Arline T. Geronimus

Funded Research:

Promising Practices for Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality in Michigan - A Pilot Study (Community Health Agencies, Department of)

Training in the Demography and Economics of Aging (NIA)

Social Science Training in Population Studies (NICHD)

Promising Practices for Reducing Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality in Michigan - A Pilot Study (Kellogg)

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

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

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

Hudson, Darrell, Kai Bullard, Harold Neighbors, Arline T. Geronimus, Juan Yang, and James S. Jackson. 2012. "Are benefits conferred with greater socioeconomic position undermined by racial discrimination among African American men?" Journal of Men's Health, 9(2): 127-136. DOI.

Hudson, Darrell, Harold Neighbors, Arline T. Geronimus, and James S. Jackson. 2012. "The relationship between socioeconomic position and depression among a US nationally representative sample of African Americans." Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(3): 373-381. PMCID: PMC3279642. DOI.

Keene, Danya, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2011. ""Weathering" HOPE VI: The Importance of Evaluating the Population Health Impact of Public Housing Demolition and Displacement." Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 88(3): 417-435. PMCID: PMC3126923. DOI. Abstract.

Pearson, Jay, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2011. "Race/ethnicity, Socioeconomic Characteristics, Co-ethnic Social Ties and Health: Evidence from the National Jewish Population Survey." American Journal of Public Health, 101(7): 1314–1321. PMCID: PMC3110243. DOI. Abstract.

Geronimus, Arline T., John Bound, and Cynthia Colen. 2011. "Excess black mortality in the United States and in select black or white high-poverty areas, 1980-2000." American Journal of Public Health, 101(4): 720-729. PMCID: PMC3052342. DOI. Abstract.

Keene, Danya, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2011. "Community-Based Support among African American Public Housing Residents." Journal of Urban Health, 88(1): 41-53. PMCID: PMC3042090. DOI. Abstract.

Keene, Danya, Mark Padilla, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2010. "Leaving Chicago for Iowa's "Fields of Opportunity": Community Dispossession, Rootlessness, and the Quest for Somewhere to "Be OK"." Human Organization, 69(3): 275 - 284. PMCID: PMC2964883. Abstract. Public Access.

Geronimus, Arline T., Margaret Hicken, Jay Pearson, Sarah Seashols, Kelly Brown, and Tracey Dawson Cruz. 2010. "Do US Black Women Experience Stress-Related Accelerated Biological Aging?" Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective, 21(1): 19-38. PMCID: PMC2861506. DOI. Abstract.

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. PMCID: PMC3001634. DOI. Abstract.

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. Abstract. Licensed Access.

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