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Arline T. Geronimus
Funded Research:
Exploring the Import of Health-Related Residential Mobility to Local Area 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)
Urban Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations (Coverage Research Initiative) (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center.
Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education.
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
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. Local Access.
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.
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. Local Access.
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. 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. Local 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. PMCID: PMC3001634. DOI. Local 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. Abstract. Licensed Access.
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. PMCID: PMC2761954. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Walsemann, Katrina M., Arline T. Geronimus, 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. Abstract. Local Access.