Jeffrey Morenoff
Funded Research:
Community Context, Prisoner Reentry, and Post-Prison Employment (Russell Sage Foundation)
Ecometrics: New Directions for Multilevel Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences (NSF)
Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) (NCMHHD)
Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (NICHD)
Neighborhoods, Recidivism, and Employment among Returning Prisoners (Department of Justice)
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Social Consequences of Racial Residential Integration (HUD)
The Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative: A Plan for Comprehensive Evaluation (Michigan Department of Corrections)
Tools for Measuring and Analyzing Cortisol Levels in Population Studies of Health Disparities (NIDA)
Understanding Social Disparities in Health and Aging (ACL) (NIA)
Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Director, Graduate Program, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan.
Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Associate Chair, Sociology, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Dr. Morenoff’s research interests focus on neighborhood environments, crime and criminal justice, the social determinants of health, and racial/ethnic/immigrant inequality. He is currently conducting research on prisoner reentry, the social context and spatial dynamics of health and crime, and neighborhood social processes.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Clarke, Philippa J., Ailshire, Jennifer, Michael Bader, Jeffrey Morenoff, and James S. House. 2008. "Mobility disability and the urban built environment." American Journal of Epidemiology, 168(5): 506-513. PMCID:PMC2727170. DOI:10.1093/aje/kwn185. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Mujahid, M.S., Roux, A.V., Jeffrey Morenoff, Trivellore Raghunathan, R.S. Cooper, H.Y. Ni, and S. Shea. 2008. "Neighborhood characteristics and hypertension." Epidemiology, 19(4): 590-598. DOI:10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181772cb2. Public Access. Worldcat.
Morenoff, Jeffrey, James S. House, Ben Hansen, David R. Williams, George A. Kaplan, and Haslyn E. Hunte. 2007. "Understanding Social Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control: The Role of Neighborhood Context." Social Science and Medicine, 65(9): 1853-1866. PMCID:PMC2705439. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.05.038. Licensed Access.
Muhahid, Mahasin, Ana V. Diez Roux, Jeffrey Morenoff, and Trivellore Raghunathan. 2007. "Assessing the Measurement Properties of Neighborhood Scales: From Psychometrics to Ecometrics." American Journal of Epidemiology, 165(8): 858-867. DOI:10.1093/aje/kwm040. Licensed Access.
Roux, A.V., Mujahid, M.S., Jeffrey Morenoff, and Trivellore Raghunathan. 2007. "Mujahid et al. Respond to "Beyond the metrics for measuring neighborhood effects"." American Journal of Epidemiology, 165(8): 872-873. DOI:10.1093/aje/kwm039. Licensed Access.
Swaroop, Sapna, and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2006. "Building Community: The Neighborhood Context of Social Organization." Social Forces, 84(3): 1665-1695.
Sampson, R.J., Jeffrey Morenoff, and Stephen W. Raudenbush. 2005. "Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence." American Journal of Public Health, 95(2): 224-232. PMCID:PMC1449156. DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2004.037705.. Licensed Access.
Chapters
Morenoff, Jeffrey, Ana Diez Roux, Theresa Osypuk, and Ben Hansen. 2008. "Residential Environments and Obesity: How Can Observational Studies Inform Policy Interventions?" In The Health Effects of Social and Economic Policy edited by Robert Schoeni, James House, George Kaplan, and Harold Pollock. New York : Russell Sage.
Morenoff, Jeffrey, and Robert J. Sampson. 2007. "Constructing Community Indicators of Child Well-Being." In Key Indicators of Child and Youth Well-being: Completing the Picture edited by Brown, Brett; Moore, Kristin Anderson . Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey Morenoff, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Sapna Swaroop. 2007. "Ecometrics: The Use of Surveys and Observational Methods to Study Social Settings." In Social Contexts of Pathways in Crime: Methods and Analytic Techniques edited by P.O. Wikstrom. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Recent resources, events, news
New Publications
Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"
Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report
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Tues, Dec 1
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