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Allison Aiello

  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Life-course socioeconomic determinants of infectious diseases; Individual and neighborhood-level social factors and infections; Social stratification of immune response to infection; The link between infection and chronic disease; Hand hygiene interventions in the clinical and community setting; Antibacterial soap use and antimicrobial resistance.

Barbara Anderson

  • 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).

Toni Antonucci

  • 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.

Jennifer Barber

  • Assistant Professor of Sociology
  • Research Assistant Professor, Population Studies Center
  • Research Assistnat 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.

Rebecca M. Blank

  • Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy
  • Professor, Economics
  • Co-Director, National Poverty Center
  • Interests include: Poverty policy.

John Bound

  • 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.

Daniel G. Brown

  • Associate Professor, Ecosystem Management, School of Natural Resources & Environment
  • Interests include: Research focuses on linking observable landscape patterns, obtained through remote sensing, ecological mapping, and digital terrain analysis, with ecological and social processes; specific projects focus on the interacting social and ecological aspects of land use and cover change in rural and peri-urban environments using geostatistical and agent-based models and biotic and abiotic interactions at the alpine treeline ecotone.

Bunyan I. Bryant

  • Professor, Environmental Justice, School of Natural Resources & Environment
  • Professor, Urban Planning
  • Interests include: Environmental justice, participatory research.

Sarah A. Burgard

  • Assistant Professor, Sociology
  • Research Assistant Professor, Population Studies, Institute for Social Research
  • Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Focuses on the way systems of stratification and inequality impact the health of people and populations; studying racial/ethnic and gender-based disparities in working conditions and the reciprocal causal relationships between occupational careers and health; examining the health-related consequences and causes of involuntary job loss; perceived job insecurity; and nonstandard employment contracts in the United States; examining the effects of racial/ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic inequality on maternal and child health in Brazil and South Africa.

Cleopatra Caldwell

  • 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.

Anthony Chen

  • 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.

Paul N. Courant

  • Professor, Economics
  • Professor, School 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.

Sandra K. Danziger

  • 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.

Jorge Delva

  • Associate 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.

Jacquelynne Eccles

  • 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.

Gary L. Freed

  • 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.

Thomas E. Fricke

  • 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.

Sheila Gahagan

  • Clincial Professor, Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases
  • Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth & Development
  • Interests include: Focus on the role of breast feeding; home visiting and day care in modifying and moderating risk for obesity and other common health problems; cultural factors and their role in health behavior; studied how culture influences physician-patient communication; Hispanic, Native American and African American patient populations.

Arline T. Geronimus

  • Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
  • Research Professor, Population Studies Center
  • Interests include: Effects of poverty and institutionalized discrimination on health.

John Greden

  • 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).

Myron Gutmann

  • 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.

Mary N. Haan

  • Professor, Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Type II diabetes and dementia in older minorities, aging, women's health.

Sioban D. Harlow

  • Professor, Epidemiology
  • Associate Director, International Institute
  • Director, Advanced Study Center
  • Interests include: Women's health with a focus on occupational health, globalization and health.

William Herman

  • Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Professor, MEND
  • Professor, Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Economics of diabetes.

James S. Jackson

  • 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.

Timothy R.B. Johnson

  • 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.

Rachel Kaplan

  • 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.

Dan Keating

  • Director, Center for Human Growth and Development
  • Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
  • Professor, Psychology
  • Professor, Psychiatry
  • Professor, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
  • Interests include: Analyses of longitudinal datasets to study population outcomes of developmental health with regard to how those patterns may be explained by underlying developmental mechanisms, some of which are conducted collaboratively as a principal investigator on teh NICHD Study fo Early Child Care and Youth Development; basic processes in adolescent cognitive and brain development, basic processes in adolescent cognitive and brain development, including planned neurocognitive studies of prefrontal development; and a community-based longitudinal study on the factors that influence high school girls' engagement with the participation in mathematics and science in and beyond high school.

Gerald Keeler

  • 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.

Douglas S. Kelbaugh

  • Dean, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
  • Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
  • Interests include: New urbanism.

