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Sarah Burgard
Funded Research:
The Social and Economic Dynamics of Optimism and Hopelessness over American Adulthood: Evidence from the Americans Changing Lives Study (1986-2011) (Templeton, John)
Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (NIA)
Interdisciplinary Research Training on Health and Aging (NIA)
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program (RWJ)
The Well-being of the Long-term Unemployed after the Great Recession (Rockefeller Foundation)
Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center.
Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, ISR.
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health.
Associate Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
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.
Select Publications
Journal Articles
Burgard, Sarah, and Sarah Seelye. Forthcoming. "Histories of Perceived Job Insecurity and Psychological Distress among Older U.S.Adults." Society and Mental Health. DOI. Abstract.
Burgard, Sarah, and Amanda Sonnega. Forthcoming. "Occupational Differences in BMI, BMI Trajectories, and Implications for Employment Status." Work, Aging and Retirement. DOI.
Kim, Huiyun, Sarah Burgard, and Kristin Seefeldt. 2017. "Housing assistance and housing insecurity: A study of renters in southeastern Michigan in the wake of the great recession." Social Service Review, 91(1): 41-70. DOI. Abstract.
Assari, S., M. Lankarani, and Sarah Burgard. 2016. "Black-white difference in long-term predictive power of self-rated health on all-cause mortality in United States." Annals of Epidemiology, 26(2): 106-114. PMCID: PMC4792698. DOI.
Leggett, Amanda, Sarah Burgard, and Kara Zivin. 2016. "The Impact of Sleep Disturbance on the Association Between Stressful Life Events and Depressive Symptoms." Journals of Gerontology B: Psychological and Social Sciences, 71(1): 118-128. PMCID: PMC4861642. DOI. Abstract.
Assari, S., and Sarah Burgard. 2015. "Black-White differences in the effect of baseline depressive symptoms on deaths due to renal diseases: 25 year follow up of a nationally representative community sample." Journal of Renal Injury Prevention, 4(4): 127-134. PMCID: PMC4685983. DOI. Abstract.
Grandner, Michael A., Tony E. Smith, Nicholas Jackson, Tara Jackson, Sarah Burgard, and Charles Branas. 2015. "Geographic distribution of insufficient sleep across the United States: a county-level hotspot analysis." Sleep Health, 1(3): 158-165. PMCID: PMC4790125. DOI. Abstract.
Current PSC Trainees:
Shannon Ang, Anne Blumenthal, Shauna Dyer, Elizabeth Ela, K. Michael Evangelist, Katrina Hauschildt, Yuan He, Vanesa Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios, Huiyun Kim, Min Hee Kim, David Mickey-Pabello, Minha Noh, Janette Norrington, Garrett Pace, Sarah Seelye.