In this recent publication, David Rigby, Mike Esposito, Hedy Lee, David C. Van Riper, Margaret T. Hicken, and Stephen A . Berrey present a new national data set of historical sundown towns linked to contemporary spatial information.
A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis
At the 2024 GSA annual meeting, Dr. Kayla Fike presented a poster on “A Life Course Approach to Neighborhood Segregation and Health among Black and White Americans”
At the 2024 IAPHS annual meeting, Dominique Sylvers won the poster award for her poster “Investigating Segregated Education & Trajectories of Muscle Strength among Black Middle and Older Adults by Gender”
In this recent publication, Margaret T. Hicken, John Dou, Kiarri N. Kershaw, Yongmei Liu, Anjum Hajat, and Kelly M. Bakulski use the MESA study to suggest that neighborhood social context may be associated with an underlying biological age acceleration at the epigenomic level.
Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation and Monocyte DNA Methylation Age Acceleration
What’s one common misconception about your area of research that you’d like to dispel? This research is about going deeper and combining a wealth of knowledge to understand and identify the root of the population health disparities we already know about.
In this recent publication, Margaret T. Hicken, Devon Payne-Sturges, and Ember McCoy build on recent discussions in the epidemiology and environmental epidemiology literature more specifically, to provide a detailed discussion of the meaning of race, the race variables, and the cultural and structural racism that some argue are proxied by race variables.
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