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Sarah Burgard
Funded Research:
BEV/PHEV Driver Information/ HMI Development (Ford Motor Company)
Negative Work Conditions and Health Across the Career (NICHD)
Recessionary shocks and their relationship to health: Evidence from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (Russell Sage Foundation)
The Effects of the Housing Crisis on Vulnerable Workers and Families (MacArthur Foundation)
The Michigan Recession and Recovery Survey: Wave One Data Preparation and Initial Analysis (Weinberg Endowment Fund)
Understanding Social Disparities in Health and Aging (NIA)
Work-family Conflict, Stressful Working Conditions, and Health in the United States (Sloan)
Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research.
Co-Director, Postdoctoral Program, Population Studies Center.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology.
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology.
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Burgard's research interests focus on the way systems of stratification and inequality impact the health of people and populations. She currently studies racial/ethnic and gender-based disparities in working conditions and occupational careers, the effect of these inequalities on health, and the impact of an individual's working life on the well-being of other family members. She also examines racial/ethnic and socioeconomic determinants of children's health in South Africa and Brazil.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Zajacova, Anna, and Sarah Burgard. 2012. "Shape of the BMI-Mortality Association by Cause of Death, Using Generalized Additive Models: NHIS 1986-2006." Journal of Aging and Health, 24(2): 191-211. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Song, Shige, and Sarah Burgard. 2011. "Dynamics of Inequality: Mother's Education and Infant Mortality in China, 1970-2001." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 52(3): 349-364. DOI.
Kershaw, Kiarri N., Ana Diez Roux, Sarah Burgard, Lynda D. Lisabeth, Mahasin S. Mujahid, and Amy J. Schulz. 2011. "Metropolitan-Level Racial Residential Segregation and Black-White Disparities in Hypertension." American Journal of Epidemiology, 174(5): 537-545. PMCID: PMC3202148. DOI. Abstract.
Burgard, Sarah. 2011. "The Needs of Others: Gender and Sleep Interruptions for Caregivers." Social Forces, 89(4): 1189-1215. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Zajacova, Anna, J.B. Dowd, and Sarah Burgard. 2011. "Overweight Adults May Have the Lowest Mortality-Do They Have the Best Health?" American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(4): 430-437. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Sastry, Narayan, and Sarah Burgard. 2011. "Changes in Diarrheal Disease and Treatment among Brazilian Children from 1986 to 1996." Population Research and Policy Review, 30(1): 81-100. PMCID: PMC3045198. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Zajacova, Anna, and Sarah Burgard. 2010. "Body Weight and Health from Early to Mid-Adulthood: A Longitudinal Analysis." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 51(1): 92-107. PMCID: PMC2874756. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Burgard, Sarah, and Jennifer Ailshire. 2009. "Putting work to bed: stressful experiences on the job and sleep quality." Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 50(4): 476-492. PMCID: PMC3320737. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Nicklett, Emily J., and Sarah Burgard. 2009. "Downward Social Mobility and Major Depressive Episodes Among Latino and Asian-American Immigrants to the United States." American Journal of Epidemiology, 170(6): 793-801. PMCID: PMC2768522. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Burgard, Sarah, Jennie Brand, and James S. House. 2009. "Perceived job insecurity and worker health in the United States." Social Science & Medicine, 69(5): 777-85. PMCID: PMC2757283. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.