ARLINE T. GERONIMUS
Research Professor, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan.
Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Geronimus studies cultural influences on population variation in family structure and age-at-first birth; the effects of poverty, institutionalized discrimination, and residential areas on health; the strategies used by marginalized communities to mitigate the harmful health effects of poverty and structural racism; and the perturbations public policies sometimes cause in these autonomous protections. She has developed an analytic framework, "weathering," that posits that the health of African Americans is subject to early health deterioration as a consequence of social exclusion; much of her scholarly work is related to developing and testing this framework.
Funded Aging Projects
- Urban Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations (Coverage Research Initiative) (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Impact of HIV/AIDS on Active Life Expectancy in High Poverty Areas in the United States (MiCDA)
- Weathering and Telomeres: A Novel Approach to the Study of Racial Disparities in Health (MiCDA)
- Exploring the Import of Health-Related Residential Mobility to Local Area Studies (NICHD)
- Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging - Supplement (NIA)
- Race/Ethnicity, Psychosocial and Environmental Stressors, and Telomere Length (NIH)
- Gender Differences in Stress-Mediated Wear and Tear with Age among Mexican Immigrants to the U.S. (MiCDA)
Publications
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