Professional Bio

I am a medical sociologist and demographer who researches population health dynamics, social determinants of health, and health services use across the life course. In particular, I am interested in how cohorts' socioeconomic resources and health and aging processes interact to shape trends in population health. Some of my ongoing work includes:

• Cross-national analyses of the role of cohort succession in driving improvements in older adult cognitive health
• The relationships between exposure to online health information, medical mistrust, and use of traditional health services
• Innovative uses of demographic methods to examine specific morbidity and mortality trends

Selected Publications

• Ryan-Claytor, C. (2025). Web and/or MD?: Empirically Testing the Relationships between Internet Use and Visits to Healthcare Professionals. Social Science & Medicine, 118071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118071
• Verdery, A., Ryan-Claytor, C., Smith-Greenaway, E., Sarkar, N., & Livings, M. (2024). “More than 1.2 million U.S. Children Have Lost a Family Member to Drug Overdose.” American Journal of Public Health, 114(12), 1394-1397. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307847
• Ryan-Claytor, C., & Verdery, A. (2024). “A Novel Sullivan Method Projection Framework With Application to Long COVID.” Demography, 61(2), 267–281. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11226858