Population Health Across Time, Generations, and the Life Course
Population scientists are uniquely equipped to investigate the myriad influences driving population-level trends in health over time, the processes connecting health across generations, and the factors linking health across the life course. Faculty fellows who study health and health-related processes have projects ranging from incorporating biomarker, epigenetic, and GWAS measures into population science approaches to considering early life course exposures and subsequent mental and physical health to identifying the population-level drivers and implications of chronic and infectious disease, obesity, and (mal)nutrition.
Associated Current and Recently Completed Projects
A large-scale quasi-experimental evaluation of added sugar warning labels in restaurants
In August 2023, New York City (NYC), NY became the first jurisdiction in the US to adopt an added sugar warning label policy, which requires restaurants to display a warning label on menus next to items high in added sugar. The adoption of this policy…
A Multimethod Examination of Conditionally Admitted Kindergartners and School Entry Vaccination Requirements
There is little understanding of when, why, and where children are falling behind on vaccinations. Our research aims to fill this knowledge gap by examining provisional enrollment in school-age children. While there has been considerable prior research on vaccine hesitancy and NME use, to our…
Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health)
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently…
Add Health Epigenome Resource: Life course stressors and epigenomic modifications in adulthood
The overall goals of this project are to investigate the influence of life course psychosocial stressors on DNA methylation and gene expression that may influence cardiometabolic health and depression in a US representative study of young adults. The findings from this study will have significant…
Add Health GWAS Data: User Support and Research Tools to Enable Widespread Access
This project is developing tools to enable widespread access to and use of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data among respondents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). The intent is to make Add Health GWAS data more easily accessible, straightforward…