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MENTORS
- Director, Center for Russian & East European Studies
- Professor of Sociology
- Research Professor, Population Studies Center
- Interests include: The relationship between social change and demographic change (focusing on the former Soviet Union and China).
- Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology
- Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center
- Interests include: Psychosocial factors influencing health and well-being, aging.
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center
- Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center
- Interests include: Intergenerational processes in families in the U.S. and Nepal; focuses on intergenerational influences on childbearing behavior and the consequences of unwanted childbearing for children; focuses on the relationships between social change and family formation attitudes and behavior in Nepal.
- Professor, Economics
- Research Professor, Population Studies
- Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center
- Interests include: Economic, demographic and policy influences on the labor force participation and health status.
- Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Natural Resources, School of Natural Resources and Environment
- Professor, Urban Planning
- Interests include: Environmental justice, participatory research.
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
- Co-Associate Director, Program for Research on Black Americans
- Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics
- Interests include: Social relationships and social supports within African American communities; mental health consequences of adolescent childbearing within an intergenerational family context; improving health through strengthening father-son relationships; the family support functions of Black churches.
- Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy
- Assistant Professor, Sociology
- Interests include: Social inequality, public policy, employment, and American political development; especially intersted in understanding how business interests have shaped the political economy of regulation.
- A. F. Thurnau Professor of Economics
- H T Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy
- Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center
- Interests include: State and local economic development; effects of tax policies; school finance; gender differences in wages; race discrimination in housing markets.
- Professor, School of Social Work
- Research Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
- Director, Michigan Program on Poverty & Social Welfare Policy
- Interests include: Impact of public programs on the well-being of families.
- Professor, School of Social Work
- Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
- Interests include: Using multi-level statistical techniques to study the effect, and trends, of individual risk and protective factors on substance use and childhood obesity while taking into account neighborhood and other contextual level factors with a particular focus on racial and ethnic differences.
- Professor, Psychology
- Professor, Education
- Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics
- Research Professor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
- Interests include: Family and school influences on development; development in high risk settings; development of self-esteem, activity preferences, and task choice; adolescent development; identity formation; transition into adulthood; biosocial influences and development; gender role development; and role of ethnicity in development and socialization.
- Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of General Pediatrics and Community Health
- Director, Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Unit
- Professor, Pediatics and Communicable Diseases
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Interests include: Child health.
- Director, Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life
- Professor, Anthropology
- Research Professor, Population Studies
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center
- Interests include: Social transformations in family and work; ethnography.
- Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
- Research Professor, Population Studies Center
- Interests include: Effects of poverty and institutionalized discrimination on health.
- Executive Director, UM Depression Center
- Professor, Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciencs
- Research Professor, Molecular & Behavioral Neurosciences Institute
- Interests include: Relationship of neuroendocrine dysregulation to mood disorders; recurrent depression and extended maintenance treatment and medications; short- and long-term effects of different sequences of medication and/or psychotherapy for the treatment of unipolar depressions resistant; longitudinal course of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
- Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research
- Professor, Population Studies
- Professor, History
- Interests include: Historical demography and population-environment relationships, with a focus on Europe and the Americas during the past four centuries. His current research focuses on the relationship between population and environment in the Great Plains of the U.S., and on the history of the U.S. Hispanic population.
- Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology
- Professor of Internal Medicine
- Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine
- Director, Geriatrics Center and Institute of Gerontology Medical School
- Interests include: Neuroendocrine regulation of metabolism in aging and in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and regulation of autonomic nervous system function
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Director, International Institute
- Director, Advanced Study Center
- Interests include: Women's health with a focus on occupational health, globalization and health.
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, MEND
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Interests include: Economics of diabetes.
- Chair, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Interests include: encompass clinical syndromes such as idiopathaic environmental intolerances (chemical sensitivities) and emerging children's environmental health issues such as nenonatal exposure to phthalates.
- Daniel Katz Distinguished Professor of Psychology
- Director, Program for Research on Black Americans
- Director, Academic Programs, Center Afro-American & African Studies
- Director, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
- Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology
- Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
- Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics
- Interests include: Adult development, aging, health, mental health and intergenerational relations among black Americans.
