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)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan.
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., Gilbert C. Gee, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2009. "Ethnic Differences in Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms: Disadvantage in Family Background, High School Experiences, and Adult Characteristics." Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 50(1): 82-98. Licensed Access.
Bingenheimer, Jeffrey, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2009. "Behavioral Mechanisms in HIV Epidemiology and Prevention: Past, Present, and Future Roles." Studies in Family Planning, 40(3): 187-204. Licensed Access.
Kaestner, Robert, Jay Pearson, Danya Keene, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2009. "Stress, Allostatic Load, and Health of Mexican Immigrants." Social Science Quarterly, 90(5): 1089-1111. DOI:10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00648.x. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Walsemann, Katrina M., Geronimus, Arline T., and G.C. Gee. 2008. "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. DOI:10.1177/0164027507311149. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Geronimus, Arline T., Danya Keene , Margaret Hicken, and John Bound. 2007. "Black -White Differences in Age Trajectories of Hypertension Prevalence among Adult Women and Men, 1999-2002." Ethnicity and Disease, 17(1): 40-48. Licensed Access.
Kaufman, J.S., Geronimus, Arline T., and Sherman James. 2007. "Faulty interpretation of observed racial disparity in recurrent preterm birth." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 197(3): 327-327. DOI:10.1016/j.ajog.2007.04.040. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Geronimus, Arline T., Margaret Hicken, Danya Keene , and John Bound. 2006. ""Weathering" and age-patterns of allostatic load scores among Blacks and Whites in the United States." American Journal of Public Health, 96: 826-833. PMCID:PMC1470581. DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2004.060749. Licensed Access.
Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, and Maureen G. Phipps. 2006. "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. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.04.006. Licensed Access.
Geronimus, Arline T., Cynthia Colen, Tara P. Shochet, Lori Barer Ingber, and Sherman James. 2006. "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.
Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, and Sherman James. 2006. "Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black–White Disparities in Infant Birthweight." American Journal of Public Health, 96(11): 2032-2039. PMCID:PMC1751798. DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2005.076547. Public Access.
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New Publications
Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"
Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report
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