Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities
The goal of the Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities (CIAHD) is to promote and support
research that comprehensively integrates social and biological factors within a multilevel framework in understanding
the determinants of minority health and health disparities. Persistent and pronounced differences in health by
race/ethnicity exist for multiple health outcomes. Despite repeated documentation of these disparities, there is still
substantial debate on the driving forces behind them. Through research projects, pilot grants, and dissemination
activities CIAHD aims to promote integrative approaches that lead to more complete understanding and more effective
policies and interventions. CIAHD is a collaboration between the University of Michigan, Drexel University and the
Jackson Heart Study through its two partners, Jackson State University and the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Visit our website at www.ciahd.org. For more information contact [email protected] or call 734-763-5974.
IN REMEMBRANCE
Sharon Wyatt, PhD, RN, CANP, FAAN
Sharon Wyatt, PhD, RN, CANP, FAAN
Professor of Nursing and Medicine
Harriet G. Williamson Endowed Chair in Nephrology Nursing
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
January 30, 1948 – November 5, 2015
In remembrance of Dr. Sharon B. Wyatt, a renowned scholar, trusted colleague,
mentor and friend.
Dr. Wyatt was an endowed professor in the school of nursing and medicine at the
University of Mississippi Medical Center. She received her BSN and MSN from the
University of Alabama – Birmingham, her PhD from the University of Virginia and completed her post-doctoral training at
Georgetown University and the University of Mississippi. Dr. Wyatt was an inductee in the American Academy of Nursing
and in 2007 was named the first and only endowed chair in nursing in the state of Mississippi. Dr. Wyatt taught in the
PhD and DNP program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and maintained a clinical practice in the Division of
Hypertension, where she developed the first interdisciplinary practice and education model at UMMC for nurse
practitioners, medical and pharmacy students to care for persons with metabolic syndrome.
Dr. Wyatt’s area of research focused on cardiovascular health disparities and innovative community driven solutions to
reduce disparities, which led her to become one of the leading investigators of the Jackson Heart Study. She was
instrumental in developing the initial Jackson Heart Study grant application to create a landmark national study to
identify reasons for disparities in heart disease among African Americans. When JHS was funded Dr. Wyatt served as
Director and co-Principal Investigator of the Examination Center of the Jackson Heart Study for nearly 10 years.
Dr. Wyatt was passionate about the role of psychosocial factors and the environment in shaping cardiovascular risk in
African Americans. She led a broad effort to include psychosocial measures in the Jackson Heart Study. It is chiefly thanks
to Dr. Wyatt that JHS has one of the richest and broadest psychosocial batteries of any cardiovascular cohort. Dr. Wyatt
was also a key player in developing the initial CIAHD proposal in 2005, which led to over a decade of research and
supported the development of the network that comes together every year as part of our Annual Symposium.
In addition to her many scientific accomplishments, Dr. Wyatt was a dedicated mentor and a passionate supporter of
efforts to eliminate health disparities and improve the health of the most disadvantaged through research, policy and
mentorship. We will always remember her curiosity, dedication, good humor, and commitment to doing the very best
research we can do but also to using it to make a difference. It was an honor for CIAHD to count her among its founding
members. We dedicate this symposium to her memory.
Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities
and the Jackson Heart Study
SIXTH ANNUAL JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM
March 17 – 18, 2016 in Jackson, Mississippi
PRESENTING
“Methodological Challenges in Understanding Health”
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SIXTH ANNUAL JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM
PRE-SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOP
PRE-SYMPOSIUM DAY 0 – March 16, 2016
LOCATION: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson Medical Mall, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson
Dr., Jackson, MS 39213
TIME
SESSION
SPEAKERS / MODERATORS
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 – 9:00 AM
JHS Medical Mall, Longwood Concourse
9:00 – 4:00 PM
Rowan Oak Hall
LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS
Mike Griswold PhD, Professor and Director, UMMC,
Center of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics,
CIAHD JHS-UMMC Sub Award Principal Investigator
Brisa Sánchez, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics,
Core Director CIAHD Biostatistics & Genetics Core
Kari Moore, MS, Biostatistician, Drexel University,
Dornsife School of Public Health
Steven (Xu) Wang, MS Programmer & Systems
Analyst, Drexel University,
Dornsife School of Public Health
Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities
and the Jackson Heart Study
SIXTH ANNUAL JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM
March 17 – 18, 2016 in Jackson, Mississippi
PRESENTING
“Methodological Challenges in Understanding Health”
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SIXTH ANNUAL JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
SYMPOSIUM DAY ONE – March 17, 2016
LOCATION: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson Medical Mall, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson
Dr., Jackson, MS 39213
DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA
TIME
SESSION
SPEAKERS / MODERATORS
TRADITIONAL BREAKFAST
7:45– 8:45 AM
8:40 – 8:50 AM
Dunlieth Hall
JHS Medical Mall, Longwood Concourse
WELCOME /
INTRODUCTIONS
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator CIAHD, Dean, Drexel
University, Dornsife School of Public Health
Adolfo Correa, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator and Chief Science Officer, Jackson
Heart Study, University Mississippi Medical Center
8:50 – 8:55 AM
SYMPOSIUM
OVERVIEW
8:55 – 12:00 PM
MORNING SESSION
Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and
Education Core
PLENARY SESSION
8:55 – 9:00 AM
KEYNOTE
INTRODUCTION
James S. Jackson, PhD, Co-Director CIAHD and Principal Investigator, CIAHD
Research Project 3
Keynote Address
Tené T. Lewis, PhD, Associate Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory
University
Title: Discriminatory Stressors and Cardiovascular Health in African-Americans:
Moving (a bit) Beyond Experiences
James S. Jackson, PhD, Co-Director CIAHD and Principal Investigator, CIAHD
Research Project 3
9:00 – 9:45 AM
9:45 – 10:00 AM
10:00 – 10:20 AM
Moderated
Discussion
NETWORKING BREAK
(Refreshments – Longwood Concourse)
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
SYMPOSIUM DAY ONE – March 17, 2016
LOCATION: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson Medical Mall, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson
Dr., Jackson, MS 39213
DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
[SESSION I]
10:20 – 12:00 PM
Dunlieth Hall
12:00 – 12:30 PM
Empirical
Presentations
Moderated
Discussion
Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Martin Sisters Endowed
Chair, Medical Research & Public Health, University of California Berkeley
Title: Neighborhoods and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Health:
Comparing Analytic Approaches
Abigail Sewell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Emory
University
Title: Interrogating Institutional Gatekeepers: methods for Quantifying
Supraindividual Racial Bias
Whitney Robinson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Gillings School of Global Public
Health, University of North Carolina
Title: Interpreting “race” in Regression Models: Application of a Causal
Framework in Disparities Research
Mike Griswold, PhD, Professor and Director, UMMC, Center of Biostatistics &
Bioinformatics, CIAHD JHS-UMMC Sub Award Principal Investigator
LUNCH
12:30 – 1:30 PM
1:30 – 3:30 PM
Dunlieth Hall
1:30 – 1:35 PM
1:35 – 1:40 PM
(Buffet Style)
JHS Medical Mall, Longwood Concourse
AFTERNOON SESSION
Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and
Education Core
CIAHD Supports First Lady Michelle Obama – “Gimme Five Challenge”
stimulate the body, stimulate the mind in just 5 minutes
Session Led by Félice Lê –Scherban, PhD, Drexel University
SESSION
OVERVIEW
Gimme Five
Challenge
USING SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH
[SESSION II]
1:40 – 3:20 PM
Dunlieth Hall
3:20 – 3:50 PM
3:50 – 4:00 PM
4:30 – 6:30 PM
Empirical
Presentations
Moderated
Discussion
Theresa Osypuk, PhD, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Community Health,
University of Minnesota
Title: Residential Segregation and Health Disparities Scholarship:
Methodological Challenges and Translational Opportunities
Dustin Duncan, ScD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pop Health, New York
University School of Medicine
Title: Connecting Neighborhoods and Health Disparities using Emerging
Technologies
Megan Andrew, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
Title: The Many Social Dimensions of Residential Segregation and Their Effects:
The Case of Infant Health
Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator, CIAHD
SESSION WRAP-UP
EXCURSION – Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center
528 Bloom St., Jackson, MS 39202
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
SYMPOSIUM DAY TWO – March 18, 2016
LOCATION: LOCATION: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson Medical Mall, 350 W. Woodrow
