Many of our GREMAP members presented at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2014 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Doctoral student Monique Brown presented posters titled “Adverse childhood experiences and age at sexual debut among sexual minorities,” “Adverse childhood experiences and intimate partner violence perpetration: A mediational analysis,” and “Adverse childhood experiences and HIV/STIs: A Mediational Analysis.” 

Doctoral student Lena Jaggi gave a talk titled “Trauma, PTSD and incarceration history in a nationally representative sample of African Americans.” 

Dr. Jeannie Concha and Julia Foutz presented a poster titled “Stress and coping among African Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus.” 

Dr. Concha presenting at APHA.

Dr. Steve Cohen gave talks titled “Emerging caregiver burden domains in the new National Study of Caregiving: Results, reliability, and applications” and “Associations between caregiving intensity and caregiver burden in ‘sandwiched’ caregivers: Results from the new National Study of Caregiving.” Dr. Cohen also presented a poster titled “Measurement matters in rural-urban health disparities: Regional variation in obesity-rurality associations in older adults based on choice of rurality scale.” 

GREMAP members and alumni presented at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2014 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. 

Dr. Briana Mezuk presented talks titled “Hearts and minds, stress and sugar: Disparities and differences in mental and physical health” and “Racial differences in self-regulatory stress coping behaviors in older adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).” 

Dr. Mezuk with fellow panel members at GSA. 

Dr. Jeannie Concha gave a talk titled “Ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, and diabetes in aging Latinos: Evidence of ethnic identity as an underlying mechanism of the Latino health advantage.” 

Dr. Concha speaking at GSA.

Dr. Steve Cohen gave a talk titled “Protecting the health of ‘sandwiched’ caregivers: Associations between caregiving intensity and four domains of caregiver burden among sandwich generation caregivers from the new National Study of Caregivers.” 

Doctoral student Monique Brown presented a poster titled “Psychopathology and HIV diagnosis among older adults in the US.” Monique was awarded the Emerging Scholar and Professional Organization Poster Award.

Dr. Cohen supporting Monique after receiving the Emerging Scholar and Professional Organization Poster Award at GSA. 

GREMAP alumnus Kristen Rice, Research Consultant, Lewin Group, presented a poster titled “Long-term care and offspring mental health: Evidence for the Health and Retirement Study.” 

GREMAP alumnus Dr. Moon Choi, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, College of Social Work, presented two posters titled “The relationship between self-rated memory and driving behaviors among community-living older adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study,” and “News and portrayal of older drivers.” 

In early October Dr. Mezuk visited Tilberg University in Tilberg, Netherlands where she gave a talk entitled “Integrating social psychology and biology to examine the sources of social disparities in diabetes risk” at the Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic diseases (CoRPS). While there she met with Dr. Frans Pouwer, an international expert on the role of psychosocial factors in diabetes risk. She also traveled to Malmo, Sweden to meet with Drs. Jan and Kristina Sundquist at the Centre for Primary Care Research at Lund University to continue work on their project on the contribution of neighborhood factors to depression and diabetes risk.

Dr. Steve Cohen has been featured in an APHA podcast regarding immunizations in the aging population. The podcast is available at getreadyforflu.org. 

 

 

 

GREMAP doctoral student Natalie Bareis has helped author a paper published in Molecular Psychiatry. The paper, “Depression, anxiety and telomere length in young adults: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey” is available on the Nature website.

 

 

In the spirit of “The Dude,” GREMAP goes bowling to kick off the Fall 2014 semester!

Dr. Jeannie Concha and Dr. Briana Mezuk presented their posters on stress, mental health, and diabetes risk at the American Diabetes Association meeting in San Francisco, CA. More information about the conference is available here.

Dr. Jeannie Concha and Dr. Briana Mezuk each gave oral presentation at the 2014 International Conference on Social Stress Research in Vancouver, British Columbia. While there Dr. Mezuk also met up with Dr. Belinda Needham, an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and former RWJ Health & Society Scholar. Along with GREMAP member Natalie Bareis, they have a forthcoming paper on depression and telomere shortening in Molecular Psychiatry. More information on the ICSSR conference is available here.