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Research Professor position in international family demography, PSC/SRC
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Elisha Renne awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for African studies
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Jay Pearson
Kellogg Health Scholar, Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dr. Pearson conducts research within the area of social epidemiology. Other research interests include childhood chronic diseases and Caribbean-American health.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
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., 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.
Pearson, Jay. 2008. "Can't Buy Me Whiteness: New Lessons from the Titanic on Race, Ethnicity, and Health." DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race , 5(1): 27-47. Abstract.