Jennifer Dowd
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American social scientist and researcher
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Jennifer Dowd's Degrees
- PhD Sociology Princeton University
- Masters Sociology Princeton University
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jennifer Beam Dowd is an American social scientist who is a Professor of Demography and Population Health and deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the social determinants of health and the relationship between infections and immune function. She is a member of Those Nerdy Girls, an all-woman team of public health researchers who are relaying COVID-19 information as part of Dear Pandemic.
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Published Works
- Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19 (2020) (764)
- Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world (2020) (373)
- Seropositivity to Cytomegalovirus, Inflammation, All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease-Related Mortality in the United States (2011) (342)
- Does the predictive power of self-rated health for subsequent mortality risk vary by socioeconomic status in the US? (2007) (326)
- Socio-economic status, cortisol and allostatic load: a review of the literature. (2009) (314)
- The Impact of Bisphenol A and Triclosan on Immune Parameters in the U.S. Population, NHANES 2003–2006 (2010) (289)
- Reliability of self-rated health in US adults. (2011) (280)
- Cytomegalovirus antibody levels, inflammation, and mortality among elderly Latinos over 9 years of follow-up. (2010) (253)
- Accessible, curated metagenomic data through ExperimentHub (2017) (217)
- Socioeconomic disparities in the seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in the US population: NHANES III (2008) (188)
- Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now (2020) (185)
- Seroprevalence of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in U.S. Children Ages 6-19, 2003-2010 (2013) (178)
- Does self-rated health mean the same thing across socioeconomic groups? Evidence from biomarker data. (2010) (168)
- Early origins of health disparities: burden of infection, health, and socioeconomic status in U.S. children. (2009) (165)
- Does self-reported health bias the measurement of health inequalities in U.S. adults? Evidence using anchoring vignettes from the Health and Retirement Study. (2011) (147)
- Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries (2021) (138)
- Sleep duration, sleep quality, and biomarkers of inflammation in a Taiwanese population. (2011) (137)
- Neighborhood-level stressors, social support, and diurnal patterns of cortisol: the Chicago Community Adult Health Study. (2012) (115)
- Predictors of inflammation in U.S. children aged 3-16 years. (2010) (107)
- Do biomarkers of stress mediate the relation between socioeconomic status and health? (2006) (102)
- Socioeconomic and race/ethnic patterns in persistent infection burden among U.S. adults. (2009) (92)
- Is life expectancy really falling for groups of low socio-economic status? Lagged selection bias and artefactual trends in mortality. (2014) (90)
- Employment and income losses among cancer survivors: Estimates from a national longitudinal survey of American families (2015) (88)
- Socioeconomic Differentials in Immune Response (2009) (86)
- Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist (2021) (82)
- Deeper and wider: income and mortality in the USA over three decades. (2011) (82)
- Socioeconomic gradients in immune response to latent infection. (2007) (73)
- Persistent pathogens linking socioeconomic position and cardiovascular disease in the US. (2009) (69)
- Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis (2021) (69)
- Socioeconomic Status and the Gut Microbiome: A TwinsUK Cohort Study (2019) (67)
- Persistent viral pathogens and cognitive impairment across the life course in the third national health and nutrition examination survey. (2014) (64)
- Consistent associations between measures of psychological stress and CMV antibody levels in a large occupational sample (2014) (62)
- Did national folic acid fortification reduce socioeconomic and racial disparities in folate status in the US? (2008) (56)
- Family poverty is associated with cytomegalovirus antibody titers in U.S. children. (2012) (56)
- Early childhood origins of the income/health gradient: the role of maternal health behaviors. (2007) (53)
- Race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in stress and immune function in The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. (2014) (52)
- Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales (2020) (44)
- Childhood obesity and human capital accumulation. (2012) (41)
- Housing wealth, psychological well-being, and cognitive functioning of older Americans. (2014) (41)
- Persistent Herpesvirus Infections and Telomere Attrition Over 3 Years in the Whitehall II Cohort (2017) (39)
- Discovering how environmental exposures alter genes could lead to new treatments for chronic illnesses. (2011) (37)
- The social underpinnings of mental distress in the time of COVID-19 – time for urgent action (2020) (37)