James Koopman

  • Professor, Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Research focus is on promoting a science of infection transmission systems.

Ziad Kronfol

  • Associate Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry
  • Interests include: Psychoneuroimmunology; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Cytokines and mental health; Mind-body interactions.

Kenneth M. Langa

  • Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research
  • Interests include: Health economics, caregiving.

Felicia LeClere

  • 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.

Jonathan Levine

  • Associate Professor, Urban Planning
  • Academic Program Chair, Urban Planning
  • Interests include: Transportation and land use planning.

Betsy Lozoff

  • Professor, Child Behavioral Health
  • Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
  • Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
  • Interests include: Nutrition and development.

Robert Marans

  • 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.

Howard Markel

  • 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.

Gregory B. Markus

  • Professor, Political Science
  • Research Professor, Center for Political Studies
  • Interests include: Cause and consequences of civic engagement, community service.

Catherine G. McLaughlin

  • Professor, Health Management and Policy
  • Director, Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured
  • Interests include: Health care financing, the uninsured.

Jonathan Metzl

  • Assistant Professor, Psychology and Women's Studies
  • Director, Program in Culture, Helath and Medicine
  • Interests include: Pharmaceutical advertisements; history of medicine; gender and health; interdisciplinary issues.

Paul Mohai

  • 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.

Hal Morgenstern

  • Professor and Chair, Epidemiology
  • Professor of 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.

Lewis Morgenstern

  • 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.

Harold W. Neighbors

  • 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.

Randolph M. Nesse

  • 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.

Jerome Nriagu

  • 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.

Edith A. Parker

  • Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
  • Associate Dean, School of Public Health
  • Interests include: Design, Implementation, and evaluation of community-based interventions to improve health outcomes.

Richard H. Price

  • 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.

Barry G. Rabe

  • Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
  • Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
  • Interests include: Environmental politics and policy.

Thomas G. Robins

  • Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
  • Professor, Environmental Health Services
  • Interests include: Environmental and occupational exposures and health.

Arnold J. Sameroff

  • 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.

Amy Schulz

  • Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
  • Research Associate Professor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
  • Associate Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
  • Interests include: Social factors related to women's mental and physical health.

Kristine A. Siefert

  • 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.

MaryFran Sowers

  • Professor, Epidemiology
  • Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Professor, Obstetics & Gynecology
  • Research Professor, Reproductive Sciences Program
  • Interests include: Perimenopause, bone and arthritis in African Americans.

Howard Stein

  • Visiting Professor, Afro-American and African Studies
  • Visiting Professor, Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Generate indicators on health and development with a focus on Africa.

Michael Spencer

  • Associate Professor, School of Social Work
  • Interests include: Race, poverty, and mental health.

Abigail J. Stewart

  • Agnes Inglis Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
  • Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
  • Interests include: Women's lives, personality, and adaptation to change.

Beverly Strassmann

  • 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.

Vic Strecher

  • Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
  • professor, Health Behavior, Family Medicine
  • Associate Director, UM Cancer Center
  • 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.

Jose Tapia Granados

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
  • Assistant Research Scientist, School of Social Work
  • 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.

Dorceta Taylor

  • Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment
  • Associate Professor, CAAS
  • Interests include: Environmental inequality, leisure behavior, environmental sociology.

Richard M. Tolman

  • Professor, School of Social Work
  • Interests include: Violence and victimization.

Antonia M. Villarruel

  • Associate 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.

John M. Wallace

  • Visiting Associate Professor II, School of Social Work
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Sociology
  • Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center
  • Interests include: Epidemiology, etiology, and prevention of a variety of adolescent problem behaviors.

Caroline Wang

  • Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
  • Interests include: Participatory and community-based approaches to public health.

Kenneth Warner

  • Professor, 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.

David R. Weir

  • 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.

Yu Xie

  • Professor, Sociology & 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.

Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
  • Chair, Health Behavior and Health Education
  • Professor, Psychology
  • Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development
  • Director, Prevention Research Center of Michigan
  • Interests include: Community health and violence.

Robert Zucker

  • 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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