- Professor, Diseases of Women & Children
- Chair and Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Professor, Women's Studies
- Research Professor, Center for Human Growth & Development
- Interests include: active involvement in teaching activities in Africa with numerous visits to Ghana to assist in the training of physicians and midwives in the areas of fetal assessment, perinatal asphyxia, clinical aspects of fetal behavior and maternal mortality. Other clinical interests include prenatal care and women's health.
- Professor, Psychology
- Professor, School of Natural Resources & Environment
- Interests include: Central to the research program is a conceptual framework that views humans as information-based organisms who want to know, want to explore, and want to take action. Trying to understand the role the environment plays in helping people become more reasonable, effective, and psychologically healthy has taken the research in many directions.
- Professor, Psychology
- Professor, Psychiatry
- Professor, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
- My research focuses on integrating knowledge about developmental processes, population patterns in developmental health, and social factors affecting individual and population development. A major thrust of this work has been to identify the social circumstances that have an enduring impact on developmental health, and to discover the developmental mechanisms through which those social circumstances operate. A longer term goal of this line of work is to identify the key aspects of social environments that shape developmental experiences in early childhood through the adolescent transition, in ways that can be addressed at the level of policy and practice.
- Professor, Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Space Sciences
- Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor, Geological Sciences
- Interests include: The measurement and modeling of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), air pollution meteorology, whole ecosystem studies of the cycling of trace elements in the environment, exposure assessment for health studies, receptor modeling of environmental contaminants, atmospheric chemistry and deposition, and global change issues pertinent to environmental health.
- Dean, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Interests include: New urbanism.
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Interests include: Research focus is on promoting a science of infection transmission systems.
- Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
- Professor of Economics
- Interests include: Interaction of economics and demography in developing countries links between education, labor markets, and income inequality
- Associate Research Scientist, Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research
- Associate Research Scientist, Center for Population Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research
- Interests include: Health- and well-being-related issues in sociology, including the role of residential segregation in explaining mortality differentials; the role of neighborhoods in injury mortality; the relationship between geographic income and occupational inequality in differential morbidity among adult men, and the effects of family migration on women's earnings.
- Professor, Urban Planning
- Academic Program Chair, Urban Planning
- Interests include: Transportation and land use planning.
- Professor, Child Behavioral Health
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
- Interests include: Nutrition and development.
- Professor Emeritus, Architecture and Urban Planning
- Research Professor Emeritus, Survey Research Center
- Interests include: The Detroit Area Study, conducted annually for nearly 50 years, the study surveys Detroit metro-area residents to produce high-quality data that assist in public policy formation, support scholarly research, and train students.
- Professor, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
- Director, Center for the History of Medicine
- George E Wantz Professor, History of Medicine
- Interests include: History of health sciences, immigration, ethnicity.
- Professor, Political Science
- Research Professor, Center for Political Studies
- Interests include: Cause and consequences of civic engagement, community service.
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Director, Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured
- Interests include: Health care financing, the uninsured.
- Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Women's Studies
- Assistant Research Scientist, Insitute for Research on Women and Gender
- Interests include: Pharmaceutical advertisements; history of medicine; gender and health; interdisciplinary issues.
- Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research
- Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
- Interests include: Public opinion and the environment, environmental justice, and influences on environmental policy making.
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Interests include: Musculoskeletal conditions, cancers, neuropsychiatric disorders, nonintentional injuries, cardiovascular disease, psychosocial aspects of disease, occupational and environmental health, research methods, and access to and quality of health care.
- Professor, Neurology
- Professor, Neurosurgery
- Professor, Emergency Medicine
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Interests include: Brain Attach Surveillance in Courpus Christi (BASIC) project, an NIH funded surveillance project examining the social context of stroke in Mexican Americans.
- Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
- Adjunct Research Scientist, Program for Research on Black Americans
- Associate Director, Research Training in the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
- Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
- Interests include: African-American mental health, community needs assessment.
- Professor, Psychiatry
- Professor, Psychology
- Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center
- Director, ISR Evolution and Human Adaptation Program
- Interests include: Evolution and behavior.
