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”
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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
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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At the 2022 University of Michigan Epidemiology Poster Session, Victoria Fisher presented preliminary results from her study of the association between residential racial segregation and accelerated epigenetic aging.
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In this recent publication, Margaret T. Hicken, Lewis Miles, Solome Haile, and Michael Esposito argue that the “slow violence” of environmental racism is linked to other forms of racial violence that have been enacted throughout history. This paper lays out many of the important themes of the research agenda of the Landscapes of Structural Racism and Health Lab:
“The first step in attempting to make lasting change toward equity is to develop an empirical literature that tests this general framework, linking history to the present through the common themes of cultural racism and the contemporaneous features of structural racism.”
Read more about Linking History to Contemporary State-Sanctioned Slow Violence