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Sociologists Montez and Monnat earn NIH grants

Maxwell School sociology faculty members lead research teams that were recently awarded R24 grants from the National Institute on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health. Jennifer Karas Montez, professor of sociology, is a co-principal investigator, and Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, is a co-investigator on the first of these highly competitive five-year grants.
October 11, 2019

See related: Grant Awards, Longevity, U.S. Health Policy

Monnat article on socioeconomic and opioid supply factors to drug mortality rates published in JRS

Shannon M. Monnat
April 30, 2019

See related: Addiction, Longevity

Monnat quoted in PolitiFact article on Andrew Yang, life expectancy

According to Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, the recent decline in life expectancy "is due almost entirely" to increases in overdoses and suicides. "Although the declines are small, they are unprecedented, and they are signals that there is a serious well-being crisis in the U.S."

April 4, 2019

See related: Addiction, Longevity, Mental Health, United States

Karas Montez study on educational disparities, mortality published

Jennifer Karas Montez, Anna Zajacova, Mark D. Hayward, Steven H. Woolf, Derek Chapman & Jason Beckfield
January 11, 2019

See related: Education, Longevity

Monnat paper on opioid-related mortality in rural America published in Int Journal of Drug Policy

Khary K. Rigga, Shannon M. Monnat & Melody N. Chavez
June 30, 2018

See related: Addiction, Health Policy, Longevity, United States

Karas Montez study on education–mortality association published in Biodemography and Social Biology

Jennifer Karas Montez & Isaac Sasson
May 10, 2018

See related: Education, Longevity, United States

Monnat study on factors associated with differences in drug-related mortality published in AJPM

Shannon M. Monnat
March 25, 2018

See related: Addiction, Longevity

Monnat article on teaching to the opioid epidemic published in Medical Teacher

Daniel R. George, Shannon M. Monnat, Rachel Levine, Barbara Blatt & Jed D. Gonzalo
May 31, 2017

See related: Addiction, Education, Health Policy, Longevity, United States

Schwartz paper on neighborhoods schools and obesity published in PLOS ONE

Brian Elbel, Sean P. Corcoran, Amy Ellen Schwartz
June 15, 2016

See related: Health Policy, Longevity

Singleton study on earnings of the Social Security Disability Insurance program published in EL

Perry Singleton
July 31, 2012

See related: Education, Insurance, Longevity

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