Oakes J. Michael - Methods in Social Epidemiology

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Oakes, J. Michael, 1967- editor. | Kaufman, Jay S., 1963- editor.

Title: Methods in social epidemiology / J. Michael Oakes, Jay S. Kaufman, editors.

Description: Second edition. | San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer Imprint, Wiley, 2017 | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016045214 (print) | LCCN 2016045553 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118505595 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781118603727 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118603734 (epub)

Subjects: | MESH: Epidemiologic Methods | Social Medicine

Classification: LCC RA418 (print) | LCC RA418 (ebook) | NLM WA 950 | DDC 614.4dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045214

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Jay S. Kaufman, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University. Dr. Kaufman's research focuses on social determinants of health and health disparities, and estimating the causal effects of population interventions.

J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, and Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Interdisciplinary Leaders Program. His research and teaching interests include social epidemiology, quantitative methodology, and research ethics, and he has received the school's highest awards for teaching as well as advising and mentoring.

Jennifer Ahern, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. She examines the effects of the social and physical environment, and programs and policies that alter the social and physical environment, on many aspects of health (e.g., violence, substance use, mental health, and gestational health). Dr. Ahern has a methodological focus to her work, including application of causal inference methods and semi-parametric estimation approaches, aimed at improving the rigor of observational research and optimizing public health intervention planning. Her research is supported by a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of the Director.

Kate E. Andrade, M.P.H., is a doctoral candidate in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota. Her interests include applied research methods for social epidemiology, causal inference, and consequential epidemiology. Her dissertation work is exploring different analytic techniques in neighborhood effect studies.

David M. Betson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame. His research examines the impact of government on the distribution of income and wealth in the United States with a particular focus on the measurement of poverty. He was a member of the NRC Panel on Poverty Measurement that in 1995 issued a series of recommendations that has led to the new Supplemental Poverty Measure.

Melody L. Boyd, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. Her research focuses on urban poverty, housing, neighborhoods, race, and social policy.

Magdalena Cerd, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of emergency medicine at the University of California at Davis School of Medicine. In her research, Magdalena integrates approaches from social and psychiatric epidemiology to examine how social contexts shape violent behavior, substance use, and common forms of mental illness. Her research focuses primarily on two areas: (1) the causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and (2) the social and policy determinants of substance use from childhood to adulthood.

Stefanie DeLuca, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research uses sociological perspectives to inform education and housing policy. She has carried out mixed-methods studies that incorporate qualitative research into experimental or quasi-experimental designs. Her new book address the children of the Moving to Opportunity Study as they transition to adulthood in Baltimore: Coming of Age in the Other America.

M. Maria Glymour, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Glymour's work focuses on evaluating social determinants of healthy aging, emphasizing methods to overcome causal inference challenges in observational data.

Peter J. Hannan, M.Stat., was a Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Mr. Hannan's research interests included methodological issues with clustering in community trials, multiple imputations, Bayesian statistical analysis, and correspondence analysis. He was involved with the Minnesota Heart Health Program, was a statistical consultant to David Murray's classic text Design and Analysis of Group Randomized Trials, and has done statistical analysis and power calculation sections for many group randomized trials implemented in the Division, and collaborated on a number of methodological papers in his research interest areas. He is widely recognized as a leader in the design and analysis of community trials. Mr. Hannan died from natural causes on September 28, 2015.