Wilson Dr., Jackson, MS 39213
DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA
TIME
SESSION
SPEAKERS / MODERATORS
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 – 8:45 AM
8:45 – 9:00 AM
JHS Medical Mall, Longwood Concourse
WELCOME /
OVERVIEW
OF SESSION
Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Director CIAHD, Research Training and
Education Core
9:00 – 12:00 PM
Dunlieth Hall
MORNING SESSION
9:00 – 9:15 AM
KEYNOTE
INTRODUCTION
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator CIAHD, Dean,
Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health
Keynote Address
George A. Mensah, MD, FACC, Director, Center for Translation Research and
Implementation Science (CTRIS), Acting Director, Division of Cardiovascular
Sciences, NIH NHLBI
Title: From Disparities to Health Equity: The Role of Translation Research and
Implementation Science
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Director and Principal Investigator CIAHD, Dean,
Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health
PLENARY SESSION
9:15 – 10:00 AM
10:00 – 10:15 AM
Moderated Discussion
NETWORKING BREAK
10:15 – 10:30 AM
10:30 – 12:00 PM
Dunlieth Hall
10:30 – 11:45 AM
11:45 – 12:00 PM
12:00 – 1:45PM
(Refreshments – Longwood Concourse)
NAVIGATING FACULTY CAREER PATH
PANEL DISCUSSION
Panelist: Abigail Sewell, Dustin Duncan, Theresa Osypuk, Whitney Robinson,
Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, Sandra Albrecht
Moderated Discussion Félice Lê –Scherban, PhD, Assistant Professor, Drexel University, Dornsife
School of Public Health and Amanda Onwuka, PhD-C, University of Michigan,
School of Public Health
AFTERNOON SESSION
COMMUNITY / POLICY APPLICATIONS - Business Luncheon
JHS Medical Mall, Longwood Concourse
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Longwood
Concourse
1:30 – 1:45 PM
1:45 – 2:00 PM
KEYNOTE
INTRODUCTION
Keynote Address
Moderated Discussion
Donna Antoine-LaVigne, MSEd, MPH, PhD, Principal Investigator, CEOC - JHS
Evelyn Walker, MD, MPH, ICM Medical Director – Mississippi, United
Healthcare Community and State
Title: Identifying Community Stakeholders for Disparities Research
Participation
Donna Antoine-LaVigne, MSEd, MPH, PhD, Principal Investigator, CEOC - JHS
WRAP-UP / NEXT STEPS / EVALUATION
Airport Departures – flights leaving out at 3:55, 4:05 and 6:30pm
(25-30 minutes to airport)
BIOGRAPHIES - CIAHD Leadership
BIOGRAPHY - Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH
Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Dean
Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
Director and Principal Investigator, CIAHD
Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 1
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Diez Roux is Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Drexel University
Dornsife School of Public Health. Before joining Drexel she was Chair of
Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population
Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Diez Roux has been an international leader in the
investigation of the social determinants of health, the application of multilevel analysis in health research, and the study
of neighborhood health effects. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental
health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Recent areas of
work include social environment-gene interactions and the use of complex systems approaches in population health. She
has led large NIH and foundation funded research and training programs in the United States and in collaboration with
various institutions in Latin America. She has been a member of the MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Factors and
Health and is a Co-Director of the Network on Inequality, Complexity and Health.
Dr. Diez Roux has served on numerous review panels and advisory committees including most recently the Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC)
of the National Center for Health Statistics, the Committee on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment
of the International Council for Science (ISCUS) and the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Public Health. She was
awarded the Wade Hampton Frost Award for her contributions to public health by the American Public Health
Association. She is an elected member of the American Epidemiological Society, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine
Research, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Diez Roux received an MD from the University of Buenos Aires, a master’s degree in public health and doctorate in
health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
BIOGRAPHY - James S. Jackson, PhD
James S. Jackson, PhD
Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology,
Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies
Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Co-Director CIAHD, Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 3
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Jackson is the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor
of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Research Professor at the Institute for Social
Research, all at the University of Michigan. He is also the Co-Director of CIAHD and the
Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR). His research
focuses on issues of racial and ethnic influences on life-course development, attitude
change, reciprocity, social support, and coping and health among blacks in the Diaspora. He is past Director of the
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and past national president of the Association of Black Psychologists, the
Consortium of Social Science Associations, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He is the recipient
of the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority
Issues, American Psychological Association, the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for Distinguished Career
Contributions in Applied Psychology from the Association of Psychological Sciences and the Solomon Carter Fuller Award,
American Psychiatric Association. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the W.E.B. Dubois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and
a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.
Dr. Jackson is currently directing the most extensive social, political behavior, and mental and physical health surveys on
the African American and Black Caribbean populations ever conducted, “The National Survey of American Life.” He is also
directing the “The Family Survey across Generations and Nations” and the National Science Foundation and Carnegie
Corporation supported “National Study of Ethnic Pluralism and Politics.” He serves on several Boards for the National
Research Council and the National Academies of Science and is a founding member of the “Aging Society Research
Network” of the MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Jackson was recently appointed to the National Science Foundation’s
National Science Board, a policymaking and executive body which advises Congress and the President on science and
engineering policy.
BIOGRAPHY - Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD
Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, Director Center for Social Epidemiology and Population
Health,
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Co-Principal Investigator CIAHD
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Mendes de Leon is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School
of Public Health, where he has been a faculty member since 2011. Prior to joining the
University of Michigan, he was first an Associate Professor and then a Professor of
Internal Medicine (Epidemiology) and Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical
Center. From 2008-2010, he served as Director of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging. Before joining the Rush Institute
for Healthy Aging in 1995, he was an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale University School of Public Health.
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-related health outcomes. 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 mid-life psychosocial experiences in late-life disability, mental health and other age-related
health outcomes. In other research, he is starting to explore the public health needs and health disparities in the Arab
American population. He is an active member in professional organizations in the fields of gerontology, epidemiology
and population health, and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals in these disciplines.
BIOGRAPHY - Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD, AM, MA
Cleopatra H. Caldwell, PhD, AM, MA
Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH)
Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Director CIAHD Research Training and Education Core
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Caldwell is a Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education (HBHE, SPH), a Faculty
Associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) at The Institute for
Social Research, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She
is also affiliated with the Prevention Research Center of Michigan (PRC), Youth Violence Center of Michigan and she is the
current Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH) at SPH. Dr. Caldwell has been the PI,
Co-PI or Co-I on several NIH or CDC funded studies examining family and environmental factors influencing risky health
behaviors and mental health among Black adolescents. She also conducts family-centered, youth preventive intervention
research using a CBPR approach. Recently, she has been examining environmental factors and fathers’ contributions to
birth outcomes in Black families as part of a multidisciplinary research team to broaden the health disparities focus in
birth outcomes research.
