Work by Geronimus cited in PBS's '5 important stories'
Schoeni and Freedman summarize the good and bad news on dementia trends among older Americans
Geronimus offered an explanation for the black-white gap in maternal and infant health 25 years ago
U-M participants at 2018 PAA Annual Meeting
PDHP invites applications for Faculty Small Grants in support of population science
PSC launches new program to support population scientists across U-M
Mon, May 7, 2018, noon:
Student Forum on Educational Inequality
The Interactive Roles of Neighborhood Characteristics and Genetic Risk in Racial Inequalities in CKD (NIDDK)
Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center.
Research Investigator, STARH Program, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.
Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.
Research Investigator, Internal Medicine, Medical School.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Dr. Hicken studies racial inequalities in health, complex systems, gene-environment interactions, stress and environmental toxicants in health.
McCluney, Courtney L., Lauren Schmitz, Margaret Hicken, and Amanda Sonnega. Forthcoming. "Structural racism in the workplace: Does perception matter for health inequalities?" Social Science & Medicine. DOI. Abstract.
Hicken, Margaret, Hedwig Lee, and Anna K. Hing. Forthcoming. "The weight of racism: Vigilance and racial inequalities in weight-related measures." Social science & medicine. DOI. Abstract.
Lê-Scherban, Félice, Allison Brenner, Margaret Hicken, Belinda L. Needham, Teresa Seeman, Richard P. Sloan, Xu Wang, and Ana V. Diez Roux. 2018. "Child and Adult Socioeconomic Status and the Cortisol Response to Acute Stress: Evidence From the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis." Psychosomatic Medicine, 80(2): 184-192. DOI. Abstract.
Hicken, Margaret, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Myles Durkee, and James S. Jackson. 2018. "Racial inequalities in health: Framing future research." Social Science & Medicine, 199: 11-18. DOI.
Needham, Belinda L., Margaret Hicken, Ishtar O. Govia, Colter Mitchell, and Cleopatra M. Abdou. 2017. "Maternal Social Disadvantage and Newborn Telomere Length in Archived Dried Blood Spots from the Michigan Neonatal Biobank." Biodemography and social biology, 63(3): 221-235. DOI. Abstract.
Kershaw, K.N., Ana V. Diez Roux, Margaret Hicken, W.R. Robinson, P. Gordon-Larsen, David C. Goff, Mercedes R. Carnethon, Catarina I. Kiefe, an, et al. 2017. "Association of changes in neighborhood-level racial residential segregation with changes in blood pressure among black adults: The cardia study." JAMA Internal Medicine, 177(7): 996-1002. DOI. Abstract.
Hicken, Margaret. 2017. "Measurement and modeling of race and health in Brazil: continuing the discussion." Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 33(suppl. 1): 2-5. DOI. Abstract.
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