Health and Life Course
People specializing in this area
Faculty
David Baker
cognitive skills, health risk behaviors, schooling effects on health
Sarah Brothers
Illicit substance use, qualitative methods, HIV and HCV, injection drug use practices, medication-based treatment, overdose
Sarah Damaske
Life Course, Health Disparities
Jonathan Daw
biological processes, gene-environment interaction, health behaviors, transplants
Francis Dodoo
fertility
Michelle Frisco
health and well-being of young people, obesity among youth and adolescents, health disparities, mental health, the ways that schools shape young people’s lives
Corina Graif
mental health, distress
Steven A. Haas
health & aging, health disparities, adolescent mental health
Melissa A. Hardy
health & aging, health disparities, mortality, chronic illness
Derek Kreager
Life Course, Crime and Delinquency, Incarceration, Romantic and Peer Networks
Nancy Luke
sexual behavior, child nutrition, developing countries
Molly A. Martin
child obesity, family processes & child health
Stephen A. Matthews
population health, physical activity, diet & obesity
David Ramey
Crime, Deviance, and Social Control,Behavioral Health,Social Demography,Social Disparities in Population Health,Immigration/Migration,Quantitative Methods
Jeremy Staff
criminology, life course studies, and stratification
Jennifer Van Hook
immigrant health, obesity, child health
Emeritus Faculty
Duane Alwin
Life Course & Aging, Human Development, Family, Social Stratification, Education, Social Psychology, Social Change, Research Methods, Quantitative Analysis
Graduate Directors
David Baker
cognitive skills, health risk behaviors, schooling effects on health
Stephen A. Matthews
population health, physical activity, diet & obesity