Research Interests for Sherman A James

Research Interests: US Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status and Health Care; Poverty and Health

Research: Social determinants of U.S. racial and ethnic health disparities; community-based and public policy interventions to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities

Keywords:
Race/Ethnicity, Health, Poverty, Socioeconomic Inequality
Current projects:
Life course Socioeconomic Position and the Health of African Americans: The Pitt County Study (PI)
Reducing diabetes-related health disparities in African Americans (PI)
The Southern Center on Environmentally-Driven Disparities in Birth Outcomes (Co-Director)
The Health Legacy of Desegregation on Black/White Health Disparities in the South (PI)
Areas of Interest:

Social Determinants of Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
Childhood Poverty and Health in Adulthood
Academic-Community partnerships to reduce racial/ethnic health disparities
Public Policy approaches to reducing health disparities

Representative Publications
  1. Anthopolos R, James SA, Gelfand AE, Miranda ML, A Spatial Measure of Neighborhood Level Racial Isolation Applied to Low Birthweight, Preterm Birth, and Birthweight in North Carolina, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, vol. 2 no. 4 (December, 2011), pp. 235-246
  2. Maty SC, James SA, Kaplan GA, Association between childhood and adult socioeconomic position and the 34-Year incidence (1965-1999) of type 2 diabetes mellitus by racial classification in the Alameda County Study, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 100 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 137-145
  3. James SA, Epidemiologic Research on Health Disparities: Some Thoughts on History and Current Developments, Epidemiologic Reviews, vol. 31 (Winter, 2009), pp. 1-6
  4. Orr ST, Reiter JP, James SA, Orr CA, Maternal Health Prior to Pregnancy and Preterm Birth among Urban, Low Income Black Women in Baltimore: The Baltimore Preterm Birth Study, Ethnicity & Disease, vol. 22 no. 1 (2012), pp. 85-89
  5. James SA, VanHoewyk J., Belli RF, Strogatz DS, Williams DR, Life-course Socioeconomic Position and Risk for Hypertension in African American Men: The Pitt County Study, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 96 no. 5 (May, 2006), pp. 812-817
  6. Stanton MV, Jonassaint CR, Williams RB, James SA, Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Association between John Henryism and NEO-PI-R Personality Domains, Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 72 (Spring, 2010), pp. 141-147