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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Alberto Palloni is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans the intersecting fields of social sciences and medicine, with a particular focus on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. The scientist's work addresses a range of topics including health disparities and outcomes, birth and development health, global health care issues, and maternal and child health globally.

Their recent publications reflect this multidisciplinary focus. Notable papers include:

  • The Consequences of Incarceration for Mortality in the United States, 2020, published in Demography
  • Where and When: Sharpening the lens on geographic disparities in mortality, 2020, in SSM - Population Health
  • How Diet and Lifestyle Can Fine-Tune Gut Microbiomes for Healthy Aging, 2024, featured in Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
  • Modeling biological age and its link with the aging process, 2022, in PNAS Nexus
  • Understanding Geographic Disparities in Mortality, 2023, published in Demography

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Palloni include Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Yiyue Huangfu, Mary McEniry, Sebastian Daza, and Clara Bueno López. These collaborations have supported research efforts largely published in venues such as Population Studies, Demography, and PNAS Nexus.

The primary publication venues where Alberto Palloni's work appears are:

  • Population Studies
  • Demography
  • PNAS Nexus
  • Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
  • SSM - Population Health

Their research contributions center on these main topics:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Among professional recognitions, Alberto Palloni has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1987.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Paradox Lost: Explaining the Hispanic Adult Mortality Advantage

    Alberto Palloni;Elizabeth Arias

  • Social capital and international migration: a test using information on family networks.

    Alberto Palloni;Douglas S. Massey;Miguel Ceballos;Kristin Espinosa

  • Interpreting the paradoxical in the hispanic paradox: Demographic and epidemiologic approaches

    Alberto Palloni;Jeffrey D. Morenoff

  • Sociological Criminology and the Mythology of Hispanic Immigration and Crime

    John L Hagan;Alberto Palloni

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Reproducing inequalities: Luck, wallets, and the enduring effects of childhood health

    Alberto Palloni

  • Cohort Profile: The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)

    Rebeca Wong;Alejandra Michaels-Obregon;Alberto Palloni

  • Encuesta Salud, Bienestar y Envejecimiento (SABE): metodología de la encuesta y perfil de la población estudiada

    Cecilia Albala;Maria Lúcia Lebrão;Esther María León Díaz;Roberto Ham-Chande

  • Migration Selection, Protection, and Acculturation in Health: A Binational Perspective on Older Adults

    Fernando Riosmena;Rebeca Wong;Alberto Palloni

  • Childhood Socioeconomic Position and Objectively Measured Physical Capability Levels in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Kate Birnie;Rachel Cooper;Richard M. Martin;Diana Kuh

  • Older Adults Under a Mixed Regime of Infectious and Chronic Diseases

    Rafael Samper-Ternent;Alejandra Michaels-Obregon;Rebeca Wong;Alberto Palloni

  • Demographic and health conditions of ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Alberto Palloni;Guido Pinto-Aguirre;Martha Pelaez

  • Persistent marriage regimes in changing times.

    Elizabeth Fussell;Alberto Palloni

  • Close social relationships correlate with human gut microbiota composition.

    Kimberly A. Dill-McFarland;Zheng-Zheng Tang;Julia H. Kemis;Robert L. Kerby

  • Early childhood health, reproduction of economic inequalities and the persistence of health and mortality differentials

    Alberto Palloni;Carolina Milesi;Robert G. White;Alyn Turner

  • The Social Reproduction of a Criminal Class in Working-Class London, Circa 1950-1980

    John Hagan;Alberto Palloni

  • Population and Deforestation in Costa Rica

    Luis Rosero-Bixby;Alberto Palloni

  • "Effects of Inter-Birth Intervals and Breastfeeding on Infant and Early Childhood Mortality"

    Alberto Palloni;Sara Millman

Frequent Co-Authors

Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng Peking University
Teresa Norat
Teresa Norat Imperial College London
Constance Schultsz
Constance Schultsz University of Amsterdam

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