Students
Community Health Sciences (Public Health)
Uchechi Acholonu- Health Disparities, Stress and Coping, and the Association between
Psychosocial Factory and Changes in Biological Functioning
Patience Afulani
- Reproductive health, maternal and child health, nutrition.
Hector
Alcala
- Racial and ethnic disparities in health, specifically chronic disease
Catherine M. Branson
- Substance use and infectious disease in vulnerable populations,
Health applications to sexual and substance use risk reduction
- Health disparities, racial discrimination, and birth outcomes
Maria Pia
Chaparro- Association between Food Assistance Program Participation and Obesity
Mekeila Co- Health disparities and its relation to HIV
Hsin-Chieh
Chang- Health demography, marriage migration, social determinants of health and well-being among women and children
Elinam Dellor- Mental health
and behavioral consequences of childhood stress; effect of child
abuse and neglect on high-risk behaviors among adolescents
- Labor, Migration, Sexual Politics, Intersectionality
- Racial and ethnic health disparities; residential segregation
Helene Chokron Garneau
- Positive youth development; interaction between social structures, environmental factors, social networks to influence behaviors of substance abuse, violence, and crime
- Health Disparities, Life Course, Neighborhood Health Effects, Multigenerational households, and Intergenerational Stress Proliferation
- Couple level decision making surrounding abortion and reproductive health; Women's empowerment and autonomy
Brent
Langellier- Health of children based on race/ethnicity/gender deferantial and the status of children from imigrant population
- Social determinants, neighborhood/community factors, and youth violence
Brittany Morey- Health disparities, Enviornmental Justice (especially how it impacts sub-populations in urban areas)
-Social-Structural Determinants of Mental Health, Mental Health Services and Policies
Tabashir Sadegh-Nobari
- The impact that early life experiences can have on health and socioeconomic outcomes later in life
Goleen Samari- Migration, Reproductive Health, and Adolescent and Young Adult Reproductive Decision-Making
Mienah Zulfacar Sharif
- Chronic disease prevention, nutrition and food security among immigrant populations with an emphasis on the family structure as well as gender issues.
- The reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity as health outcome, and facility delivery and skilled birth attendants in low resource settings, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jacqueline
Torres- Mental health, immigration
Kiyomi Tsuyuki- HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, gender, and maternal and child health
- Social determinants of health, food environment and childhood obesity, substance abuse
Economics (Letters and Sciences)
Matthew Baird- Labor Economics, Immigration, Economics of Education
Mary Ann
Bronson- Labor Economics, Development Economics, Economic History
- Urban Economics and Zoning, Macroeconomics, Public Economics
Yi Chen- Health economics and Labor economics; especially the Inter-Generational Transfer of Inequality
- Development Economics, Labor Economics
Katherine Eriksson- Labor economics, Africa, and applied econometrics
- Health Economics, Public Finance, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
- Political Economy, Public Finance and Economic History
Ziyan Huang- Intergenerational relationship in rural area, especially China
Seth Kerstein- Applied Microeconomics, Economic Demography, Health, Development, Labor
Robert Kurtzman- Empirical Macroeconomics, Finance, Banking, and Corporate Finance
Carolina Mejia- Household risk, insurance and insurance markets
Kenneth Mirkin
- Applied Theory, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
- Economic Development and Health Economics
- Early Childhood Development
- Labor Economics and Development Economics
- Labor Economics and Development Economics
- Economic History, Environmental Economics, Urban Migration
Veronica Sovero
- Development Economics
Rosanna Smart- Applied Microeconomics: Labor, Public Finance, Health, Economics of Aging
- Health Economics, Development Economics
Epidemiology (Letters and Sciences)
- Global and Population Health
Geography (Letters and Sciences)
Chen Chen- Labor migration in China
- Statistics: Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences
- Wage inequality and trade, migration and land-use change, gender and commuting patterns
- Spatial demography, migration and immigration, regional economic development, and China
Health Services (Public Health)
- Social determinants of health affect individual health seeking behaviors.
Psychology (Letters and Sciences)
- Stress and Health, Population Health, Cancer
- Interdisciplinary Study of Human Sexual and Reproductive Health
Sociology (Letters and Sciences)
Erika Arenas- Immigration/migration, especially from Mexico
Jessica Carbino- Transition to adulthood, family and household demography
Peter Catron- International Migration, Stratification and Labor Markets
- Social stratification, demography and East Asian countries
- Social stratification, race, education
Dwight Davis- China, Environment, and Historical Demography
Rebecca DiBennardo- Sexuality, Health, and Same Sex Families
- Families, Social Stratification and Demography
- Marriage and Cohabitations, Time Allocation and Family/Work Structures and Relationships
Benjamin Jarvis- Residential Segregation, Social Stratification, and Agent-based Models
Liz Kofman– Comparative/Cross-National Perspectives of Work and Family
- Neighborhood Effects on Mental Health in Families
- Social Demography
Rennie Lee- Educational Attainment among Immigrants
Phillip S.Y.
Lu- Social Networks, Social Stratification, Sociology of Family
Tara McKay- HIV/AIDS, Sexuality, Substance Use
Amanda
Morrall- Social Stratification, Social Mobility, Race, Education, Criminal Justice
- Social Demography
- Migration and the savings behavior of households in El Salvador
Sung Shim Park- Family, Life Course and Immigration
William Rosales- Social Stratification, Demography, Gender, Race and Ethnicity
Casandra Salgado
- Immigrant Incorporation and Social Mobility
Sarah Schlabach- Stratification, Race/Ethnicity and Family
- International Migration, Race and Ethnicity
Juli Simon
Thomas- Education, Social Stratification and Mobility
Xi Song– Stratification, Social demography
- Demographic Processes such as Migration and Fertility
- Family, Gender, Sexuality, looking at how characteristics such as sexual identity and race influence men's fertility intentions and family formation desires
- Social Demography
Social Welfare
Nancy Jo
Kepple
- Population Trends of Child Maltreatment Behaviors, Ecological Factors Related to Crime, Substance Environment and Substance Use Behaviors, and Racial Disparities
- Similarities Between Neighborhood Demographic Characteristics and School Demographic Characteristics
Statistics
- Statistical Methodology in the Social Sciences
