Briana Mezuk, Sarah Burgard Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US, with over 42,000 cases annually. There is an urgent need to identify modifiable risk factors that can inform public health prevention strategies. This research seeks to leverage and integrate several existing datasets to support novel secondary analyses aimed at identifying… Continue reading Aging, Major Life Transitions, and Suicide Risk
Project Category: POPULATION HEALTH, LIFE COURSE, AND BIOSOCIAL PROCESSES
Long-Term Mobility and Wellbeing of New Orleans Residents after Hurricane Katrina
Narayan Sastry Two key tasks will be undertaken at the University of Michigan as part of this project. First, we will collaborate with the Elizabeth Fussell and other staff at Brown University as well as with staff at the U.S. Census Bureau to design and implement the analysis of linked data from the Decennial Census,… Continue reading Long-Term Mobility and Wellbeing of New Orleans Residents after Hurricane Katrina
Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Students’ Gains in Achievement in Nepal
Dirgha Ghimire This project aims to develop and validate measures of accountability to be shared with the Nepal Ministry of Education (MOE), local stakeholders and scientific communities, and to use those measures in an analysis of the determinants of accountability and its association with students’ gains in achievement. The proposed study will build on the… Continue reading Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Students’ Gains in Achievement in Nepal
Economic distress and growing educational disparities in life expectancy: Weathering, high effort coping, and despair
Arline T. Geronimus Researchers have used a variety of data sources and methodologies to independently document two disturbing trends: a halt to universal gains in life expectancy (LE) across US subpopulations, and a subsequent rise in educational inequality in LE since 1990—both of which take us further from achieving the high-priority national public health objective… Continue reading Economic distress and growing educational disparities in life expectancy: Weathering, high effort coping, and despair
Understanding the Connections among Genes, Environment, Family Processes, and Mental Health
William G. Axinn Psychiatric disorders are the leading source of disability worldwide and affect 53% of the U.S. population. In addition to the individual suffering they entail, disabilities associated with these disorders may have substantial consequences for family and health outcomes. This includes long-term consequences for family formation and dissolution behaviors. Dissecting the relationship among… Continue reading Understanding the Connections among Genes, Environment, Family Processes, and Mental Health
Scientific and Technical Core
Brady T. West A sub-project of Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences– The objective of the Scientific and Technical Core (STC) is to advance the overarching objective of this P2C proposal – to design, create, and use new data to advance population science – by enhancing methods used for all three activities, and by providing… Continue reading Scientific and Technical Core
Administrative Core
Sarah Burgard A sub-project of Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences: The Administrative Core (AC) supports work in all of the Population Studies Center’s (PSC) primary research areas (PRAs) and advances the overarching objective of this P2C application – to support research to design, create, and analyze new data to advance population science. The AC… Continue reading Administrative Core
Development Core
Sarah Burgard The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Michigan provides critical research infrastructure to promote the interdisciplinary study of human population dynamics, with a focus on the areas of demography, population health and reproductive health. PSC supports the design, creation, and use of new data that can be used to inform interventions… Continue reading Development Core
Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences
Sarah Burgard The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Michigan provides critical research infrastructure to promote the interdisciplinary study of human population dynamics, with a focus on the areas of demography, population health and reproductive health. PSC supports the design, creation, and use of new data that can be used to inform interventions… Continue reading Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences
Effects of Financial Sanctions in the Criminal Justice System
Michael Mueller-Smith The use of legal financial obligations, colloquially referred to as financial sanctions, imposed on individuals who come into contact with the criminal justice system is widespread and growing in the U.S. criminal justice system. These fees and fines could generate serious social and economic consequences, particularly among low-income populations who are unable to pay… Continue reading Effects of Financial Sanctions in the Criminal Justice System