Author Archives: Andrew

Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence and Young Adulthood, Gender and the Development of Type 2 Diabetes

The American Journal of Epidemiology just published research by Shakira Suglia finding that high depression symptoms in both adolescence and adulthood are associated with onset of Type II diabetes among women. Among men however an opposite effect was noted in that … Continue reading

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Unequal depression for equal work?

Current doctoral students Jonathan Platt and Seth Prins, along with Cluster faculty Lisa Bates and Katherine Keyes recently reported that structural workplace discrimination, measured as the presence of a gender wage gap, largely explained higher rates of mood disorders among … Continue reading

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Neighborhood Social Environment and Obesity

Numerous studies have examined the relation between features of the neighborhood built environment and obesity related behaviors or obesity itself, to the extent that Healthy People 2020 includes goals for neighborhood built environment interventions to support physical activity. The neighborhood … Continue reading

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Stigma and the Etiology of Depression among the Obese

Current Social Epidemiology Cluster doctoral student Steve Mooney and former Cluster faculty member Abdulrahman El-Sayed recently published a paper in Social Science & Medicine showing that a weight-stigma mechanism could explain the finding that depression among the obese is more … Continue reading

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Social Epi Radio: The Selecter

Dr. Michael Friedman’s interview at Psychology Today with Pauline Black, lead singer for The Selecter, and Steve Shafer’s recent review of The Selecter’s new record, Subculture, are vivid reminders of the social issues highlighted by Ms. Black, The Selecter, and … Continue reading

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Launching the Social Epidemiology Twitter Feed

We have launched a Twitter feed (@CU_SocialEpi) as a companion to our Blog and social media presences.  Folake Eniola and John Pamplin will be leading our efforts to contribute to conversations on Twitter. Click the button in our sidebar to … Continue reading

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Exploring How Residents of NYC Use Neighborhood Spaces

The Built Environment and Health team (including Cluster members Lovasi and Rundle) just published a paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showing that differences in urban design in New York City (NYC) are associated with how residents utilize their residential neighborhood … Continue reading

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Hey Mr. Sandman: dyadic effects of anxiety, depressive symptoms and sleep among married couples

Rundle and colleagues have been developing a series of projects studying how health and health behaviors are transmitted between members of married and domestic partnered couples.  The first in a series of papers on this topic, “Hey Mr. Sandman: dyadic … Continue reading

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Sir Michael Marmot and Mark Bertolini: Confronting the Health Gap

Sir Michael Marmot and Mark Bertolini (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Aetna) speaking at the Mailman School of Public Health Grand Rounds on Confronting the Health Gap.  Archived Live Stream [Here].    

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Understanding the Healthy Immigrant Effect and Cardiovascular Disease: Looking to Big Data and Beyond

Lisa Bates and colleagues just published an editorial in Circulation on the “Healthy Immigrant Effect” – the better health outcomes observed among immigrants as compared to their native born peers.  Their editorial comments on research from the Cardiovascular Health in Ambulatory Care Research Team (CANHEART) … Continue reading

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