Dr. Caldwell brings a wealth of research training and mentoring experiences to the CIAHD Director of Training position.
She was Chair of the HBHE Doctoral Curriculum Committee, which oversees the matriculation of doctoral students. She
has worked with the CRECH Doctoral Education Training Program since it began in 2000. She is the current Director of the
Summer Health Disparities Research Immersion Program for the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research
(MICHR) and Co-Director of the Training and Education Core for the CDC funded University of Michigan Injury Center. She
has received several research mentoring and diversity awards, including awards from the University’s Office of the
Provost, the University Research Opportunity Program, and the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Award from the University of
Michigan.
BIOGRAPHY - Allison E. Aiello, PhD, MS
Allison E. Aiello, PhD, MS
Professor, Epidemiology
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 2
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Aiello is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina - Gillings
School of Global Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. She received her PhD
with distinction in Epidemiology from Columbia University-Mailman School of Public
Health and was the recipient of the Ana C. Gelman award for outstanding achievement and promise in the field of
epidemiology. Her research investigates psychosocial, socioeconomic and race/ethnic disparities in health, the
relationship between infection and chronic diseases, and prevention of infection in the community setting. She has
identified relationships between psychosocial determinants and immune response to infection and helped uncover social
disparities in the burden of infection and immune response to cytomegalovirus in the US population. Currently, Dr. Aiello
is the PI of several NIH funded studies where she is examining social, behavioral, biological, and genetic determinants of
health outcomes.
BIOGRAPHY - Belinda Needham, PhD
Belinda Needham, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
UM-Principal Investigator, CIAHD Research Project 2
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Needham serves as the local PI, for CIAHD Research Project 2, working in
conjunction with Dr. Allison Aiello. Dr. Needham’s research focuses on health
disparities. In general, members of socially disadvantaged groups have worse mental
and physical health than those who have higher social status. Dr. Needham’s work seeks to identify, explain, and reduce
gender, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and sexual orientation health disparities. Dr. Needham’s primary research goals
are: (1) To use novel approaches to assess health disparities across the life course, (2) To identify the social structural,
psychological, behavioral, and physiological mechanisms by which social disadvantage leads to health disparities, and (3)
To develop and test interventions to reduce the effect of social disadvantage on morbidity and mortality.
BIOGRAPHY - Amy Schulz, PhD
Amy Schulz, PhD
Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Co-Director, CIAHD Community Engagement and Outreach Core
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Schulz is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at
the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UMSPH). She has been engaged in
ongoing etiologic and intervention research in Detroit, examining social and physical
environmental determinants of health, and designing, implementing and evaluating
interventions to address them, for over 15 years. She has contributed to the literature on social inequity and social
determinants of health, including publications on conceptual frameworks for understanding social determinants of
health in urban settings and multiple publications examining pathways and processes linking social inequalities to health
inequities. Dr. Schulz has served as the Principal Investigator for the Detroit Healthy Environments Partnership, a
community-based participatory research partnership focused on understanding and addressing the environmental
factors that contribute to racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health inequities in Detroit, since 2000. In that capacity, she
has conducted etiologic research on the social determinants of cardiovascular risk and engaged in community based
participatory planning processes to design, implement and evaluate interventions to reduce cardiovascular health
inequities.
Dr. Schulz has considerable experience working with and facilitating community-based participatory research (CBPR)
partnerships, and is a leading contributor to the literature on engaging community, academic and public health practice
partners in participatory research and intervention efforts. She currently serves as PI for the Detroit Healthy
Environments Partnership (NIMHD); Multi-PI (with Dr. Stuart Batterman) for the Community Approaches to Promoting
Healthy Environments (NIEHS), a research to action project focused on reducing exposure to air pollution in Detroit; CoLead (with Dr. Israel) for the Community Outreach and Education Core of the Center for Integrative Approaches to
Cardiovascular Disease (PI: Diez Roux), a Center of Excellence focused on social determinants of cardiovascular disease
(NIMHD), and Co-Lead (with Dr. Israel) for the Community Outreach and Education Core for the Environmental Health
Core Center (PI: Loch-Caruso) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
BIOGRAPHY - Barbara A. Israel, MPH, DrPH
Barbara A. Israel, MPH, DrPH
Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Co-Director, CIAHD Community Outreach and Education Core
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Israel is a Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education,
School of Public Health, University of Michigan. She has published widely in the areas of:
the social and physical environmental determinants of health and health inequities; the
relationship among stress, social support, control and physical and mental health; and
community-based participatory research (CBPR). Dr. Israel has extensive experience conducting CBPR in collaboration
with partners in diverse communities. Since 1995, she has worked together with academic and community partners to
establish and maintain the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. The Center involves multiple NIH and
Foundation-funded basic etiologic research and intervention research projects aimed at increasing knowledge and
addressing factors associated with health inequities in Detroit. Dr. Israel is actively involved in several of these CBPR
projects examining and addressing, for example, the environmental triggers of childhood asthma, the social and physical
environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease, access to food and physical activity spaces, and capacity building
for and translating research findings into policy change.
BIOGRAPHY - Donna Antoine-LaVigne, MSEd, MPH, PhD
Donna Antoine-LaVigne, MSEd, MPH, PhD
Principal Investigator, CEOC – JHS
Principal Investigator Jackson Heart Study Community Outreach Center
Jackson Heart Study
Jackson State University
Co-Director, CIAHD Community Outreach and Education Core - JHS
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Donna Antoine-LaVigne joined the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) as the Coordinator of
Community Partnership/Outreach Office (CPO) in July 2000, in 2010 she became the
Associate Director (AD) of the CPO. Between the years 1999-2013, the CPO was a unit
within the Jackson State University JHS Coordinating Center. During the recruitment
phase of the JHS, Dr. Antoine-LaVigne contributed significantly to the development and implementation of novel
strategies that ultimately resulted in the recruitment of 5,301 JHS participants. Additionally, linkages and partnerships
were established with faith and community-based organizations; business groups; government agencies; private nonprofit organizations; and for profit entities. Under the CPO, local volunteers and JHS outreach staff were trained and
certified as community health advisors (CHAs) to provide health education and training in cardiovascular health; chronic
disease self-management; diet and nutrition; and physical activity. In August 2013, the CPO became the newly funded
Jackson State University Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Community Outreach Center (CORC) of which she is the Principal
Investigator. The successes realized by the CPO continue with the CORC, under her leadership and the expertise of the
knowledgeable and dedicated CORC staff. Dr. Antoine-LaVigne continues to successfully collaborate with numerous
community and faith partners; university partners including University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Alabama,
Birmingham, as well as the Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities at Jackson State University and
others. Collaborations have also included Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and
Science, and Meharry Medical College. In July 2015, Dr. Antoine-LaVigne presented at the Working Group Advisory
Committee to the NIH Director Health Equity Precision Medicine Participant Engagement Workshop. In 2014, she was
appointed to the American Heart Association Multicultural Initiatives Committee for the Southeastern Affiliate.
