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Overview

Theresa L. Osypuk is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and health professions, with a focus on health, general health professions, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Homelessness and social issues
  • Urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies
  • Intimate partner and family violence
  • Healthcare policy and management
  • Migration, health and trauma
  • Employment and welfare studies

Theresa L. Osypuk has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications with frequent appearances in several academic venues. Their most common publication outlets include:

  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Health & Place
  • Annals of Epidemiology
  • Kidney Medicine

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Life-Course Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Risk of Dementia in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study" (2020) published in American Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Connecting past to present: Examining different approaches to linking historical redlining to present day health inequities" (2022) published in PLoS ONE
  • "The Validity and Reliability of Retrospective Measures of Childhood Socioeconomic Status in the Health and Retirement Study: Evidence From the 1940 U.S. Census" (2022) published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • "Do changes in neighborhood social context mediate the effects of the moving to opportunity experiment on adolescent mental health?" (2020) published in Health & Place
  • "Does the Temporal Pattern of Moving to a Higher-Quality Neighborhood Across a 5-Year Period Predict Psychological Distress Among Adolescents? Results From a Federal Housing Experiment" (2020) published in American Journal of Epidemiology

Collaborations form an important part of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Naomi Harada Thyden
  • Nicole M. Schmidt
  • Susan M. Mason
  • John Robert Warren
  • Richard F. MacLehose

Best Publications

  • Future directions in residential segregation and health research: a multilevel approach.

    Dolores Acevedo-Garcia;Kimberly A. Lochner;Theresa L. Osypuk;S. V. Subramanian

  • Are immigrant enclaves healthy places to live? The Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Theresa L. Osypuk;Ana V. Diez Roux;Craig Hadley;Namratha R. Kandula

  • Toward a policy-relevant analysis of geographic and racial/ethnic disparities in child health.

    Dolores Acevedo-Garcia;Theresa L. Osypuk;Nancy McArdle;David R. Williams

  • Racial residential segregation and geographic heterogeneity in black/white disparity in poor self-rated health in the US: a multilevel statistical analysis.

    S.V. Subramanian;Dolores Acevedo-Garcia;Theresa L. Osypuk

  • The effect of immigrant generation and duration on self-rated health among US adults 2003–2007

    Dolores Acevedo-Garcia;Lisa M. Bates;Theresa L. Osypuk;Nancy McArdle

  • Neighborhood-Level Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Kiarri N. Kershaw;Theresa L. Osypuk;D. Phuong Do;Peter J. De Chavez

  • Practical Guidance for Conducting Mediation Analysis With Multiple Mediators Using Inverse Odds Ratio Weighting

    Quynh C. Nguyen;Theresa L. Osypuk;Nicole M. Schmidt;M. Maria Glymour

  • Are Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth Larger in Hypersegregated Areas

    Theresa L. Osypuk;Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

  • The effect of immigrant generation on smoking

    Dolores Acevedo-Garcia;Jocelyn Pan;Hee Jin Jun;Theresa L. Osypuk

  • Beyond individual neighborhoods: a geography of opportunity perspective for understanding racial/ethnic health disparities.

    Theresa L. Osypuk;Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

  • Does Housing Mobility Policy Improve Health

    Dolores Acevedo‐Garcia;Theresa L. Osypuk;Rebecca E. Werbel;Ellen R. Meara

  • Another Mexican birthweight paradox? The role of residential enclaves and neighborhood poverty in the birthweight of Mexican-origin infants

    Theresa L. Osypuk;Lisa M. Bates;Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

  • The impact of neighborhood quality, perceived stress, and social support on depressive symptoms during pregnancy in African American women.

    Carmen Giurgescu;Dawn P. Misra;Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson;Cleopatra H. Caldwell

  • Does socioeconomic status account for racial and ethnic disparities in childhood cancer survival

    Rebecca D. Kehm;Logan G. Spector;Jenny N. Poynter;David M. Vock

  • The Consistency Assumption for Causal Inference in Social Epidemiology: When a Rose Is Not a Rose

    David H. Rehkopf;M. Maria Glymour;Theresa L. Osypuk

  • Is neighborhood racial/ethnic composition associated with depressive symptoms? The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.

    Christina Mair;Ana V. Diez Roux;Theresa L. Osypuk;Stephen R. Rapp

  • Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis

    Kathryn M. Yount;Alice Ann Crandall;Yuk Fai Cheong;Theresa L. Osypuk

  • Quantifying Separate and Unequal: Racial-Ethnic Distributions of Neighborhood Poverty in Metropolitan America

    Theresa L. Osypuk;Sandro Galea;Nancy McArdle;Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

  • Racism in the form of micro aggressions and the risk of preterm birth among black women

    Jaime C. Slaughter-Acey;Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson;Laura Helmkamp;Cleopatra H. Caldwell

  • Do Social and Economic Policies Influence Health? A Review

    Theresa L. Osypuk;Pamela Joshi;Kimberly Geronimo;Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

  • Individual and neighborhood differences in diet among low-income foreign and U.S.-born women.

    Tamara Dubowitz;S.V. Subramanian;Dolores Acevedo-Garcia;Theresa L. Osypuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia Brandeis University
M. Maria Glymour
M. Maria Glymour Boston University
Ana V. Diez Roux
Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel University
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Sidney Ruth Schuler
Sidney Ruth Schuler Family Health International 360
David H. Rehkopf
David H. Rehkopf Stanford University
Namratha R. Kandula
Namratha R. Kandula Northwestern University
Cleopatra H. Caldwell
Cleopatra H. Caldwell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Beth E. Molnar
Beth E. Molnar Northeastern University
Linda C. Gallo
Linda C. Gallo San Diego State University

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