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development
- Interests include: Research activities in recent years include: natural and anthropogenic sources of trace metals at the local, regional and global scales; potential impacts of global change on metal cycles; processes and mechanisms of cycling of pollutants (especially heavy metals) in air, water and soil leading to human exposure; biomarkers of exposure and effects of metals from analysis of body fluid and tissue samples; trace metals in human oral environment; water quality issues in the Great Lakes; behavior of metal ions and oxyanions in water treatment systems; environmental risk factors for asthma; environmental justice within the community-based research framework; lead pollution and lead poisoning in communities in various parts of the world; chemistry of arsenic in groundwater; dermal and carcinogenic effects of exposure to arsenic in drinking water.
- Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Interests include: Cardiovascular mechanisms for air pollution health effects; climate change, weather and health; Environmental equity and susceptible populations; envrionmental exposure assessment; air pollution, temperature and health in Latin American cities.
- Professor, Psychology
- Professor, Business Administration
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center
- Professor, Organizational Studies
- Director, Michigan Prevention Research Center
- Interests include: Impact of employment and economic change on individuals and their families.
- Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
- Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
- Interests include: Environmental politics and policy.
- Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
- Professor, Environmental Health Services
- Interests include: Environmental and occupational exposures and health.
- Professor, Psychology
- Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
- Director, Center on Development and Mental Health
- Interests include: Effects of family, community, school and peer group on social-emotional and academic success.
- Professor, School of Social Work
- Director, Research Center on Poverty, Risk, and Mental Health
- Interests include: Social and environmental factors affecting the health and mental health of low-income women and children.
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Obstetics & Gynecology
- Research Professor, Reproductive Sciences Program
- Interests include: Perimenopause, bone and arthritis in African Americans.
- Associate Professor, School of Social Work
- Interests include: Race, poverty, and mental health.
- Professor, Afro-American and African Studies
- Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
- Interests include: Generate indicators on health and development with a focus on Africa.
- Agnes Inglis Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
- Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
- Interests include: Women's lives, personality, and adaptation to change.
- Associate Professor, Anthropology
- Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics
- Interests include: Human behavior and evolution; reproductive biology -- especially evolution of menstruation; use of molecular genetic data to answer questions about evolution and human culture, including kinship systems; cross-cultural comparisons of religions; life history theory and parental investment. Field sites: The Dogon of Mali, West Africa, where she's maintained a twenty-year longitudinal study.
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, Health Media Research Laboratory
- Director, Cancer Prevention and Control
- Interests include: Evaluative research of health behavior change interventions for health promotion, disease prevention and disease management. Computer-based interactive multimedia interventions include a program for genetic counseling on BRCA1 and BRCA2 (breast cancer genes) and programs to teach women about their risks of breast cancer.
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
- Assistant Research Scientist, Survey Research Center
- Interests include: The intersections between demography, economic history, economic theory and epidemiology. He has studied the impact of economic fluctuations on mortality in Spain, Sweden and the United States, and is interested in the pathways leading from working and living conditions to changes in mortality.
- Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
- Associate Professor, CAAS
- Interests include: Environmental inequality, leisure behavior, environmental sociology.
- Professor, School of Social Work
- Interests include: Violence and victimization.
- Professor, School of Nursing
- Director, Center for Health Promotion
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Interests include: Child/Adolescent health behavior, Health Promotion with Latino Populations, and Sexual HIV Risk Reduction Interventions.
- Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Dean, School of Public Health
- Interests include: Tobacco harm reduction policy; economic implications of smoking cessation in the managed care setting; dynamic effects of tobacco control policies.
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center
- Associate Director, Survey Research Center Administration
- Interests include: Health-related quality of life; cost effectiveness; effects of health, gender, and martial status on economic well-being in retirement.
- Professor, Economics
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center
- Research Professor, Population Studies
- Interests include: Labor economics, economic demography, economic development and the economics of aging
- Professor and Associate Chair, Sociology
- Professor, Statistics
- Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
- Interests include: Social stratification and social mobility. His recent research is on factors related to recruitment into scientific professions. His other research interests include statistical methods and demographic techniques.
- Professor and Chair, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Professor, Psychology
- Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
- Director, Prevention Research Center of Michigan
- Interests include: Community health and violence.
- Director, Substance Abuse Section & Addiction Research Center (UMSARC)
- Professor, Psychology
- Professor, Psychiatry
- Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dyanmics
- Interests include: His major research focus has been the lifespan etiology of substance abuse, with a special interest in the development and clinical course of alcoholism. For many years, he has been Director of the Michigan-Michigan State University Longitudinal Study.
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