BIOGRAPHY - Frances C. Henderson, EdD
Frances C. Henderson, EdD
Dean Emeritus of the School of Nursing at Alcorn State University
Evaluation Consultant, CIAHD Community Outreach and Education Core - JHS
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Henderson serves as the Evaluation Consultant for the Community Outreach and
Engagement Core of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities
(CIAHD). Dr. Henderson engages with the project team in designing and implementing a
participatory evaluation plan. Dr. Henderson has served as an Evaluation Consultant for
a variety of projects over the last 20 years, including nursing workforce diversity projects. She has over 20 years of
experience conducting focus groups and interpreting focus group interviews, individually and as a member of an
interpretive team. She received her initial education and experience in interpretive phenomenology at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison. She was a member of the interpretive team that interpreted the focus group and individual
interviews of the Participant Recruitment and Retention Study that was conducted during the feasibility phase of the
Jackson Heart Study (JHS). Dr. Henderson was formerly Deputy Director for the JHS, and currently serves in a Consultant
role. She is Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Nursing, Alcorn State University in Natchez, Mississippi.
BIOGRAPHY - Sharon LR Kardia, PhD
Sharon LR Kardia, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Administration
Professor, Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Co-Director, CIAHD Research Core
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Kardia is the Senior Associate Dean for Administration, Professor of Epidemiology
and Director of Life Sciences and Society Program at the University of Michigan School
of Public Health. Her research interest is in the area of genetic epidemiology of
cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. She is particularly interested in geneenvironment and gene-gene interactions and in developing novel analytical strategies
to understand the complex relationship between genetic variation, environmental variation, and risk of common chronic
diseases.
BIOGRAPHY - Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD
Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Co-Director, CIAHD Research Core
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Sánchez is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics. She received her Ph.D. in
Biostatistics in 2006 from Harvard University and joined the University of Michigan that
year as Assistant Research Professor. She transitioned to Assistant Professor in 2008,
and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. Her research interests are the
development and innovative application of statistical methodology to study environmental and social determinants of
health and health disparities. She has developed statistical methods and applied them to study the health effects of
multiple correlated environmental exposures that: may occur at multiple time points; may be measured with error; may
be measured through multiple sources; and/or vary with distance from study participant’s residential locations. Some of
these exposures include chemical pollutants and built environment measures, as well as biological markers of the stress
response. Throughout her work, she strives to translate innovative statistical methodologies to the epidemiological and
clinical literature where they can have further impact in advancing science more generally. Her contributions in applied
statistics have been recognized nationally and internationally by being appointed as Associate Editor in two journals that
specifically focus on high quality, innovative applications of biostatistical methodology: Statistics in Medicine, the Journal
of the Royal Statistical Society-Series C (Applied Statistics). Her contributions to research and teaching at the UMSPH
were recognized through her appointment as the John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Biostatistics for 2012-2013. She
has been principal investigator on grants funded internally through the University of Michigan as well as private
foundations, and has been leader or co-leader of Biostatistics Cores for NIH-funded research centers. As part of her role
as co-Director of the CIAHD center, she consults and collaborates with center investigators and trainees on statistical
methodologies that are well suited to their specific research questions.
BIOGRAPHY - Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH
Jennifer Smith, PhD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor
Epidemiology, School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Investigator, CIAHD Research Core
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Smith is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the
University of Michigan. She received a BS in Biology with a focus on genetics from
Cornell University, Master’s degrees in Statistics and Health Management/Policy from
the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Smith's research focuses on the genetic epidemiology of common chronic diseases and their risk factors in large multiethnic cohorts including the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy (GENOA), the Health and Retirement Study
(HRS), and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Her research investigates the relationships between genetic,
epigenetic, transcriptomic, and proteomic variation and traits including blood pressure, coronary artery calcification,
kidney function, ischemic brain injury, and cognition. She is particularly interested in the way that gene-by-social and
gene-by-psychosocial factor interactions are associated with chronic disease risk.
BIOGRAPHY - Adolfo Correa, MD, MPH, PHD, MBA
Adolfo Correa, MD, MPH, PhD, MBA
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Director and Principal Investigator, Jackson Heart Study
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Correa is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Mississippi
Medical Center, and serves as Director, Principal Investigator, and acting Chief Science
Officer for the Jackson Heart Study (JHS). Prior to joining the JHS, he served on the
faculty of the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
(JHSPH) and at the University of Maryland School of Medicine where he served as the lead epidemiologist for the one of
the first population-based case control studies of congenital heart defects (Baltimore-Washington Infant Study). He also
worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as Birth Defects Surveillance Team Leader and director of
the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program (MACDP). Dr. Correa has led numerous surveillance and
epidemiologic research projects related to congenital heart defects and other birth defects based on data from MACDP,
National Birth Defects Prevention Network, and National Birth Defects Prevention Study.
BIOGRAPHY - Mario Sims, PhD, MS, FAHA
Mario Sims, PhD, MS, FAHA
Associate Professor of Medicine
Science Officer, Jackson Heart study
University of Mississippi Medical Center
JHS-UMMC Sub Award Principal Investigator, CIAHD
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Sims, a Social Epidemiologist, is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). He is a Science Officer and Co-Investigator in the Jackson
Heart Study (JHS) Dr. Sims completed his PhD in Medical Sociology and Demography at the University of Wisconsin in
1997, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Epidemiology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor (1997-1999), and completed postdoctoral training in Preventive Medicine at the UMMC and Cardiovascular
Epidemiology at the American Heart Association.
Dr. Sims’ current research focuses on understanding the social determinants of health disparities, with a specific interest
in examining how racism, stress and psychosocial factors (as well as traditional biomedical risk factors) combine to
influence cardiovascular disease disparities between racial and ethnic groups. He was the recipient of an NHLBI-funded
K01 award that examined the extent to which socioeconomic status (SES) and psychosocial factors (i.e., discrimination,
stress and negative affect) were associated with CVD and related risk factors among African Americans in the JHS.
Dr. Sims is a Sub-Award Principal Investigator (PI) in the Morehouse/Emory Cardiovascular Care (MECCA) Center for
Health Equity, funded by the American Heart Association’s Strategically Focused Research Network (SFRN), where he
examines the social and environmental factors contributing to cardiovascular risk and resilience among Blacks in Atlanta,
GA and Jackson, MS metropolitan areas. He is also a Sub-Award PI in the Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to
Health Disparities (CIAHD), funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH/NIMHD),
where he is exploring associations of psychosocial stressors with CVD-related risk factors (hypertension and sub-clinical
disease) and social patterning of chronic diseases (type 2 diabetes, CKD, and CVD) among African Americans. Dr. Sims is
also the Sub-Award PI in the Mid-South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research (Mid-South
TCC-NIH/NIMHD), which seeks to reduce the disparities in chronic disease burden (e.g., obesity) experienced by African
Americans. Dr. Sims has published over 47 papers in scientific peer-reviewed journals and has given over 65 professional
presentations at scientific conferences on the psychosocial impact of cardiovascular diseases among African Americans.
BIOGRAPHY - Michael Griswold, PhD
Michael Griswold, PhD
Professor and Director
Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
University of Mississippi Medical Center
JHS-UMMC Sub Award Principal Investigator, CIAHD
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Michael E. Griswold is a Professor and Director of the Center of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He also has Adjunct
Faculty appointments in the departments of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. Dr.