- Socio-demographic and epidemiological consideration of Africa’s COVID-19 response: what is the possible pandemic course? (2020) (35)
- PTSD is associated with an increase in aged T cell phenotypes in adults living in Detroit (2016) (35)
- Fibrinogen may mediate the association between long sleep duration and coronary heart disease (2013) (35)
- “Under the Skin” and into the Gut: Social Epidemiology of the Microbiome (2018) (33)
- Education and Levels of Salivary Cortisol Over the Day in US Adults (2011) (32)
- Social and population health science approaches to understand the human microbiome (2018) (32)
- Sociodemographic variation in the oral microbiome. (2017) (32)
- Long-term obesity and cardiovascular, inflammatory, and metabolic risk in U.S. adults. (2014) (30)
- Cytomegalovirus is associated with reduced telomerase activity in the Whitehall II cohort (2013) (30)
- Evaluation of Oral Cavity DNA Extraction Methods on Bacterial and Fungal Microbiota (2019) (30)
- HMP16SData: Efficient Access to the Human Microbiome Project through Bioconductor (2018) (29)
- Trends in the Relationship Between Obesity and Disability, 1988–2012 (2017) (29)
- Cytomegalovirus antibodies in dried blood spots: a minimally invasive method for assessing stress, immune function, and aging (2011) (28)
- Overweight adults may have the lowest mortality--do they have the best health? (2011) (25)
- Early life socioeconomic position and immune response to persistent infections among elderly Latinos. (2016) (24)
- Whiners, deniers, and self-rated health: what are the implications for measuring health inequalities? A commentary on Layes, et al. (2012) (23)
- Tobacco exposure associated with oral microbiota oxygen utilization in the New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Study (2018) (23)
- Life expectancy changes since COVID-19 (2022) (22)
- Long-term obesity and physical functioning in older Americans (2014) (21)
- Longer schooling but not better off? A quasi-experimental study of the effect of compulsory schooling on biomarkers in France. (2019) (20)
- Income and Markers of Immunological Cellular Aging (2016) (19)
- Early evidence that social distancing and public health interventions flatten the COVID-19 curve in Italy (2020) (17)
- Socioeconomic status and central adiposity as determinants of stress-related biological responses relevant to cardiovascular disease risk (2019) (17)
- Early signs of gut microbiome aging: biomarkers of inflammation, metabolism, and macromolecular damage in young adulthood. (2020) (16)
- Sick Individuals and Sick (Microbial) Populations: Challenges in Epidemiology and the Microbiome. (2020) (14)
- Unpacking the ‘black box’ of total pathogen burden: is number or type of pathogens most predictive of all-cause mortality in the United States? (2014) (13)
- Recent Gains in Life Expectancy Reversed by the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (13)
- The Long Arm of Adolescent Health Among Men and Women: Does Attained Status Explain Its Association with Mid-Adulthood Health? (2015) (13)
- Estimating the burden of COVID-19 on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: A population-level study (2020) (13)
- Differences in the association between persistent pathogens and mood disorders among young- to middle-aged women and men in the U.S. (2018) (13)
- Consistency and precision of cancer reporting in a multiwave national panel survey (2010) (13)
- Pharmacologic androgen deprivation and cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review (2015) (12)
- Elevated HbA1c levels and the accumulation of differentiated T cells in CMV+ individuals (2015) (11)
- Socio-economic Status and Immunosenescence (2013) (10)
- Bounce backs amid continued losses: Life expectancy changes since COVID-19 (2022) (10)
- The impact of pathogen burden on leukocyte telomere length in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (2017) (10)
- Physical health effects of the housing boom: quasi-experimental evidence from the health and retirement study. (2013) (10)
- Dear Pandemic: Nurses as key partners in fighting the COVID‐19 infodemic (2021) (10)
- Immune Response to Cytomegalovirus and Cognition in the Health and Retirement Study. (2020) (9)
- Happiness and health among U.S. working adults: is the association explained by socio-economic status? (2014) (9)
- Strengthening The Organization and Reporting of Microbiome Studies (STORMS): A Reporting Checklist for Human Microbiome Research (2020) (8)
- A systematic review of the impact of psychosocial factors on immunity: Implications for enhancing BCG response against tuberculosis (2019) (8)
- Dangerous to claim “no clear association” between intergenerational relationships and COVID-19 (2020) (7)
- Pathogen burden and leukocyte telomere length in the United States (2020) (7)
- Lessons Learned From Dear Pandemic, a Social Media–Based Science Communication Project Targeting the COVID-19 Infodemic (2022) (7)
- The Mental Health Benefits of Acquiring a Home in Older Age: A Fixed-Effects Analysis of Older US Adults (2018) (6)
- Reconstructing Sociogenomics Research: Dismantling Biological Race and Genetic Essentialism Narratives (2021) (6)
- Reply to Nepomuceno et al.: A renewed call for detailed social and demographic COVID-19 data from all countries (2020) (6)
