Discipline(s):
Social Epidemiology, Epidemiology, Public Health

Area(s) of Expertise:
Racial Health Disparities, Racial Residential Segregation & Health, Place, Neighborhoods, and Health, Socioeconomic Disparities

E-Mail:
tosypuk@neu.edu

Background:
Theresa L. Osypuk is a social epidemiologist researching the geographic patterns and causes of racial health disparities across the United States. She is particularly interested in the effect of neighborhood and metropolitan level opportunity structures for socioeconomic advancement and wealth accumulation, which place different racial groups on different health trajectories across the life course, and well as the health effects of different forms and levels of discrimination and racism. Her work examines how social policies may mitigate racial inequality, particularly related to home ownership, home mortgage financing, and housing mobility. Theresa has coauthored publications for the American Journal of Public Health, Housing Policy Debate, and Social Science and Medicine, exploring how racial residential segregation and housing mobility policy influence health. Theresa received her doctorate from Harvard University in 2005, in the School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health. She received her Masters of Science at Harvard in 2002. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked with The Advertising Council, developing national social marketing campaigns to raise public awareness via mass media for such issues as housing discrimination, violence prevention, and youth fitness.

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