Founders
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Lucie Kalousová
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Health and Society and Sociology
Research interests examine how the distribution of socioeconomic resources shapes population health and health disparities in middle- to high-income countries, with a focus on when social policies are most effective at reducing these inequalities. -
Katherine Wen
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Health and Society and Public Policy Studies
Research interests include the impact of public policy outcomes and healthcare utilization, with a particular focus on infectious disease and the health of older
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Rachel Donnelly
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Research interests include social determinants of health across the life course, with a focus on stress, work, family relationships, and how intersecting inequalities by gender, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity shape mental and physical health outcomes.
Affiliated Members
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Laura M. Carpenter
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research interests include gender, sexuality, and health across the life course, with particular attention to how cultural beliefs shape sexual experiences and how individual biographies are shaped by broader historical processes. -
Mark Chin
Assistant Professor
Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations
Research interests include school integration, school choice, and racial bias in education, with a focus on how schooling shapes students’ racial attitudes, prosocial behaviors, and equity-aligned sociopolitical preferences, driven by a commitment to understanding how schools can reduce outgroup prejudice and promote social equity. -
Taylor Harman
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Anthropology
Research interests center on human biology, physiology, and anthropology to examine population-level adaptations to high-altitude environments, combining physiological and ethnographic approaches, with a broader goal of advancing understanding of human health within an evolutionary framework. -
Martha Weare Myers Jones
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Health and Society
Research interests include applied economics and public policy, drawing on labor markets, health and injury outcomes, industry employment patterns, taxation, and demographic trends. -
Christopher A. Julian
Post-doctoral Scholar
Department of Medicine, Health, and Society
Research interests include family demography, sexuality and gender, and survey methodology. -
Monica Keith
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Research interests include using a biosocial framework integrating health, socioecological, and genetic data to study health disparities across the life course, with a focus on maternal and reproductive health, child growth and nutrition, cardiometabolic disease risk, and environmental and climate-related health exposures. -
Zheng (Noah) Lian
PhD Student
Department of SociologyResearch interests include medical sociology, aging and the life course, and AI and society.
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Blake Powell
Doctoral Student
Department of Sociology
Research interests include social determinants of health and health disparities throughout the life course, with a particular interest in mental health, chronic disease, and the roles of policy contexts and social networks. -
Anyah Prasad
Post-doctoral Scholar
Department of Medicine, Health and Society
Research interests include the the effect of social stress on subjective age, biological age, and healthy longevity; social networks and cognitive health; mindbody behavioral interventions for positive aging. -
Clifford Ross
Post-doctoral Researcher
Department of Medicine, Health, & Society and Sociology
Research interests include the unique ways in which health disparities are socially patterned throughout the life course and how institutional factors may influence the relationship between social environments and health. -
Emmy Schuler
Qualitative Research Specialist (HEAL Project)
Department of Medicine, Health, and Society
Research interests include aging and the life course, life course transitions, and later-life health disparities. -
Matthew Tarizzo
Ph.D. Student
Department of Sociology
Research interests include examining migrant incorporation and mobility in the United States by comparing political contexts, labor markets, and communities, with a focus on how space and time shape educational attainment, health outcomes, and occupational mobility among immigrant and second-generation populations. -
Leping Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Sociology
Research interests focus on aging and the life course, health, social networks, and inequality, examining how social connectedness shapes mental and cognitive health outcomes among older adults in the United States and China. -
Zhe Zhang
Ph.D. Student
Department of Sociology
Research interests include the social determinants of health and health disparities across the life course, with particular attention to social relationships and networks, stress and adversity, and social and political contexts shaping mental health and well-being.