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As a companion to the Mass Incarceration Info-Graphic we have posted a three-hour mix of songs, anchored by tracks from Angela Davis’ spoken word album “The Prison Industrial Complex”. The mix reflects how themes of incarceration, policing and drug sentencing … Continue reading →

A new paper from Lawrence Yang, Michael Phillips, and Xianyun Li  entitled “Marriage outcome and relationship with urban versus rural context for individuals with psychosis in a population-based study in China.” was just published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Social … Continue reading →

“The population strategy of prevention operates through the medical services at the level of the proximal causes of illness, but has to operate on a much wider base in order to confront those far more potent underlying influences, ‘the causes … Continue reading →

The 2015 SER Annual Conference is June 16-19 in Denver Colorado.  Several Cluster faculty and students will be attending and you can see the following talks from faculty: Wednesday Keyes – Modeling the effects of alcohol taxation on rates of … Continue reading →

Dr. Gina Lovasi and her team are working to adapt standard methods for social epidemiologic research for use in resource constrained settings.  Her work in an informal community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil does not have the benefit of readily available … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Social Epidemiology Cluster’s new blog and website.  The Cluster is one of the six thematic units within the Mailman School of Public Health‘s Department of Epidemiology. Social epidemiology cluster faculty members seek to understand the ways in … Continue reading →