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Jarvis T. Chen is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as General Health Professions, Health, Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, and Oncology.

The main topics of Jarvis T. Chen's work include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

They have coauthored extensively with other researchers, most frequently collaborating with Nancy Krieger, Christian Testa, Pamela D. Waterman, Brent A. Coull, and Sari L. Reisner.

Jarvis T. Chen has published in several venues multiple times. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • SLEEP
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Revealing the Unequal Burden of COVID-19 by Income, Race/Ethnicity, and Household Crowding: US County Versus Zip Code Analyses," 2020, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
  • "Variation in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: A cross-sectional study," 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • "Correction: Variation in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: A cross-sectional study," 2021, PLoS Medicine
  • "Cancer Stage at Diagnosis, Historical Redlining, and Current Neighborhood Characteristics: Breast, Cervical, Lung, and Colorectal Cancers, Massachusetts, 2001-2015," 2020, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Excess mortality in men and women in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, The Lancet

Best Publications

  • Geocoding and Monitoring of US Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality and Cancer Incidence: Does the Choice of Area-based Measure and Geographic Level Matter? The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;Mah-Jabeen Soobader

  • 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

  • Choosing area based socioeconomic measures to monitor social inequalities in low birth weight and childhood lead poisoning: The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project (US)

    Krieger N;Chen Jt;Waterman Pd;Soobader Mj

  • 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

  • Revealing the Unequal Burden of COVID-19 by Income, Race/Ethnicity, and Household Crowding: US County Versus Zip Code Analyses

    Jarvis T. Chen;Nancy Krieger

  • Zip Code Caveat: Bias Due to Spatiotemporal Mismatches Between Zip Codes and US Census–Defined Geographic Areas—The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen;Mah-Jabeen Soobader

  • Monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, and violence: geocoding and choice of area-based socioeconomic measures--the public health disparities geocoding project (US)

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela D. Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen;Mah-Jabeen Soobader

  • 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

  • Racial Discrimination, Psychological Distress, and Self-Rated Health Among US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Americans

    Nancy Krieger;Anna A. Kosheleva;Pamela D. Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen

  • 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

  • Correction: Variation in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: A cross-sectional study

    Mary T. Bassett;Jarvis T. Chen;Nancy Krieger

  • Survival Disparities in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous New Zealanders with Colon Cancer: The Role of Patient Comorbidity, Treatment and Health Service Factors

    Sarah Hill;Diana Sarfati;Tony Blakely;Bridget Robson

  • Cancer Stage at Diagnosis, Historical Redlining, and Current Neighborhood Characteristics: Breast, Cervical, Lung, and Colorectal Cancers, Massachusetts, 2001-2015.

    Nancy Krieger;Emily Wright;Jarvis T Chen;Pamela D Waterman

  • The inverse hazard law: blood pressure, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, workplace abuse and occupational exposures in US low-income black, white and Latino workers.

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;Cathy Hartman

  • Local residential segregation matters: stronger association of census tract compared to conventional city-level measures with fatal and non-fatal assaults (total and firearm related), using the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) for Racial, Economic, and Racialized Economic Segregation, Massachusetts (US), 1995-2010

    Nancy Krieger;Justin M. Feldman;Pamela D. Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen

  • The Unique Impact of Abolition of Jim Crow Laws on Reducing Inequities in Infant Death Rates and Implications for Choice of Comparison Groups in Analyzing Societal Determinants of Health

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Brent A. Coull;Pamela D. Waterman

  • Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;Mathew V. Kiang

  • Integrating Multiple Social Statuses in Health Disparities Research: The Case of Lung Cancer

    David R. Williams;Emily Z. Kontos;K. Viswanath;Jennifer S. Haas

  • Exposing racial discrimination: implicit & explicit measures--the My Body, My Story study of 1005 US-born black & white community health center members.

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela D. Waterman;Anna Kosheleva;Jarvis T. Chen

  • Mapping and Measuring Social Disparities in Premature Mortality: The Impact of Census Tract Poverty within and Across Boston Neighborhoods, 1999–2001

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Krieger
Nancy Krieger Harvard University
Pamela D. Waterman
Pamela D. Waterman Harvard University
David H. Rehkopf
David H. Rehkopf Stanford University
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
M. Maria Glymour
M. Maria Glymour Boston University
Susan Redline
Susan Redline Brigham and Women's Hospital
William P. Hanage
William P. Hanage Harvard University
Marc A. Suchard
Marc A. Suchard University of California, Los Angeles
Xihong Lin
Xihong Lin Harvard University
Jaime E. Hart
Jaime E. Hart Harvard University

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