CARLOS MENDES DE LEON
Professor of Epidemiology, Epidemiology, School of Public Health.
Ph.D., University of Texas
Dr. Mendes de Leon is a social epidemiologist with a primary interest in the major health problems and health disparities in late life. His work focuses on a broad array of social and psychological determinants that affect the development and progression of disability, cognitive decline and other common, age-associated health conditions. Specific areas of interest include the role of neighborhood-level social processes and environments in late-life health, and the complex interplay between life-course social conditions and biological processes and their functional consequences in older age. His current studies focus on the role of neighborhood contexts and inflammatory processes in social disparities in late-life disability and cognitive impairment. In other research, he is investigating the cumulative and interactive effects of racial background and life-course socio-economic disadvantage in subclinical disease and disability in older adults.
Funded Aging Projects
- Does the Neighborhood Environment Modify Genetic Risk for Cognitive Decline? (NIA)
- Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Disability in Older Adults (NIEHS)
- Early and Mid-Life Social Determinants of Racial Disparities in Late Life Health (NIA)
- Trust in Health Care and Racial Disparities in an Aging Population (NIA)
- Interdisciplinary Research Training on Health and Aging (NIA)
Publications
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