Social Disparities and Health
A pressing policy problem in the United States and other countries is the extraordinary pattern of inequality in the health of children and adults. These health disparities are widespread and not easily explained. Faculty in IPR’s Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health are forging new paths to create better understanding of, and improvement in, human health and social outcomes. They recognize that such an effort requires complex modeling of the interplay between biological processes and environmental influences. To this end, they coalesce around the Center’s mission to:
- bring together the social, life, and biomedical sciences to understand the origins, consequences, and policy solutions for contemporary health inequalities in the United States; and
- examine how broad social, race/ethnic, and economic disparities "get under the skin" and affect human development and physical health.
A Message from Thomas McDade, Program Chair and C2S Director
Working Papers
Recently published articles and working papers in this program area include:
Alfredo Burlando, Pradeep Chintagunta, Jessica Goldberg, Melissa Graboyes, Peter Hangoma, Dean Karlan, Mario Macis, and Silvia Prina. 2022. Replication and Adaptation of Incentivized Peer Outreach: From Tuberculosis in India to COVID-19 in Zambia (WP-22-39).
Jessica Polos, Stephanie Koning, Taylor Hargrove, Kiarri Kershaw, and Thomas McDade. 2022. Structural Racism in School Contexts and Adolescent Depression: Development of New Indices for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and Beyond (WP-22-26).
Jon Green, James Druckman, Matthew Baum, David Lazer, Katherine Ognyanova, and Roy Perlis. 2022. Depressive Symptoms and Conspiracy Beliefs (WP-22-22).
Faculty Experts
Faculty come from the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, biomedical sciences, pediatrics, and preventive medicine, in addition to other social science and medical fields.
Events
The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on U.S. Fertility
Hannes Schwandt, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and IPR Fellow
Twenty-Five Years of Health Services Research Using Illinois Hospital Data
Joe Feinglass, Research Professor of Medicine and IPR Associate
Re-envisioning Water Security from the Human Perspective: Integrating a New Indicator into Science and Policy
Sera Young, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health and IPR Fellow