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1223
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569

Overview

Amy J. Schulz is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. The primary fields of their research include Social Sciences and Health Professions, with a particular focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Health, Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics encompass a range of public health and social issues including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health Policy Implementation Science

Frequently publishing in academic venues, Amy J. Schulz has contributed notably to:

  • Health Education & Behavior
  • American Journal of Public Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • UNC Libraries
  • Environmental Justice

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with structural and community health issues. Selected papers include:

  • "Antiracism and Community-Based Participatory Research: Synergies, Challenges, and Opportunities" (2022), American Journal of Public Health
  • "Moving Health Education and Behavior Upstream: Lessons From COVID-19 for Addressing Structural Drivers of Health Inequities" (2020), Health Education & Behavior
  • "Weathering in Detroit: Place, Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty as Conceptually Fluctuating Social Constructs Shaping Variation in Allostatic Load" (2020), Milbank Quarterly
  • "The return of race science and why it matters for family science" (2022), Journal of Family Theory & Review
  • "Historic Redlining Practices and Contemporary Determinants of Health in the Detroit Metropolitan Area" (2023), American Journal of Public Health

Amy J. Schulz has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Barbara A. Israel
  • Ángela Reyes
  • Roshanak Mehdipanah
  • Graciela Mentz
  • Cindy Gamboa

Best Publications

  • Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health.

    Barbara A. Israel;Amy J. Schulz;Edith A. Parker;Adam B. Becker

  • Health Education and Community Empowerment: Conceptualizing and Measuring Perceptions of Individual, Organizational, and Community Control

    Barbara A. Israel;Barry Checkoway;Amy J. Schulz;Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Neighborhood Racial Composition, Neighborhood Poverty, and the Spatial Accessibility of Supermarkets in Metropolitan Detroit

    Shannon N. Zenk;Amy J. Schulz;Barbara A. Israel;Sherman A. James

  • Community-based participatory research: policy recommendations for promoting a partnership approach in health research.

    Barbara A. Israel;Amy J. Schulz;Edith A. Parker;Adam B. Becker

  • Community-based participatory research: a capacity-building approach for policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities.

    Barbara A. Israel;Chris M. Coombe;Rebecca R. Cheezum;Amy J. Schulz

  • Further explorations in empowerment theory: An empirical analysis of psychological empowerment

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Barbara A. Israel;Amy J. Schulz;Barry Checkoway

  • Critical issues in developing and following community based participatory research principles

    BA Israel;AJ Schulz;EA Parker;AB Becker

  • Social Determinants of Health: Implications for Environmental Health Promotion

    Amy Schulz;Mary E. Northridge

  • Discrimination, Symptoms of Depression, and Self-Rated Health Among African American Women in Detroit: Results From a Longitudinal Analysis

    Amy J. Schulz;Clarence C. Gravlee;David R. Williams;Barbara A. Israel

  • Activity space environment and dietary and physical activity behaviors: A pilot study

    Shannon N. Zenk;Amy J. Schulz;Stephen A. Matthews;Angela Odoms-Young

  • Fruit and Vegetable Intake in African Americans : Income and Store Characteristics

    Shannon N. Zenk;Amy J. Schulz;Teretha Hollis-Neely;Richard T. Campbell

  • Advancing the science of community-level interventions.

    Edison J. Trickett;Sarah Beehler;Charles Deutsch;Lawrence W. Green

  • Racial and spatial relations as fundamental determinants of health in Detroit.

    Amy J. Schulz;David R. Williams;Barbara A. Israel;Lora Bex Lempert

  • Unfair treatment, neighborhood effects, and mental health in the Detroit metropolitan area.

    Amy Schulz;David Williams;Barbara Israel;Adam Becker

  • Fruit and vegetable access differs by community racial composition and socioeconomic position in Detroit, Michigan

    Shannon N. Zenk;Amy J. Schulz;Barbara A. Israel;Sherman A. James

  • Neighborhood Retail Food Environment and Fruit and Vegetable Intake in a Multiethnic Urban Population

    Shannon N. Zenk;Laurie L. Lachance;Amy J. Schulz;Graciela Mentz

  • Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area.

    A Schulz;B Israel;D Williams;E Parker

  • Empowerment as a multi-level construct: perceived control at the individual, organizational and community levels

    Amy J. Schulz;Barbara A. Israel;Marc A. Zimmerman;Barry Checkoway

  • Instrument for evaluating dimensions of group dynamics within community-based participatory research partnerships

    Amy J. Schulz;Barbara A. Israel;Paula Lantz

  • Race-Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Stressors, and Telomere Length in a Detroit Community-based Sample:

    Arline T. Geronimus;Jay A. Pearson;Erin Linnenbringer;Amy J. Schulz

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara A. Israel
Barbara A. Israel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Shannon N. Zenk
Shannon N. Zenk University of Illinois at Chicago
Edith A. Parker
Edith A. Parker University of Iowa
Sherman A. James
Sherman A. James Duke University
James S. House
James S. House University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
J. Timothy Dvonch
J. Timothy Dvonch University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ana V. Diez Roux
Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel University
Cleopatra H. Caldwell
Cleopatra H. Caldwell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arline T. Geronimus
Arline T. Geronimus University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marc A. Zimmerman
Marc A. Zimmerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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