Griswold has experience in the design, execution, and analysis of both observational and
experimental studies and consults regularly for academic institutions, medical-journal editorial committees, government
regulatory agencies, and industry research organizations on statistical issues. Dr. Griswold directs the Data Coordinating
Center components of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), the Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Diseases (MIND)
Center (encompassing the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study Jackson site, the Genetic Epidemiology
Network of Arteriopathy (GENOA) studies, and the Adiposity, Inflammation and Neurocognitive Decline in African
Americans (AINDAA) study and the adaptive Bayesian Rapid Administration of Carnitine in Sepsis trial.
Dr. Griswold received his PhD in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health under the
mentorship of Dr. Scott Zeger. Dr. Griswold’s substantive research areas include health care costs, hospital and physician
profiling, neurocognitive imaging data, cognitive decline, cardiovascular disease, health disparities research, lipid
subfractionation, ‘omics and geriatrics research. Dr. Griswold’s methodological research focuses on translational
biostatistics and multilevel/longitudinal models for complex data archetypes including accounting for informative
missingness.
BIOGRAPHY - Dorothy M. Castille, PhD
Dorothy M Castille, PhD
Program Director
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institutes of Health
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Dorothy Castille is Program Director at the National Institute on Minority Health and
Health Disparities. Her research includes characterizing unmet medical needs, the
natural history of target diseases, treatment and patient reported outcomes in
academia, government, and private industry settings, in the US and Mexico. She has managed state and federal
government funded grant programs. In her position as Program Director at the National Institute on Minority Health and
Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health, manages the Loan Repayment Programs, P60 Comprehensive
Centers of Excellence, and serves as Project Scientist on U54 Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities
Research.
Dr. Castille received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and post-doctoral training in
Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
MARCH 17 – 18, 2016
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
PLENARY SESSION
SESSION: MORNING, MARCH 17, 2016
Moderator: James S. Jackson
BIOGRAPHY – Tené T. Lewis, PhD
Keynote Address: Discriminatory Stressors and Cardiovascular Health in African-Americans: Moving (a bit)
Beyond Experiences
Tené T. Lewis, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Lewis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the Rollins
School of Public Health at Emory University. She received her bachelor’s degree in
Honors Psychology with Distinction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(1996), her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los
Angeles (2003), and completed postdoctoral training in Psychosocial Epidemiology at Rush University Medical School in
Chicago, IL. Dr. Lewis’ primary area of research is in the area of psychosocial epidemiology, with an emphasis on
cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. She has a particular interest in understanding how social and psychological
factors contribute to the disproportionately high rates of CVD morbidity and mortality observed in African-American
women compared to women of other racial/ethnic groups. Dr. Lewis’ scientific work in this area has received honors from
the American Psychosomatic Society and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. Her
research is currently funded by the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and has
been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today and on National Public Radio (NPR). Dr. Lewis has held leadership
positions in the American Psychosomatic Society, the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program and the Robert Wood Johnson
Health and Society Scholars program.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (cont)
MARCH 17 – 18, 2016
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
PLENARY SESSION
SESSION: MORNING, MARCH 18, 2016
Moderator: Ana Diez Roux
BIOGRAPHY – George A. Mensah, MD, FACC
Keynote Address: From Disparities to Health Equity: The Role of Translation Research and Implementation
Science
George A. Mensah, MD, FACC
Director, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS)
Acting Director, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NIH NHLBI
Email: [email protected]
Dr. George Mensah is a senior advisor in the Office of the Director at the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). He also serves as Director of the Center for Translation Research and
Implementation Science (CTRIS). In this position, Dr. Mensah leads a trans-NHLBI
effort to advance post-clinical translational research in heart, lung, and blood
diseases and sleep disorders. Dr. Mensah’s primary focus is the application of late-stage (T4) translation research and
implementation science approaches to address gaps in the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases
and the elimination of health inequities. His goal is to maximize the population health impact of investments made in
fundamental discovery science and pre-clinical translational research in heart, lung, and blood diseases. Dr. Mensah is a
clinician-scientist trained in internal medicine and the subspecialty of cardiovascular diseases. His professional experience
includes 17 years of public service between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). He has had management experience as a chief of cardiology; head of a clinical care
department; and the Surgeon General’s nominee to the Board of Governors of the American College of Cardiology as
governor for public health. In addition to his public service at CDC, Dr. Mensah had 15 years of experience in direct
patient care, teaching, and research at Cornell University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and the
Medical College of Georgia (MCG). He was a professor with tenure at MCG, director of the medical specialties practice at
the MCG Hospitals & Clinics, and department head of cardiovascular care at the VA Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia.
He holds a merit of proficiency from the American Society of Echocardiography and has been designated a “hypertension
specialist” by the American Society of Hypertension. He holds fellowships in several medical societies in Africa and the US.
American Heart Association and the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (cont.)
MARCH 17 – 18, 2016
COMMUNITY / POLICY APPLICATIONS
BUSINESS LUNCHEON
SESSION: AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 2016
Moderator: Donna Antoine-LaVigne
BIOGRAPHY – Evelyn Walker, MD, MPH
Keynote Address: Identifying Community Stakeholders for Disparities Research Participation
Evelyn Walker, MD, MPH
ICM Medical Director - Mississippi
United Healthcare Community and State
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Evelyn Walker, a native Mississippian, is board certified in Family Medicine. She
received her MD degree and completed a family medicine residency at the University of
Mississippi Medical Center. Additionally, she received a Masters of Public Health from
the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her MPH concentration is in Health Care
Organization and Policy.
Dr. Walker’s health care career has included several years of clinical practice in academic, community health center, and
urgent care settings. Through her employment with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NIH) she was engaged
in heart disease research for over ten years. Her prior employment with the Mississippi State Department of Health
provided her with public health experiences in health promotion and health disparities. Here she served as the Director of
Health Promotion and Health Equity. She is currently the Mississippi Inpatient Medical Director for United Healthcare
where she provides inpatient care reviews for Mississippi’s Medicaid State and Community Plan.
EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS
SESSION MODERATOR: Mike Griswold
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
[SESSION I – MARCH 17, 2016]
BIOGRAPHY – Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, MS, FAHA
Presentation: Neighborhoods and Racial/Ethnic Differences in
Cardiovascular Health: Comparing Analytic Approaches
Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, MS, FAHA
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Martin Sisters Endowed Chair, Medical Research & Public Health
Epidemiology, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Email: [email protected]
Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, MS, FAHA is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the School
of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. As a social epidemiologist, Dr.
Mujahid employs interdisciplinary and community-based approaches to investigations of
racial/ethnic and place-based health disparities. Her primary area of research examines
how features of neighborhood environments impact cardiovascular health. Using data from several U.S. based
cardiovascular cohorts, Dr. Mujahid seeks to improve the measurement of specific features of neighborhood physical and
social environments and employ novel statistical methods to estimate neighborhood health effects. In related research,
Dr. Mujahid examines the multi-level and multi-factorial determinants (from genes to neighborhoods) of the clustering of
cardiovascular risk factors in African Americans that contribute to the disproportionate burden of poor cardiovascular
health in this population group. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and published in leading public health and medical journals. Prior to joining the faculty at UC
Berkeley, Dr. Mujahid earned a BS in Mathematics from Xavier University, New Orleans LA, and an M.S. in Biostatistics
and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI. She was also a Robert Wood Johnson Health
and Society Scholar at Harvard University.
EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS
SESSION MODERATOR: Mike Griswold
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
[SESSION I - MARCH 17, 2016]
(Continued)
BIOGRAPHY – Abigail A. Sewell, MA, PhD
Presentation: Interrogating Institutional Gatekeepers:
Methods for Quantifying Supraindividual Racial Bias
Abigail A. Sewell, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Email: [email protected]
Abigail A. Sewell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Emory
University and a Vice Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Studies Center
at the University of Pennsylvania. Her expertise is in the political economy of racial
health disparities, the social psychology of health care disparities, and quantitative approaches to studying racial
inequality and supraindividual racism. Her most recent work explores the collateral consequences of mass incarceration
and the 21st century housing boom and bust. Her work has been published and is forthcoming in Social Science Research,
Journal of Urban Health, Du Bois Review, Race and Real Estate, the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and
Feminism and Psychology. Her work has garnered both quantitative and qualitative paper awards and received external
funding from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. In addition to teaching at Emory, she has taught
at Indiana University, the University of Mannheim (Germany), and the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
for Social Research, the University of Michigan. She received her PhD and MA in Sociology from Indiana University and
her BA summa cum laude in Sociology (Minor in Women’s Studies) from the University of Florida.
EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS
SESSION MODERATOR: Mike Griswold
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING HEALTH DISPARITIES
[ SESSION I - MARCH 17, 2016]
(Continued)
BIOGRAPHY – Whitney Robinson, PhD
Presentation: Interpreting “race" in regression models:
application of a causal framework in disparities research
Whitney Robinson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Gillings School of Public Health
University North Carolina
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Robinson is an epidemiologist who specializes in epidemiologic methods for
health disparities research. After training in cancer epidemiology and obesity
epidemiology, she received postdoctoral training in the social determinants of
health and health disparities through the RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program. She is currently funded by a National
Cancer Institute K01 Career Development Award. The focus of the award is methodologic approaches to move beyond
documenting health disparities in cancer-related morbidity to identifying modifiable factors underlying the disparities. In
addition, Dr. Robinson has expertise in the use of clinical and health services data for epidemiologic research. She is a
fellow in the Cancer Research Network Scholars Program. With her methodologic expertise, long-standing focus on
health disparities, substantive focus on health in Black American populations, and emerging expertise in health services
research, Dr. Robinson is ideally placed to conduct research investigating how racial differences in both everyday life and
clinical settings have long-term effects on racial and gender inequalities in obesity and cancer.
EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS
SESSION MODERATOR: Carlos Mendes de Leon
USING SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH
[ SESSION II - MARCH 17, 2016]
BIOGRAPHY – Theresa L. Osypuk, SD, SM
Presentation: Residential segregation and health disparities
scholarship: methodological challenges and translational
opportunities
Theresa L. Osypuk, SD, SM
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Theresa L. Osypuk, SD SM, is a social epidemiologist, whose research examines why
place and social policy influence health and health disparities. Dr. Osypuk is particularly
interested in the influence of racial residential segregation, neighborhood context, and
social and economic policies implemented outside of the health sector, for their effects on health disparities across the
life course. Dr. Osypuk is currently the principal investigator of several NIH grants investigating how Housing Choice
Vouchers and neighborhood context influence the health of families. She entered the public health field via
communications, by creating national public service campaigns to change attitudes and behavior related to public health
and social issues at The Advertising Council. Dr. Osypuk is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology
and Community Health, at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She earned her Masters and doctoral
degrees from Harvard School of Public Health, and trained as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society
Scholar at the University of Michigan.
EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS
SESSION MODERATOR: Carlos Mendes de Leon
USING SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH
[ SESSION II - MARCH 17, 2016]
(Continued)
BIOGRAPHY – Dustin T. Duncan, ScD
Presentation: Connecting Neighborhoods and Health
Disparities using Emerging Technologies
Dustin T. Duncan, ScD
Assistant Professor
Department of Population Health
New York University, School of Medicine
Email: [email protected]
Dustin T. Duncan, ScD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health
at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, where he directs the Spatial
Epidemiology Lab. At NYU, he is also a Faculty Affiliate at the College of Global Public
Health, the Population Center, the Center for Data Science, the Center for Health,
Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies, the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, Broome Street Residential College,
and NYU Abu Dhabi. Dr. Duncan is a Social and Spatial Epidemiologist, studying how specific neighborhood
characteristics influence population health and health disparities. His research has a strong domestic (U.S.) focus, but
recent work is beginning to span across the globe (including studies in Paris and London). Methodologically, his research
utilizes a geospatial lens to apply spatially explicit approaches such as computer-based geographic information systems
(GIS), web-based geospatial technologies, real-time geospatial technologies, and geospatial modeling techniques. For
instance, his work applies emerging geospatial technologies such as Global Positioning System (GPS) devices and
smartphones to, in part, examine mobility and social networks in neighborhoods. Dr. Duncan’s research appears in
leading public health, medical, geography, criminology, and demography journals. He has over 50 publications and book
chapters, and his research has appeared in major media outlets including the US News and World Report, The
Washington Post and The New York Times. Dr. Duncan’s recent work has been funded by the National Institutes of
Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Verizon Foundation, Aetna Foundation and HIV Prevention Trials Network
(HPTN). He is an Associate Editor of Behavioral Medicine and is on the Editorial Board of Spatial Demography, Geospatial
Health, and the American Journal of Health Promotion. Dr. Duncan completed both his doctorate and the Alonzo Smythe
Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship, both in Social Epidemiology, at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
EMPIRICAL PRESENTATIONS
SESSION MODERATOR: Carlos Mendes de Leon
USING SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH
[ SESSION II - MARCH 17, 2016] (Continued)
BIOGRAPHY - Megan Andrew, PhD
Presentation: The Many Social Dimensions of Residential
Segregation and Their Effects: The Case of Infant Health
Megan Andrew, PhD
Assistant Professor, Sociology
University of Notre Dame
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Andrew is a social demographer primarily interested in the intergenerational and
social psychological sources of (young) adults’ educational and health attainments.
Dr. Andrew's research draws on literatures in demography, sociology, economics,
psychology, and cognitive science and employs a wide range of econometric models,
including matching, fixed-effects, structural equation, and event history models. Dr.
Andrew is particularly interested in understanding how social influence in the family,
schools, and neighborhoods shape education and health inequalities. One strand of her research evaluates how family
contexts while growing up shape (young) adults’ subsequent socioeconomic and health attainments. In research
published in Social Forces, Social Science Research, and other journals and edited volumes, Dr. Andrew evaluates how
parents’ education and health determine their children’s adult socioeconomic attainments using sophisticated
econometric models and various national data sets. Dr. Andrew's research demonstrates the negative effects of a
parent’s serious health event on intergenerational financial transfers to children as well as the importance of parent’s
health behaviors for their young adult children’s health outcomes, especially in populations such as Latino immigrants in
the U.S. who have depressed socioeconomic attainments relative to their native-born counter parts due to countrydifferences in normative levels of education. Dr. Andrew also evaluates the social psychological mechanisms by which
social contexts shape young adults’ educational and health attainments. Her published research demonstrates that
adolescents’ formulate relatively inert expectations of their future educational attainments in young adulthood even in
the face of new information about their academic potential and contrary to popular Bayesian learning theories about
educational expectation formation. Dr. Andrew is currently working to extend her work to the neighborhood contexts of
adolescents’ and young adults’ education and health attainments. In this vein, she is developing projects on (1) how
adolescents maintain ties with their neighborhood friends as they enter new schools under popular school-choice
programs and the implications of these extant neighborhood ties and new school ties for their educational expectations
and their high school dropout, delinquency, and risky health behaviors and (2) how changing forms of residential
segregation shape young mothers’ and their infants’ birth outcomes.
