ANA DIEZ ROUX
Research Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Dr. Diez Roux has been an international leader in the social epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, the application of multilevel analysis in epidemiology, and the investigation of neighborhood health effects. She is an epidemiologist whose work has focused on the examination of the social determinants of health. Her research also focuses on the social determinants of cardiovascular disease with special emphasis on the examination of how residential environments shape the distribution of cardiovascular risk. Recent work also examines the role of air pollution exposures, the effects of psychosocial stress on the development of cardiovascular disease, and the social patterning of biomarkers of stress, inflammation, and hemostasis.
Funded Aging Projects
- Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) (NIMHD)
- Multilevel & Lifecourse Approaches to NCD Prevention in Latin America (Fogarty)
- Life Course Socioeconomics, Acculturation, & Type-2 Diabetes Risk Among Latinos (NIDDK)
- Infectious Links Between Psychosocial Stress and Aging (NIA)
- Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities(CIAHD)?Environmental Rev (NIMHD)
- Stress, Gene-Environment Interaction and Cardiovascular Disease (NHLBI)
- Marginal Structural Modeling: Towards Recovering Casual Estimates of Neighborhood Poverty and Mortality (HHS-NIH)
- Mortality & Macroeconomic Conditions: Differential Vulnerability & Mechanisms (NICHD)
- Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) - Occupational Analyses (DHHS PHS)
- Prospective Study of Atherosclerosis, Clinical Cardiovascular Disease, and L-T Exposure to Ambient Particulate Matter and Other Air Pollutants in a Multi-ethnic Cohort - Yr 8 (EPA)
- Neighborhoods and CVD Risk in a Multiethnic Cohort (NHLBI)
- Social and Neighborhood Predictors of Obesity in Belo Horizonte (Fogarty)
- Tools for Measuring and Analyzing Cortisol Levels in Population Studies of Health Disparities (NIDA)
- Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) (NCMHD)
- Urban Social Context, Health and Health Disparities (NICHD)
- Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (NICHD)
Publications
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