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Overview

David H. Rehkopf is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a strong focus on medicine and social sciences, accumulating significant contributions in the fields of health, sociology, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study they have contributed to include:

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

Within these disciplines, Rehkopf's work further branches into several subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Molecular Biology

Their research covers a variety of topics related to public health and social factors affecting wellbeing. Key topics addressed include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

Rehkopf's scholarly output often appears in specific academic venues known for their relevance to health and social sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Journal of Urology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • JAMA Network Open

The list of recent papers demonstrates the range and interdisciplinary nature of their research. Examples include:

  • The role of cortisol in ischemic heart disease, ischemic stroke, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease risk factors: a bi-directional Mendelian randomization study (2020, BMC Medicine)
  • Predicting mortality from 57 economic, behavioral, social, and psychological factors (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Mapping of machine learning approaches for description, prediction, and causal inference in the social and health sciences (2022, Science Advances)
  • Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill (2021, Nature Sustainability)
  • Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences With Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Midlife (2023, JAMA Network Open)

Collaboration plays an important role in their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nicole Gladish
  • Andrés Cárdenas
  • Belinda L. Needham
  • Dennis Khodasevich
  • Robert L. Phillips

Best Publications

  • U.S. disparities in health: descriptions, causes, and mechanisms.

    Nancy E. Adler;David H. Rehkopf

  • Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Monitoring Socioeconomic Gradients in Health: A Comparison of Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures—The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;David H. Rehkopf

  • Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors

    Matthew Pantell;David H. Rehkopf;Douglas Jutte;S. Leonard Syme

  • Painting a truer picture of US socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequalities: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project.

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;David H. Rehkopf

  • The association between suicide and the socio-economic characteristics of geographical areas: a systematic review

    David H. Rehkopf;Stephen L. Buka

  • Educational attainment and obesity: a systematic review

    Alison K. Cohen;Manisha Rai;David H. Rehkopf;Barbara Abrams

  • Socioeconomic status, health behavior, and leukocyte telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002.

    Belinda L. Needham;Nancy Adler;Steven Gregorich;David Rehkopf

  • Effects of Prenatal Poverty on Infant Health: State Earned Income Tax Credits and Birth Weight

    Kate W. Strully;David H. Rehkopf;Ziming Xuan

  • Association of maternal gestational weight gain with short- and long-term maternal and child health outcomes

    Claire E. Margerison Zilko;David Rehkopf;Barbara Abrams

  • The Fall and Rise of US Inequities in Premature Mortality: 1960–2002

    Nancy Krieger;David H Rehkopf;Jarvis T Chen;Pamela D Waterman

  • Comparing Individual- and Area-based Socioeconomic Measures for the Surveillance of Health Disparities: A Multilevel Analysis of Massachusetts Births, 1989–1991

    S. V. Subramanian;J. T. Chen;D. H. Rehkopf;P. D. Waterman

  • Socioeconomic disparities in metabolic syndrome differ by gender: evidence from NHANES III.

    Eric B. Loucks;David H. Rehkopf;Rebecca C. Thurston;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Depression among Latinos in the United States: a meta-analytic review.

    Tamar Menselson;David H. Rehkopf;Laura D. Kubzansky

  • Racial Disparities in Context: A Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhood Variations in Poverty and Excess Mortality Among Black Populations in Massachusetts

    S.V. Subramanian;Jarvis T. Chen;David H. Rehkopf;Pamela D. Waterman

  • Assessing health impact assessment: multidisciplinary and international perspectives

    N. Krieger;Mary Northridge;S. Gruskin;M. Quinn

  • How and why studies disagree about the effects of education on health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of compulsory schooling laws

    Rita Hamad;Holly Elser;Duy C. Tran;David H. Rehkopf

  • Leukocyte telomere length and mortality in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002.

    Belinda L. Needham;David Rehkopf;Nancy Adler;Steven Gregorich

  • Leukocyte Telomere Length in Relation to 17 Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study of US Adults.

    David H. Rehkopf;Belinda L. Needham;Jue Lin;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • Socioeconomic status in relation to early menarche among black and white girls

    Dejana Braithwaite;Dan H. Moore;Robert H. Lustig;Elissa S. Epel

  • Socioeconomic position and the metabolic syndrome in early, middle, and late life: evidence from NHANES 1999-2002.

    Eric B. Loucks;Kristjan T. Magnusson;Stephen Cook;David H. Rehkopf

  • SocialIsolation:APredictorofMortalityComparableto TraditionalClinicalRiskFactors

    Matthew Pantell;David Rehkopf;Douglas Jutte;S. Leonard Syme

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Krieger
Nancy Krieger Harvard University
Elissa S. Epel
Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco
M. Maria Glymour
M. Maria Glymour Boston University
Jarvis T. Chen
Jarvis T. Chen Harvard University
Nancy E. Adler
Nancy E. Adler University of California, San Francisco
Pamela D. Waterman
Pamela D. Waterman Harvard University
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco
Julianna Deardorff
Julianna Deardorff University of California, Berkeley
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University

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