NAVIGATING CAREER PATH
SESSION MODERATORS: Félice Lê –Scherban and Amanda Onwuka
PANEL DISCUSSION
[MARCH 18, 2016]
Dustin T. Duncan, ScD
Assistant Professor
Department of Population
Health
New York University, School of
Medicine
Whitney Robinson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Gillings School of Public
Health
University North Carolina
Theresa L. Osypuk, SD, SM
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and
Community Health
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Abigail A. Sewell, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Emory University
Megan Andrew, PhD
Assistant Professor, Sociology
University of Notre Dame
Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, PhD,
MPH
Assistant Professor
Thomas Jefferson University
Sandra Albrecht, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Nutrition
Gillings School of Global
Public Health
Faculty Fellow, Carolina
Pop Center University of
North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
MODERATORS:
Félice Lê –Scherban, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Amanda Onwuka, PhD-c
PhD Candidate, Dept. Epidemiology
School of Public Health, University of Michigan
NAVIGATING CAREER PATH
SESSION MODERATORS: Félice Lê –Scherban and Amanda Onwuka
ADDITIONAL PANELIST BIOs
[ MARCH 18, 2016]
Sandra S. Albrecht, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Nutrition
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Albrecht is a social and cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemiologist. Her research
is focused on understanding the social and biological determinants of obesity and
diabetes disparities in immigrants and in key Hispanic subpopulations. She is primarily working with data from the MultiEthnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), and the
Hispanic Community Health Survey/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), a large national cohort of U.S. Hispanics. Dr. Albrecht's
future work will also include conducting studies in the countries of origin of many U.S. Hispanics. Dr. Albrecht is most
interested in investigating whether the social (acculturation, socioeconomic status), behavioral (diet, activity), and
biological factors that influence diabetes and its precursors among U.S. Hispanics are also important predictors in Latin
America, a region where diabetes prevalence has risen markedly over the past decade.
Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Thomas Jefferson University
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Charnita Zeigler-Johnson is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology
at Thomas Jefferson University. Her research focuses on defining prostate cancer risk factors
and better understanding racial and socioeconomic disparities in the U.S. and developing
countries. Her specific interests include obesity, testosterone metabolism, inflammation,
clinical characteristics, neighborhood factors, and gene-environment interactions. Dr. Zeigler-Johnson serves as a Project
Director in the Center for Excellence in Disparities at the University of Pennsylvania and research collaborator for the
Prostate Genetics Research Study in Senegal, West Africa. Dr. Zeigler-Johnson is also a member of the African-Caribbean
Cancer Consortium and the Men of African Descent and Prostate Cancer Consortium. Dr. Zeigler-Johnson is currently
working with colleagues to develop interventions that will improve patient decision making about prostate cancer
screening and treatment.
NAVIGATING CAREER PATH
SESSION MODERATORS: Félice Lê –Scherban and Amanda Onwuka
MODERATOR BIOs
[ MARCH 18, 2016]
Félice Lê –Scherban, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor,
Dornsife School of Public Health
Drexel University
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Lê-Scherban received a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Michigan and an
MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her
research centers on health disparities with a focus on chronic disease disparities, life
course determinants, and immigrant health. She has a focus on epidemiological methods, particularly as they relate to
causal inference in social epidemiology. Her work has examined causal links between education and health;
intergenerational socioeconomic influences on mental and physical health; neighborhood social contexts; and
cardiovascular risk among immigrants.
Amanda Onwuka, PhD-c
PhD Candidate, Dept. Epidemiology
School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Email: [email protected]
Amanda Onwuka is a PhD-c student in the Department of Epidemiology. Her
dissertation will investigate psychosocial risk factors for cardiovascular disease among
Black Americans; Carlos Mendes de Leon and Ana Diez Roux chair her committee. Other
research interests fall broadly under the scope of social determinants of health and include police discrimination, youth
violence and infant mortality. Most recently, Amanda was a Public Health Prevention Service Fellow at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention where she was influential in the sodium reduction policy, tuberculosis surveillance,
emergency preparedness planning and also implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Prior to this experience, she was
a health educator in Dorchester, MA. She holds a BA in English and Community Health from Tufts University and an MPH
in Health Management and Policy, also from Tufts University.
Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities
and the Jackson Heart Study
SIXTH ANNUAL JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM
March 17 – 18, 2016 in Jackson, Mississippi
PRESENTING
“Methodological Challenges in Understanding Health”
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SIXTH ANNUAL JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM
PARTICIPANTS [alphabetical order]
NAME
POSITION/TITLE
INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION
The University of
Mississippi
JHS - Jackson State
University
Email
Addoh, Ovuokerie
Graduate Student
Afise, Embaneg
Student
Aiello, Allison
Professor of
Epidemiology, UNC
Chapel Hill
CIAHD Investigator
Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill
[email protected]
Albeely, Rashida
Research Assistant
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
Assistant Professor
UNC Chapel Hill
[email protected]
University of Notre Dame
[email protected]
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
Albrecht, Sandra
(PANELIST)
Andrew, Megan
(PRESENTER/PANELIST)
Antoine-LaVigne, Donna
Assistant Professor of
Sociology
PI Jackson Heart Study
Community Outreach
Center Jackson State
University
CIAHD Investigator
Anugu, Pramod
Aranmolate, Ayo
RA - Sarah Buxbaum
Assari, Shervin
Research Investigator
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
JHS - Jackson State
University
University of Michigan
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected];
[email protected]
[email protected]
NAME
Bascom, Karen
Bhuiyan, Azad
Blackshear, Chad
Brown, Darryl
Brown, Kristen
Butler-Williams, Crystal
Buxbaum , Sarah
Caldwell, Cleopatra
Castille, Dorothy
Correa, Adolfo
POSITION/TITLE
Health Science
Research Editor-Writer
Associate Professor of
Epidemiology Dept.
School of Public Health,
JSU
Biostatistician
Assistant Professor,
Health Management
and Policy
Doctoral Candidate,
Dept. Epidemiology
Project Administrator,
MPH
Assistant Professor
Core Director, CIAHDTEC
Program Official
NIH/Health Scientist
Administrator
Director and Principal
Investigator, JHS
CIAHD Investigator
Covington, Carolyn
INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION
Email
University of Mississippi
Medical Center
[email protected]
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
JHS – Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Drexel University
[email protected]
University of Michigan
[email protected]
JHS - Univ MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Jackson State University
[email protected]
University of Michigan
[email protected]
NIH\NIMHD
[email protected]
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Hope for a Healthier
World
[email protected]
Emory University
[email protected]
Crawford, Natalie
Assistant Professor
Crump, Mary
Clinic Manager, JHS
Dawkins, Milton
GTEC-Scholar
Diez Roux, Ana
(MODERATOR)
CIAHD, Principal
Investigator
Drexel University
[email protected]
Dorsey Smith, Cynthia
Consultant
Mississippi Public Health
Institute
[email protected]
Dudley, Amanda
CIAHD, Project
Manager
University of Michigan
[email protected]
Duncan, Dustin T.
