Discipline(s):
Sociology, Demography
Area(s) of Expertise:
Disparities, Social Stratification, Poverty, Marriage, Transition to Adulthood, Race/Ethnicity, Adolescence, Obesity, Social Demography
E-Mail:
hedylee@umich.edu
Background:
Hedy Lee received her PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. Hedy was also awarded an Interdisciplinary Certificate in Health Disparities from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health and School of Medicine Program on Ethnicity, Culture and Health Outcomes. Her dissertation investigated the relationship between social disadvantage and obesity and physical activity outcomes using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Using a dynamic longitudinal model, she examined the impact of social disadvantage in adolescence on patterns of obesity and physical activity across the transition to young adulthood, a period when adult lifestyle behaviors are solidified and major racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities become apparent. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michigan, Hedy plans to investigate how built environments differ by neighborhood socioeconomic status, and how particular aspects of the built environment differentially affect the physical activity and food choices of males and females and different racial/ethnic groups. She also plans to explore how obesity in adolescence influences important lifecourse outcomes in adulthood, such as marriage, educational, employment and fertility.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Hedwig Lee's available publications in PubMed.
