Dr. Twardzik’s research focuses on understanding how social and environmental factors, including transportation and neighborhood environment, influence mobility, disability, and health behaviors among older adults.
Dr. Twardzik’s research focuses on understanding how social and environmental factors, including transportation and neighborhood environment, influence mobility, disability, and health behaviors among older adults.
Dr. Westrick is a social epidemiologist specializing in cancer epidemiology, health inequalities research and cognitive and functional outcomes in older adults.
Dr. Flaster’s research examines higher education’s role in stratification of life course outcomes.
Dr. Byrd’s research examines the mechanisms of racism within higher education and in broader society. His current research includes study of the contributions of college education to later-life health and social outcomes.
Dr. Briceno’s research focuses on cognitive health disparities and cognitive measurement across culturally and linguistically diverse older adult populations.
Dr. Lei’s research focuses on dementia care, health care delivery, long-term care, labor migration, left-behind children, smoking and geriatric oncology.
Dr. Hicken studies the social causes and biological mechanisms linking racial group membership to renal and cardiovascular disease inequalities. Her research examines the interrelated roles of racial residential segregation, neighborhood disadvantage, environmental hazards, and racial health inequalities in adult populations, including older adults.
Dr. Taylor’s research examines informal social support networks of Black Americans including in later life. He also studies religious participation among African Americans across the life course. He is Co-Director of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research.
Dr. Sheria G. Robinson-Lane is a gerontologist with expertise in palliative care, long-term care, and nursing administration. Her work aims to reduce health disparities and improve health equity for diverse older adults and family caregivers managing pain and chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Dr. Duchowny’s research seeks to bridge the social, environmental, and biological determinants of musculoskeletal health and physical functioning in older adults. She is most interested in identifying which aspects of the built and social environment matter most in helping older adults maintain independence and understanding life course sociobiologic mechanisms (e.g., viral infections, mitochondrial function) that drive disparate outcomes in physical disability especially related to neighborhoods.