(PRESENTER/PANELIST)
Assistant Professor
New York University
[email protected]
Ekunwe, Lynette
Research Associate
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
El-sadek, Lamees
Epidemiologist and
Program Evaluator
MSDH
[email protected]
Fields, Regina
Business Manager
Fortenberry, Marty
Community Outreach
Specialist - JHS
JHS - Jackson State
University
JHS - Jackson State
University
JHS - Jackson State
University
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
NAME
POSITION/TITLE
INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION
Email
Fuerstnau, Lynda
CIAHD - TEC,
Administrator
Furniss, Anna
Biostatistician
Gao, Yan
Biostatistician
Gates, Shamir
Licensed Master Social
Worker
JHS - My Brother's Keeper
[email protected]
Glover, La'Shaunta’
Research Assistant
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Griswold, Mike
(MODERATOR)
Professor & Director,
Ctr of Biostatistics &
Bioinformatics
CIAHD, UMMC-Sub PI
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Hawkins, Jackie
Bureau Director
Mississippi State
Department of Health
[email protected]
He, Ying
Program Evaluator
JHS - My Brother's Keeper
[email protected]
Henderson, Frances C.
CIAHD, Education
Consultant
Hernandez, Veronica
Graduate Student
JHS - Jackson State
University
JHS - Jackson State
University
University of Michigan
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
JHS – Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Chief Operating Officer
– MBK
CIAHD Investigator
JHS - My Brother's Keeper
[email protected]
Hill, Alethea
Nurse Practitioner
University of South
Alabama
[email protected]
Hussein, Mustafa
Postdoctoral Research
Fellow
Drexel University
[email protected]
Jackson, James
(MODERATOR)
CIAHD, Co-Director
University of Michigan
[email protected]
Harvard Medical School
[email protected]
JHS - My Brother's Keeper
[email protected]
University of Michigan
[email protected]
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
Northwestern University
[email protected]
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
University of Michigan
[email protected]
Hickson, DeMarc
Johnson, Dayna
Johnson, Angela
Johnson-Lawrence, Vicki
Postdoctoral Research
Fellow
Director of Research,
Evaluation, and
Environmental and
Policy Change
Assistant Professor,
Public Health & Health
Sciences
Kelley, James
Kershaw, Kiarri
Assistant Professor
Khandekar, Shamim
Lacey, Krim
Research Investigator
NAME
POSITION/TITLE
INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION
Email
Lacy, Mary
Doctoral Candidate
Brown University
[email protected]
LeBron, Alana
Postdoctoral Research
Fellow
University of Michigan
[email protected]
Assistant Professor
Drexel University
[email protected]
Associate Professor
Emory University
[email protected]
Sr. Program Manager
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
JHS - My Brother's Keeper
[email protected]
University of Michigan
[email protected]
Mississippi State
Department of Health
[email protected]
Drexel University
[email protected];marysnut@gmail.
com
NIH\NHLBI
[email protected]
Lê-Scherban, Félice
(MODERATOR)
Lewis, Tené
(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)
McCoy, Pamela
Mendes de Leon, Carlos
(MODERATOR)
Research Evaluation
Specialist
CIAHD, Co-Principal
Investigator
Mendy, Vincent
Epidemiologist
McNair, Obie
Menezes, Mariana
Mensah, George
(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)
Mezuk, Briana
Visiting Research
Scholar
Director, Center for
Translation Research
and Implementation
Science (CTRIS); Acting
Director, Division of
Cardiovascular Sciences
NIH NHLBI
Associate professor
CIAHD Investigator
Virginia Commonwealth
University
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Min, Nancy
Epidemiologist
Momplaisir, Florence
Assistant Professor
Drexel University
[email protected]
Moore, Kari
Statistician Sr.
CIAHD Investigator
Drexel University
[email protected]
Mouzon, Dawne
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
[email protected]
Mujahid, Mahasin
(PRESENTER)
Associate Director for
Research
Assistant Professor of
Epidemiology
Mwasongwe, Stanford
Epidemiologist
JHS - Jackson State
University
University of California
Berkeley
JHS - Jackson State
University
JHS - Jackson State
University
JHS - Univ MS Medical
Center
JHS - Jackson State
University
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
Mozee, Jr., Sam
Nichols, Joshua
Norwood, Arnita
Odom, Darcel
Okhomina, Victoria
Assistant Professor
Health Education
Specialist
Clinical Data
Programmer
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
NAME
Onwuka, Amanda
(MODERATOR)
Osypuk, Theresa L.
(PRESENTER/PANELIST)
POSITION/TITLE
INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION
Email
Doctoral Candidate,
Dept. Epidemiology
University of Michigan
[email protected]
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
[email protected]
JHS - Jackson State
University
University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Price, Vanessa
GTEC-Scholar
Redmond, Nicole
Assistant Professor
Robinson, Whitney
(PRESENTER/PANELIST)
Assistant Professor
University North Carolina
[email protected]
Roth, Alexis
Assistant Professor
Drexel University
[email protected]
Sanchez, Brisa
CIAHD-Research Core,
Co-Director
University of Michigan
[email protected]
Seals, Samantha
Biostatistician III
Sealy-Jefferson,
Shawnita
Sewell, Abigail
(PRESENTER/PANELIST)
Assistant Professor
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
Virginia Commonwealth
University
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Assistant Professor
Emory University
[email protected]
Sims, Mario
CIAHD, UMMC-Sub PI
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Slaughter, Jaime
Assistant Professor
Drexel University
[email protected]
Smith, Jennifer
CIAHD-Research Core,
Research Assistant
Professor
University of Michigan
[email protected]
Smith, Princeton
GTEC-Scholar
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
Sng, Eveleen
Graduate Student
University of Mississippi
[email protected]
Stokes, Ester
Visiting Assistant
Professor
JHS - Jackson State
University
JHS - Jackson State
University
Tabb, Loni
Assistant Professor
Drexel University
[email protected]
Tingle, Jonathan
Statistical Analyst
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Emory University
[email protected]
Stewart, Alyce
Van Dyke, Miriam
Vines, Anissa
PhD Epidemiology
Student
Research Assistant
Professor
Walker, Evelyn R.
(KEYNOTE SPEAKER)
ICM Medical Director
Wang, Steven (Xu)
Data Analyst
Programmer
CIAHD Investigator
Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill
Mississippi United
Healthcare Community
and State
Drexel University
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
NAME
Wang, Wei
Ward, Julia
Watkins, LaDaryl
West, Nancy
Wilson, Sr., Gregory
Winters, Karen
Woodberry, Clevette
POSITION/TITLE
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Research
Fellow
Regional Project
Coordinator
Assistant Professor
Senior Programmer
Analyst
CIAHD Investigator
Director of Data
Acquisition, JHS
Administrative
Assistant
INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill
Email
[email protected]
[email protected]
JHS - My Brother's Keeper
[email protected]
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
JHS – Univ of MS Medical
Center
JHS - Jackson State
University
[email protected]
[email protected]
Young, Bessie
Professor
University of Washington
[email protected]
Zeigler-Johnson,
Charnita
(PANELIST)
Assistant Professor of
Population Science
Thomas Jefferson
University
[email protected]
Director/Office of
Health Data and
Research
Mississippi State
Department of Health
[email protected]
JHS - Univ of MS Medical
Center
[email protected]
Zhang, Lei
Zhang, Xu