Arline T. Geronimus

Funded Research:

Exploring the Import of Health-Related Residential Mobility to Local Area Studies (NICHD)

Race/Ethnicity, Psychosocial and Environmental Stressors, and Telomere Length (NIH)

Urban Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations (Coverage Research Initiative) (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Geronimus’ research interests include understanding the social and biological mechanisms that mediate racial disparities in health along the full pathway from the environmental to the cellular level: cultural influences on population variation in family structure and age-at-first birth; the effects of poverty, institutionalized discrimination, and residential areas on health; the strategies used by marginalized communities to mitigate the harmful health effects of poverty and structural racism; and the perturbations public policies sometimes cause in these autonomous protections.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Walsemann, Katrina M., Geronimus, Arline T., and G.C. Gee. "Accumulating disadvantage over the life course - Evidence from a longitudinal study investigating the relationship between educational advantage in youth and health in middle age." Research on Aging, 30(2):169-199. 2008.

Geronimus, Arline T., Danya Keene, Margaret Hicken, and John Bound. "Black -White Differences in Age Trajectories of Hypertension Prevalence among Adult Women and Men, 1999-2002." Ethnicity and Disease, 17 (1): 40-48. 2007.

Kaufman, J.S., Geronimus, Arline T., and Sherman James. "Faulty interpretation of observed racial disparity in recurrent preterm birth." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 197(3):327-327. 2007.

Geronimus, Arline T., Margaret Hicken, Danya Keene, and John Bound. ""Weathering" and age-patterns of allostatic load scores among Blacks and Whites in the United States." American Journal of Public Health, 96: 826-833. 2006.

Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, and Maureen G. Phipps. "Getting a piece of the pie? The economic boom of the 1990s and declining teen birth rates in the United States." Social Science & Medicine, 63 (2006): 1531-1545. 2006.

Geronimus, Arline T., Cynthia Colen, Tara P. Shochet, Lori Barer Ingber, and Sherman James. "Urban-Rural Differences in Excess Mortality among High-Poverty Populations: Evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 17 (3): 532-558. 2006.

Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, and Sherman James. "Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black–White Disparities in Infant Birthweight." American Journal of Public Health, 96 (11): 2032-2039. 2006.

Geronimus, Arline T. "Invited commentary: Using area-based socioeconomic measures - Think conceptually, act cautiously." American Journal of Epidemiology, 164 (9): 835-840. 2006.

Geronimus, Arline T. "Teenage Childbearing as Cultural Prism." British Medical Bulletin, 69: 155-166. 2004.

Geronimus, Arline T., and J.P. Thompson. "To denigrate, ignore, or disrupt : the health impact of policy-induced breakdown of urban African American communities of support." Du Bois Review, 1(2): 247-279. 2004.

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