Ana V. Diez-Roux, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.

Professor and Chair, Epidemiology

Director, Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities

Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health

Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Director, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program

Department of Epidemiology      
1415 Washington Heights, SPH Tower, Room 4659
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029

Office: (734) 764-5435; Fax: (734) 764-3192

E-mail: adiezrou@umich.edu

Website(s): Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities; Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health; Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Professional Summary

2009-present: Elected Institute of Medicine (IOM) Member
2007-present Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
2006-present Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
2003-2006: Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
2003- Faculty Associate, Institute For Social Research University of Michigan
1996-2002: Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
1996-2002: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
1986-89: Resident and Chief Resident, General Pediatrics, Ricardo Gutierrez Children's Hospital, Buenos Aires Argentina

Courses Taught

EPID600: Introduction to Epidemiology
EPID814: Topics in epidemiologic analysis

Education

Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1995
M.P.H., The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1991
M.D., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1985

Research Interests & Projects

Social epidemiology
Neighborhood health effects
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology
Air pollution and cardiovascular risk
Multilevel analysis
Race/ethnic disparities
Systems approaches in population health

Projects
Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities
Social and geographic predictors of heterogeneity in cardiovascular risk in African Americans
Neighborhoods and cardiovascular risk in a multiethnic cohort
The social patterning of stress, inflammation, and hemostasis
Exposure to particulate matter and atherosclerosis
Spatial methods in population health
Urban health and social patterning of health in Latin America
Psychosocial and social predictors of telomere length

Selected Publications

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Diez Roux, A.V., Ranjit, N., Jenny, N.S., Shea, S., Cushman, M., Fitzpatrick, A., Seeman, S. (2009). Race/ethnicity and telomere length. Aging Cell, 8(3), 251-257.

Auchincloss, A.H., Diez Roux, A.V., Mujahid, M.S., Shen, M., Bertoni, A.G., Carnethon, M.R. (2009). Neighborhood resources for physical activity and healthy foods and incidence of type 2 diabetes (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). Archives of Internal Medicine, 169(18), 1698-1704.

Fleisher, N.L., Diez Roux, A.V. (2008). Using directed acyclic graphs to guide analyses of neighborhood health effects: an introduction Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62(9), 842-846.

Auchincloss, A.H., Diez Roux, A.V. (2008). A new tool for epidemiology? The usefulness of dynamic agent models in understanding place effects on health. American Journal of Epidemiology, 168(1), 1-8.

Mujahid, M.S., Diez Roux, A.V., Morenoff, J.D., Raghunathan, T.E., Shea, S., Cooper, R., Ni, H. (July, 2008). Neighborhood Characteristics and Hypertension. Epidemiology, 19(4), 590-598.

Diez Roux, A.V., Auchincloss, A., Green, T.L., Raghunathan, T., Barr, R.G., Kaufman, J., Astor, B., Keeler, J. (2008). Long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter and prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). American Journal Epidemiology, 167(6), 667-75.

Auchincloss, A.H., Diez Roux, A.V., Brown, D.G., Erdmann. C.A., Bertoni, A.G. (2008). Neighborhood Resources for Physical Activity and Healthy Foods and Their Association with Insulin Resistance. Epidemiology, 19, 146-157.

Ranjit, N., Diez Roux, A.V., Shea, S., Cushman, M., Ni, H., Seeman, T. (2007). Socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity and inflammation in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Circulation, 116(21), 2383-2390.

Auchincloss, A.H., Diez Roux, A.V., Brown, D.G., Erdmann, C.A., Raghunathan, T.E. (2007). Filling the gaps: spatial interpolation of residential survey data in the estimation of neighborhood characteristics. Epidemiology, 18(4), 469-78.

Diez Roux, A.V. (2007). Integrating social and biological factors in health research: a systems view. Annals of Epidemiology, 569-74.

Professional Affiliations

American Public Health Association
Society for Epidemiologic Research