Discipline(s):
Public Health

Area(s) of Expertise:
Adolescence, HIV/AIDS, Sexual Behavior, Sub-Saharan Africa, Demography, Quantitative Methods

E-Mail:
bartbing@pop.psu.edu

Background:
Jeffrey Bingenheimer is a social epidemiologist whose interests include mathematical representations of the spread of infectious diseases through human populations as well as microeconomic and behavioral ecological approaches to understanding human social behavior. He holds an MPH from the University of Michigan, and is in the process of completing his doctoral dissertation. The latter deals with the growing disparity between black and white Americans in rates of HIV infection, AIDS, and AIDS-related mortality, and argues that background rates of mortality from competing risks may condition individual and collective responses to the spread of disease, thereby perpetuating and exacerbating inequalities. He has worked extensively with data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. As a Health & Society Scholar he plans to continue his empirical research on heterogeneity in the spread of HIV, and to work on the development and analysis of formal theoretical model that places health inequality within the broader context of a dynamic, intergenerational process of social stratification.

Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Jeffrey Bingenheimer's available publications in PubMed.