Population Health
Population health disparities reflect systemic inequality and have substantial human and financial costs. PRC faculty use a life-course understanding of biopsychosocial pathways linking demographic and social contexts to health and mortality to identify and systematically address population health challenges. Demographic and social factors inform efforts to reduce health disparities and advance population health.
Researchers are leading pioneering work on the changing impact of socioeconomic status on health and mortality across demographic groups. They are leaders in developing life-course frameworks to understand origins of disparities and in identifying the biopsychosocial mechanisms through which demographic disparities in health outcomes operate. They are creating novel approaches to study economic development and health and to consider how health care and population health are linked.
Area Projects
Conference Series on Aging in the Americas: United States and Mexico
Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Angel
Funded by: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Longitudinal Study of Mexican American Elderly Health
Principal Investigator: Ronald Angel
Additional Investigators: Jacqueline Angel, Co-Investigator; Kyriakos Markides, parent project PI, University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston
Funded by: National Institute on Aging
Biopsychosocial Pathways Linking Discrimination and Adolescent Health
Principal Investigator: Aprile Benner
Funded by: National Institues of Health
Early Childhood Health Among Latinos/as
Principal Investigator: Robert Crosnoe
Funded by: National Institutes of Health
Social Networks and Well-Being in Late Life: A Study of Daily Mechanisms
Principal Investigator: Karen Fingerman
Additional Investigators: David Schnyer and Debra Umberson, Co-Investigators
Funded by: National Institute on Aging
Fortune’s Favor: Implications of Behavioral Genetic Research for Distributive and Retributive Justice
Principal Investigator: Kathryn Paige Harden
Funded by: Templeton Foundation
Network on Life Course Health, Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America
Principal Investigator: Mark Hayward
Additonal Investigators: James House, parent project PI, University of Michigan; Eileen Crimmins, University of Southern California, Co-Principal Investigator; and Robert Hummer, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Co-Principal Investigator
Funded by: National Institute of Aging
Education, Early Life Divisions, and Trends in Dementia
Principal Investigator: Mark Hayward
Funded by: NIH
USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health (Supplement)
Principal Investigator: Mark Hayward
Funded by: USC
Socio-Cultural Stress Profiles, Stress Responses, and Academic and Health Outcomes in Mexican American Adolescents
Principal Investigator: Su Yeong Kim
Co- Principal Investigator - Deborah Parra-Medina
Funded by: Russell Sage Foundation
Socio-cultural Stress Profiles, Stress Responses, and Academic and Health Outcomes in Mexican American Adolescents
Principal Investigator: Su Yeong Kim
Funded by: Sage Foundation
The Development of Teaching and Social Learning Across Cultures
Principal Investigator: Cristine Legare
Funded by: NSF
Ramp-Up Phase: The Consequences of Formal Education for Science and Religion
Principal Investigator: Cristine Legare
Funded by: The Issachar Fund
The Impact of Ritual on Healthcare Provider Behavior in Bihar, India
Principal Investigator: Cristine Legare
Funded by: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Nonprofits, Civic Infrastructure, and the Health and Well-Being of Individuals and Communities
Principal Investigator: Pamela Paxton
Funded by: Corporation for National and Community Service
The Influence of Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Discrimination for the Mental Health of LGB Youth
Principal Investigator / Mentor: Stephen Russell
Additional Investigator / Mentee: Allen Mallory
Funded by: National Institutes of Health
Doctoral Dissertation: Therapeutic Alternatives in the Criminal Courts
Principal Investigator: Becky Pettit
Co-Principal Investigator: Mary Stitt
Funded by: NSF
Doctoral Dissertation Research: How Low-Level Misdemeanor Courts Regulate Populations
Principal Investigator: Becky Pettit
Co-Principal Investigator: Ilya Slavinski
Funded by: NSF
The Impact of Romantic Relationships on the Health of Vulnerable Populations During the Transition to Adulthood
Principal Investigator: Sara Mernitz
Co-Principal Investigator: Stephen Russell
Funded by: NICHD
Cultivating Connections: An Innovative Approach to Building the Social Supports of Formerly Homeless Youth
Principal Investigator: Stephen Russell
Funded by: LifeWorks Foundation
Identity Stress and Health in Three Cohorts of LGB Individuals
Principal Investigator: Stephen Russell
Additional Investigators: Ilan Meyer, parent project PI, University of California Los Angeles
Funded by: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Risk Behaviors in Preadolescent Boys
Principal Investigator: Delida Sanchez
Additional Investigators: Robert Crosnoe, Co-Investigator and Tiffany Whittaker, Co-Investigator
Funded by: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Jacobs Advanced Research Fellowship
Principal Investigator: Elliot Tucker-Drob
Funded by: Jacobs Foundation (Switzerland)
Evaluating Longitudinal Changes in the Human Structural Connectome in Relation to Cognitive Aging
Principal Investigator: Elliot Tucker-Drob
Funded by: National Institutes of Health
Cortisol, Socioeconomic Status, and Genetic Influences on Cognitive Development
Principal Investigator: Elliot Tucker-Drob
Additional Investigators: Paige Harden, Co-Investigator
Funded by: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Identifying Genomic Signatures of Evolutionary and Cultural Change in Native Americans
Principal Investigator: Deborah Bolnick
Co-Principal Investigator: Debra Umberson, Jennifer Raff
Funded by: NSF
Contextualizing Diseases of Despair: Individual, Family, and State Factors (Doctoral Dissertation Research)
Principal Investigator / Mentor: Debra Umberson
Additional Investigator / Mentee: Rachel Donnelly
Funded by: National Science Foundation
Race/Ethnic Differences in Life Course Exposure to Death: Consequences for Health
Principal Investigator: Deb Umberson
Funded by: National Institutes of Health
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Braking the ‘Grass’ Ceiling: Women, Race, and Class in the U.S. Legal Cannabis Industry
Principal Investigator: Christine Williams
Co-Principal Investigator: Katie Rogers
Funded by: NSF
Can Beliefs About Change Improve Adolescent Mental Health?
Principal Investigator: David Yeager
Funded by: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
