| Sherman A. James, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | | Email Address: |   | - Education:
Ph.D. | Washington University in St. Louis | 1973 |
Bachelor of Arts | Talladega College, Talladega, AL | 1964 |
- Specialties:
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Psychology and Social Psychology
Public Health African and African-American Studies Sociology Demography
- Research Interests: Social Determinants of US Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Status and Health Care; Poverty and Global Health Disparities
Social determinants of U.S.racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities
- Areas of Interest:
- Social Determinants of Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
Childhood Poverty and Health in Adulthood Public Policy approaches to reducing health disparities
- Keywords:
- Adaptation, Psychological • Adolescent • Adult • African Americans • African Continental Ancestry Group • Age Factors • Aged • Anxiety • Arab Americans • Baltimore • Birth Certificates • Birth Order • Birth Weight • Blood Pressure • Body Mass Index • Body Weight • Cardiovascular Diseases • Catchment Area (Health) • Child • Cluster Analysis • Cohort Studies • Continental Population Groups • Cross-Sectional Studies • Depression • Depressive Disorder • Discrimination • Educational Status • Emotions • Environment Design • Epidemiologic Studies • European Continental Ancestry Group • Extraversion (Psychology) • Female • Follow-Up Studies • Health Behavior • Health Inequalities • Health Status • Health Status Disparities • Health Status Indicators • Health Surveys • Heart Rate • Hispanic Americans • Humans • Hypertension • Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced • Income • Infant • Infant Mortality • Infant, Low Birth Weight • Infant, Newborn • Linear Models • Logistic Models • Male • Marital Status • Marriage • Maternal Age • Maternal Welfare • Middle Aged • Models, Psychological • Mortality • Mothers • Multivariate Analysis • Neurotic Disorders • North Carolina • Obesity • Odds Ratio • Personality • Personality Inventory • Poverty • Poverty, Inequality and Health • Pregnancy • Pregnancy Complications • Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular • Pregnancy Outcome • Pregnant Women • Prejudice • Premature Birth • Prenatal Care • Primary Health Care • Prognosis • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales • Psychometrics • Public Health • Quality of Life • Questionnaires • Race/Ethnicity • Racial Disparities In Health and Health Care • Racism • Reaction Time • Regression Analysis • Renal Dialysis • Residence Characteristics • Risk Assessment • Risk Factors • Self Concept • Sex Factors • Single Person • Smoking • Social Class • Socioeconomic Factors • Socioeconomic status • Stress, Physiological • Stress, Psychological • United States • Vascular Resistance • Young Adult
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Wei He
- Julius Wilder
- Debbie Barrington
- Edna Viruell-Fuentes
- JoLynn Pratt
- Kyunghee Bae
- Amy Curtis
- Amy Sullivan
- Jay Kaufman
- Alice Furomoto-Dawson
- Ralph Caraballo
- Rosalind Carter
- Dorothy Faulkner
- Antonio Lopes
- Beatrice Zurita
- Julie Gazmararian
- Patricia Dargent-Molina
- David Strogatz
- Janet Meininger
- Suezanne Orr
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- He, W; James, SA; Merli, MG; Zheng, H, An increasing socioeconomic gap in childhood overweight and obesity in China.,
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104 no. 1
(2014),
pp. e14-22 [24228657], [doi] [abs]
- Subramanyam, MA; James, SA; Diez-Roux, AV; Hickson, DA; Sarpong, D; Sims, M; Taylor, HAJ; Wyatt, SB, Socioeconomic status, John Henryism and blood pressure among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study,
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 93
(Fall, 2013),
pp. 139-146, ISSN 0277-9536 [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
- Abdulrahim, S; James, SA; Yamout, R; Baker, W, Discrimination and psychological distress: Does Whiteness matter for Arab Americans?,
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 75 no. 12
(Fall, 2012),
pp. 2116-2123, ISSN 0277-9536 [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
- 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 [22748223], [doi] [abs]
- Stanton, MV; Jonassaint, CR; Williams, RB; Suarez, EC; James, SA, Socioeconomic status moderates the association between John Henryism and NEO PI-R personality domains.,
Psychosom Med, vol. 72 no. 2
(Spring, 2010),
pp. 141-147 [20100884], [doi] [abs]
- James, SA, Epidemiologic research on health disparities: some thoughts on history and current developments.,
Epidemiologic Reviews, vol. 31
(Winter, 2009),
pp. 1-6 [19822533], [doi] [abs]
- James, SA; Van Hoewyk, J; Belli, RF; Strogatz, DS; Williams, DR; Raghunathan, TE, Life-course socioeconomic position and hypertension in African American men: the Pitt County Study.,
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 96 no. 5
(May, 2006),
pp. 812-817, ISSN 0090-0036 [16571689], [doi] [abs]
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