Discipline(s):
Gerontology, Epidemiology, Demography
Area(s) of Expertise:
Obesity, Disability, Socioeconomic Health Disparities, Biomarkers, Inflammation
E-Mail:
dalley@epi.umaryland.edu
Background:
Dawn Alley completed her Ph.D. in gerontology at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology. She then became Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is interested in socioeconomic disparities in late life, with a focus on the stress process and on identifying policy-relevant mechanisms through which socioeconomic disadvantage is related to disability. Her second research focus is on the unique health effects of obesity and body composition in late life, especially the role of weight change at older ages.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Dawn Alley's available publications in PubMed.
