DIRECTORS

George A. Kaplan, Ph.D., Director

• Professor of Epidemiology
• Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
• Director, Michigan Initiative on Inequalities in Health
• Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor of Public Health
• Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
• Interests include: Impact of social and economic policy, community and neighborhood characteristics, behavioral, social, and psychosocial factors on health and health inequalities

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Ana V. Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director

• Professor of Epidemiology
• Interests include: Social determinants of health, neighborhood health effects, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, epidemiologic methods generally, methodological issues related to the presence of multiple levels of analysis and the integration of social and biological factors in epidemiology, multilevel analysis, and health in Latin America

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James S. House, Ph.D., Co-Director

• Angus Campbell Collegiate Professor of Sociology
• Professor of Public Policy
• Director, Social Environment and Health Group and Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
• Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology
• Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology
• Interests include: Impact of social stratification and stress on physical and mental health, especially in middle and late life, and health inequalities

 

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