As international labor migration becomes a more common livelihood strategy globally, this widespread population and social change has profound demographic and health consequences, including for young children left behind by migrating parents or family members. Many children left behind receive remittance income from migrant parents or family members. However, identifying the effects of this additional… Continue reading Migration, family context, and child health
Research Theme: Life Course
Aging & Biopsychosocial Innovations
The overall purpose of this research program is to understand how stress and social contexts affect health and the biopsychosocial factors that account for those links. We seek to foster a multidisciplinary collaboration that capitalizes on advances in mobile technology and biopsychosocial methods to gain better understanding of social, psychological and biological factors influencing healthy… Continue reading Aging & Biopsychosocial Innovations
Sol,Ketlyne
Dr. Sol is a clinical psychologist with clinical training emphasis in rehabilitation psychology. Her research interests are in ethnic minority health and disparities in cognitive aging and dementia using large epidemiological datasets for longitudinal analyses.
Josh Ehrlich
Dr. Ehrlich is an ophthalmologist and population health researcher. His research is focused on understanding and addressing the adverse impact of vision impairment and blindness on health, disability, and quality-of-life, with a particular focus on older adults. He is the principal investigator of NIH funded research in this field, and also collaborates with a number… Continue reading Josh Ehrlich
Prenatal Exposures and Child Health Outcomes: A Statewide Study
This project will include investigators at five Michigan institutions and will focus on three primary aims: AIM 1: To investigate the effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals, assessed across two generations, on ECHO outcomes. AIM 2: To assess the effect of maternal nutritional/weight status in pregnancy on ECHO outcomes. AIM 3: To… Continue reading Prenatal Exposures and Child Health Outcomes: A Statewide Study
Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD)
Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD) aims to foster and enhance innovative research in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) with the long term goals to 1) advance ADRD-relevant social and behavioral science research in underserved and underrepresented communities while; 2) diversify the research workforce dedicated to healthy aging. This center will… Continue reading Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD)
Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Enhancing the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC)
The goal of this project is to build upon the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the National Study of Caregiving to provide new national data that will enhance understanding of caregiving for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Aims are to: 1. Re-interview caregivers that participated in the 2015 NSOC… Continue reading Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Enhancing the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC)
Alzheimer’s Disease Risk and Ethnic Factors: The Case of Arab Americans
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) afflicts 11% of the U.S. population aged 65 and over, and half of these cases go undiagnosed. The incidence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD is higher among many racial/ ethnic minorities, but rates among Arab Americans, who possess more cardiovascular risk factors than whites, are unknown. The first of its… Continue reading Alzheimer’s Disease Risk and Ethnic Factors: The Case of Arab Americans
Rowan,Brian P
Brian Rowan is the Burke A. Hinsdale Collegiate Professor in Education, a research professor at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, and a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. A sociologist by training (PhD, Stanford University), Rowan’s research has focused on the organization and management of schooling, paying special attention to… Continue reading Rowan,Brian P
Fresco,David Marc
David M. Fresco is Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). His program of research adopts an affective neuroscience perspective to conduct basic, translational, and treatment studies of anxiety and mood disorders, particularly distress disorders (e.g., major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder) incorporating methodologies including… Continue reading Fresco,David Marc