- Re: Childhood adversity and cell-mediated immunity in young adulthood (2013) (6)
- Social determinants and BCG efficacy: a call for a socio-biological approach to TB prevention (2018) (4)
- Life Course Socioeconomic Disadvantage and the Aging Immune System: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. (2020) (4)
- Sociodemographic patterning in the oral microbiome of a diverse sample of New Yorkers (2017) (4)
- Author's response Response to Is the use of self-rated health measures to assess health inequalities misleading? (2008) (4)
- Contribution Cytomegalovirus Antibody Levels , Inflammation , and Mortality Among Elderly Latinos Over 9 Years of Follow-up (2010) (3)
- Gut bacterial taxonomic abundances vary with cognition, personality, and mood in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (2020) (3)
- Helicobacter pylori is associated with lower androgen activity among men in NHANES III (2013) (3)
- Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality (2022) (3)
- The UK’s covid-19 data collection has been “world beating”—let’s not throw it away (2022) (3)
- Fight Like a Nerdy Girl: The Dear Pandemic Playbook for Combating Health Misinformation (2022) (2)
- Life Expectancy and Education. (2015) (2)
- Structural adjustment programmes and communicable disease burdens: causal evidence from 187 countries (2021) (2)
- Strengthening The Organizing and Reporting of Microbiome Studies (STORMS) (2020) (2)
- BugSigDB: accelerating microbiome research through systematic comparison to published microbial signatures (2022) (1)
- Association Between Immune Response to Cytomegalovirus and Cognition in the Health and Retirement Study (2021) (1)
- Early origins of health disparities : infectious burden and socioeconomic status in U . S . children (2008) (1)
- Reply to Mendy. (2014) (1)
- The Mental Health Benefits of Acquiring a Home in Older Age: A Fixed-Effects Analysis of Older Americans (2017) (1)
- Mid-life 'Deaths of Despair' Trends in the US, Canada, and UK, 2001-2019: Is the US an Anomaly? (2022) (1)
- Structural adjustment programmes and infectious disease mortality (2022) (1)
- Considering the Inclusion of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Markers in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2009) (1)
- Is life expectancy really falling for low SES groups? Lagged selection bias and artifactual trends in mortality (2014) (1)
- Socioeconomic and race/ethnic differences in immunosenescence: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (2022) (1)
- Socio-demographic and epidemiological consideration of Africa’s COVID-19 response: what is the possible pandemic course? (2020) (1)
- The association between vitamin D deficiency, folate deficiency and seropositivity to persistent pathogens among U.S. children (2010) (0)
- Coding of Obesity-related Mortality Impacts Estimates of Obesity on U.S. Life Expectancy (2022) (0)
- Increases in ‘deaths of despair’ during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and the United Kingdom (2023) (0)
- Dear Pandemic: A topic modeling analysis of COVID-19 information needs among readers of an online science communication campaign (2023) (0)
- SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES IN IMMUNOSENESCENCE IN OLDER AGE: EVIDENCE FROM THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY (2022) (0)
- Sociodemographic Differences in Population-Level Immunosenescence in Older Age (2022) (0)
- Title: Srh and Hrqol: Does Social Position Impact Differently on Their Link with Health Status? (0)
- Re: "Body mass and weight change in adults in relation to mortality risk". (2014) (0)
- Evaluation of Oral Cavity DNA Extraction Methods on Bacterial and Fungal Microbiota (2019) (0)
- Response to Commentary About the Role of Socioeconomic Position on the Relation Between Objective H (2011) (0)
- Roberts et al. respond to "Human CMV, inflammation, and mortality". (2010) (0)
- Researchand precision of cancer reporting in a multiwave national panel survey (2010) (0)
- Biodemography, Health, and Mortality (2016) (0)
- Thanks to reviewers of papers submitted 2017-2018 (2019) (0)
- Is Obesity Becoming More Disabling over Time? Evidence from the NHANES 1988–2012 (2016) (0)
- The Long Arm of Adolescent Health Among Men and Women: Does Attained Status Explain Its Association with Mid-Adulthood Health? (2014) (0)
- PhysicalHealthEffectsoftheHousingBoom: Quasi-ExperimentalEvidenceFromtheHealth andRetirementStudy (2013) (0)
- Diverging destinies: ‘social’ data within the TwinsUK cohort (2022) (0)
- Social and population health science approaches to understand the human microbiome (2018) (0)
- Pathogen burden and leukocyte telomere length in the United States (2020) (0)
- Analysis for: The changing relationship between genetic risk and cognitive decline across birth cohorts (2021) (0)
- Older Adults in the United States Have Worse Cardiometabolic Health Compared to England (2022) (0)
- Title: Estimating the burden of COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: A population-level analysis Authors: (2020) (0)
- Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world (2020) (0)
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