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Overview

Jeffrey D. Morenoff is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Health, Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, and General Health Professions.

The main topics of Morenoff's work cover a variety of social and health-related issues, such as:

  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Their recent papers illustrate a blend of epidemiological and social justice concerns. Notable publications include:

  • Rates and causes of death after release from incarceration among 1,471,526 people in eight high-income and middle-income countries: an individual participant data meta-analysis (2024, The Lancet)
  • The association of criminal justice supervision setting with overdose mortality: a longitudinal cohort study (2020, Addiction)
  • Effect of vaccine effectiveness and safety on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Detroit, Michigan, July 2020 (2021, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics)
  • Mediators of Racial Differences in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake: A Cohort Study in Detroit, MI (2021, Vaccines)
  • The Mortality After Release from Incarceration Consortium (MARIC): Protocol for a multi-national, individual participant data meta-analysis (2020, International Journal for Population Data Science)

Morenoff frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their notable coauthors include:

  • David J. Harding
  • Ingrid A. Binswanger
  • Shawn D. Bushway
  • Rohan Borschmann
  • Stuart A. Kinner

Their work appears predominantly in journals concerned with health disparities, epidemiology, and social conditions. Frequent publication venues reflect this focus and include:

  • Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Lancet
  • Addiction
  • Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

Best Publications

  • ASSESSING "NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS": Social Processes and New Directions in Research

    Robert J. Sampson;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Thomas Gannon-Rowley

  • Beyond Social Capital: Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children

    Robert J. Sampson;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Felton Earls

  • Neighborhood inequality, collective efficacy, and the spatial dynamics of urban violence

    Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Robert J. Sampson;Stephen W. Raudenbush

  • Social anatomy of racial and ethnic disparities in violence.

    Robert J. Sampson;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Stephen W. Raudenbush

  • Assessing the measurement properties of neighborhood scales: from psychometrics to ecometrics

    Mahasin S. Mujahid;Ana V. Diez Roux;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Trivellore Raghunathan

  • Violent Crime and The Spatial Dynamics of Neighborhood Transition: Chicago, 1970–1990

    Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Robert J. Sampson

  • Neighborhood mechanisms and the spatial dynamics of birth weight.

    Jeffrey D. Morenoff

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

    Alberto Palloni;Jeffrey D. Morenoff

  • Understanding Social Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control: The Role of Neighborhood Context

    Jeffrey David Morenoff;James S House;Ben B Hansen;David R Williams

  • Incarceration, prisoner reentry, and communities

    Jeffrey D. Morenoff;David J. Harding

  • Neighborhood characteristics and hypertension.

    Mahasin S. Mujahid;Ana V. Diez Roux;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Trivellore E. Raghunathan

  • Mobility Disability and the Urban Built Environment

    Philippa Clarke;Jennifer A. Ailshire;Michael Bader;Jeffrey D. Morenoff

  • Using Google Earth to Conduct a Neighborhood Audit: Reliability of a Virtual Audit Instrument

    Philippa Clarke;Jennifer Ailshire;Robert Melendez;Michael Bader

  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence: Reconsidering the Role of Chronic Stress

    Margaret T. Hicken;Hedwig Lee;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;James S. House

  • Making Ends Meet After Prison

    David J. Harding;Jessica J.B. Wyse;Cheyney Dobson;Jeffrey D. Morenoff

  • Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Residential Proximity to Polluting Industrial Facilities: Evidence From the Americans' Changing Lives Study

    Paul Mohai;Paula M. Lantz;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;James S. House

  • Socioeconomic and behavioral risk factors for mortality in a national 19-year prospective study of U.S. adults.

    Paula M. Lantz;Ezra Golberstein;James S. House;Jeffrey D. Morenoff

  • Building Community: The Neighborhood Context of Social Organization

    Sapna Swaroop;Jeffrey D. Morenoff

  • Neighborhood stressors and social support as predictors of depressive symptoms in the Chicago Community Adult Health Study

    Christina Mair;Ana V. Diez Roux;Jeffrey D. Morenoff

  • Home Is Hard to Find Neighborhoods, Institutions, and the Residential Trajectories of Returning Prisoners

    David J. Harding;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Claire W. Herbert

Frequent Co-Authors

James S. House
James S. House University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ingrid A. Binswanger
Ingrid A. Binswanger Kaiser Permanente
Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson Harvard University
Shawn D. Bushway
Shawn D. Bushway University at Albany, State University of New York
Gilbert C. Gee
Gilbert C. Gee University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen W. Raudenbush
Stephen W. Raudenbush University of Chicago
Jennifer A. Ailshire
Jennifer A. Ailshire University of Southern California
Ana V. Diez Roux
Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel University
Philippa Clarke
Philippa Clarke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mahasin S. Mujahid
Mahasin S. Mujahid University of California, Berkeley

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