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Steven Heeringa
Funded Research:
Casey Texas and Michigan Foster Care Alumni Studies (Casey Family Program Foundation)
Extension of "Assessing and Improving Cognitive Measurement in the HRS" (NIA)
Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)
HRS Minority Sample Expansion Competitive Revision (F014462) (NIA)
Mental Health Burden Study (NIMH)
Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) (NCRR)
Modifiable Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Behaviors in the US Army (NIMH)
National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research (NC-DMHR) (NIMH)
National Survey of American Life (NIMH)
National Trends in Brain Health: a Follow-Up Study of CIND and Dementia in the US (NIA)
Supplement to Casey Texas Foster Care Alumni Study (Casey Family Program Foundation)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Senior Research Scientist, Survey Research Center.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dr. Heeringa has contributed as a consulting statistician to a number of international research programs and ongoing survey data collection projects, including the PSID, the Health and Retirement Study, the Monitoring the Future Study, the National Study of American Life, and the South African Stress and Health Study. Dr. Heeringa is also the Director of the Survey Research Center’s Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques.
Recent Publications
Books
Heeringa, Steven, Brady T. West, and Patricia A. Berglund. 2010. Applied survey data analysis. Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis. Abstract.
Kalton, Graham, and Steven Heeringa. 2003. Leslie Kish : selected papers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.
Journal Articles
Heeringa, Steven. 2012. "Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys." Public Opinion Quarterly, 76(1): 190-192.
Plassman, B.L., Kenneth M. Langa, R. McCammon, Gwenith Fisher, G. Potter, James Burke, D. Steffens, N. Foster, B. Giordani, F. Unverzagt, K. Welsh-Bohmer, Steven Heeringa, David Weir, and R. Wallace. 2011. "Incidence of Dementia and Cognitive Impairment, Not Dementia in the United States." Annals of Neurology, 70(3): 418-426. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Ylitalo, K.R., M. Sowers, and Steven Heeringa. 2011. "Peripheral Vascular Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy in Individuals With Cardiometabolic Clustering and Obesity National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2004." Diabetes Care, 34(7): 1642-1647. DOI. Abstract.
Brookmeyer, R., D.A. Evans, L. Hebert, Kenneth M. Langa, Steven Heeringa, B.L. Plassman, and W.A. Kukull. 2011. "National estimates of the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in the United States." Alzheimers & Dementia, 7(1): 61-73. PMCID: PMC3052294. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
McLaughlin, S.J., C.M. Connell, Steven Heeringa, Lydia W. Li, and J.S. Roberts. 2010. "Successful Aging in the United States: Prevalence Estimates From a National Sample of Older Adults." Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 65(2): 216-226. PMCID: PMC2981444. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Herman, A.A., D.J. Stein, S. Seedat, Steven Heeringa, H. Moomal, and David R. Williams. 2009. "The South African Stress and Health (SASH) study: 12-month and lifetime prevalence of common mental disorders." SAMJ South African Medical Journal, 99(5): 339-344. Abstract. Local Access.
Kessler, R.C., S. Avenevoli, C. Jane, J.G. Green, M.J. Gruber, Steven Heeringa, K.R. Merikangas, B.E. Pennell, N.A. Sampson, and A.M. Zaslavsky. 2009. "National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A): II. Overview and Design." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(4): 380-385. PMCID: PMC2718678. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Seedat, S., D.J. Stein, P.B. Jackson, Steven Heeringa, David R. Williams, and Lora Myers. 2009. "Life stress and mental disorders in the South African Stress and Health study." Samj South African Medical Journal, 99(5): 375-382. Abstract. Local Access.