Discipline(s):
Social Epidemiology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Social Determinants of Health in Aging, Cognitive Change in the Elderly, Socioeconomic and Geographic Determinants of Stroke Incidence and Outcomes, Causal Inference in Social Epidemiology
E-Mail:
mglymour@hsph.harvard.edu
Background:
Medellena Glymour’s primary research interest is how social factors experienced across the lifecourse, such as educational attainment and work environment, influence cognitive function, memory loss, and other health outcomes in old age. My doctoral work focused on solutions to methodological problems encountered in analyses of cognitive outcomes. The research drew on instrumental variables methods and other analytic approaches to distinguish causal relations from non-causal correlations. I have also recently begun work on determinants of stroke and stroke recovery, including an examination of the relations between pre- and post-stroke cognitive function and functional recovery after stroke. Related projects focus on understanding how selective survival biases coefficient estimates for social exposures among the oldest old and examining whether public policies that affected early or mid-life social conditions of elderly cohorts can help explain the geographic patterning of stroke mortality. I received my SD from the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Medellena Glymour’s available publications in PubMed.
