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:
Marika Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Maya Rossin-Slater, Molly Schnell, and Hannes Schwandt. 2020. Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes (WP-20-58).
Katherine Amato, Gregory Miller, Christopher Kuzawa, et al.. 2020. The Human Microbiome and Health Inequities (WP-20-44).
Thomas McDade and Stephanie Koning. 2020. Early Origins of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Inflammation: Evaluating the Contributions of Low Birth Weight and Short Breastfeeding (WP-20-41).
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
Network Canvas: A Tool for Capturing Complex Data
Michelle Birkett, Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine and IPR Associate
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: Costs of Upward Mobility?
Edith Chen, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair, Professor of Psychology, IPR Fellow, and Co-Director of the Foundations of Health Research Center