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Pamela D. Waterman

Pamela D. Waterman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
11161
World Ranking
4059
National Ranking
1934

Overview

Pamela D. Waterman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and medicine, with notable contributions in subfields including sociology and political science, health, molecular biology, oncology, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Food security and health in diverse populations
  • Migration, health and trauma
  • Global cancer incidence and screening
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Birth, development, and health

Waterman has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Nancy Krieger
  • Jarvis T. Chen
  • Christian Testa
  • Sarah Watkins
  • Andrew J. Simpkin

Their publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Public Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • The Lancet
  • Current Zoology

Selected recent papers by Pamela D. Waterman include:

  • Structural Racism, Historical Redlining, and Risk of Preterm Birth in New York City, 2013-2017 (2020), American Journal of Public Health
  • 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
  • COVID-19 and Overall Mortality Inequities in the Surge in Death Rates by Zip Code Characteristics: Massachusetts, January 1 to May 19, 2020 (2020), American Journal of Public Health
  • Decreasing Survey Response Rates in the Time of COVID-19: Implications for Analyses of Population Health and Health Inequities (2023), American Journal of Public Health

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

  • 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

  • Public Health Monitoring of Privilege and Deprivation With the Index of Concentration at the Extremes

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela D. Waterman;Jasmina Spasojevic;Wenhui Li

  • Structural Racism, Historical Redlining, and Risk of Preterm Birth in New York City, 2013–2017

    Nancy Krieger;Gretchen Van Wye;Mary Huynh;Pamela D Waterman

  • 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

  • On the wrong side of the tracts? Evaluating the accuracy of geocoding in public health research.

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela Waterman;Kerry Lemieux;Sally Zierler

  • 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

  • Social Hazards on the Job: Workplace Abuse, Sexual Harassment, and Racial Discrimination—A Study of Black, Latino, and White Low-Income Women and Men Workers in the United States

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela D. Waterman;Cathy Hartman;Lisa M. Bates

  • 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

  • Combining Explicit and Implicit Measures of Racial Discrimination in Health Research

    Nancy Krieger;Dana Carney;Katie Lancaster;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

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Krieger
Nancy Krieger Harvard University
Jarvis T. Chen
Jarvis T. Chen Harvard University
David H. Rehkopf
David H. Rehkopf Stanford University
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Elizabeth M. Barbeau
Elizabeth M. Barbeau Harvard University
Gary G. Bennett
Gary G. Bennett Duke University
Glorian Sorensen
Glorian Sorensen Harvard University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
Sari L. Reisner
Sari L. Reisner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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