Chloe E. Bird
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Education
Overview
Biography
Chloe E. Bird is a senior sociologist at the RAND Corporation, where she studies gender differences in physical and mental health and social determinants of health, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She is principal investigator of a study of the impact of neighborhoods and behaviors on allostatic load and morbidity and of a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of neighborhood effects on incident cardiovascular disease among women based on data from the Women's Health Initiative. In her book Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choice and Social Policies (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Bird and coauthor Patricia P. Rieker highlight promising new approaches to integrating biological and social research and provide examples of innovative developments that transcend the long-standing discipline-focused division of labor in the research community. Bird received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Women, Neighborhoods, and Coronary Heart Disease: A Perspective Study. The objective of the project is to examine the impact of neighborhood factors on women's development of CHD.
- Neighborhoods, Behaviors, Allostatic Load, and Health. The study explores how neighborhood context affects and interacts with individual behavior and biology to determine health and disease.
- Mapping Gender Disparities in Cardiovascular Care in California. The study examines and maps gender differences in cardiovascular disease and diabetes care.
Selected Publications
Beth Ann Griffin, Christine Eibner, Chloe E. Bird, Adria Jewell, Karen Margolis, Regina Shih, Mary Ellen Slaughter, Eric A. Whitsel, Matthew Allison. José J. Escarce., "The Relationship between Urban Sprawl and Coronary Heart Disease in Women," Health & Place, 20:51-61, 2013
Yunsheng Ma, James R. Hébert, JoAnn E. Manson, Raji Balasubramanian, Simin Liu, Michael Lamonte, Chloe E. Bird, Judith K. Ockene, Yongxia Qiao, Barbara Olendzki, Kristin L. Schneider, Milagros C. Rosal, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Marcia Stefanick, Lawrence S., "Determinants of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Incidence of Diabetes in Postmenopausal Women in the United States: The Women's Health Initiative 1993-2009.," Diabetes Care, 35(11):2226-2234, 2012
Craig E. Pollack, Mary Ellen Slaughter, Beth Ann Griffin, Tamara Dubowitz and Chloe E. Bird., "Neighborhood socioeconomic status and coronary heart disease risk prediction in a nationally representative sample.," Public Health, 126(10):827-35, 2012
Tamara Dubowitz, Madhumita Ghosh-Dastidar, Christine Eibner, Mary E. Slaughter, Meenakshi Fernandes, Eric A. Whitsel, Chloe E. Bird, Adria Jewell, Karen L. Margolis, Wenjun Li, Yvonne L. Michael, Regina A. Shih, JoAnn E. Manson and José J. Escarce, "The Women's Health Initiative: The Food Environment, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, BMI, and Blood Pressure," Obesity, 20(4):862-71, 2012
RA Shih, B Ghosh-Dastidar, KL Margolis, ME Slaughter, A Jewell, CE Bird, C Eibner, NL Denburg, J Ockene, CR Messina, MA Espeland, "Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function in Women," American Journal of Public Health, 101(9):1721-8, 2011
Regina A. Shih, Beth Ann Griffin; Nicholas Salkowski, Adria Jewell, Christine Eibner, Chloe E. Bird, Duanping Liao, Mary Cushman, Helene G. Margolis, Charles B. Eaton, Eric A. Whitsel, "Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Venous Thromboembolism in the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy Trials," Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(3):326, 2010
Brian Karl Finch, D. Phuong Do, Melonie Heron, Chloe E. Bird, Teresa Seeman, Nicole Lurie, "Neighborhood Effects on Health: Concentrated Advantage And Disadvantage," Health and Place, 16(5):1058-60, 2010
Chloe E. Bird, Teresa Seeman, José J. Escarce, Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Brian Finch, Tamara Dubowitz, Melonie Heron, Lauren Hale, Sharon Stein Merkin, Margaret Weden, Nicole Lurie, "Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status and Biological 'Wear & Tear' in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults," Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(860-5):In Press, 2010
Honors & Awards
- 2006 & 2009 Outstanding Abstract, AcademyHealth
- 2006 Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship at the Bellagio Center in Italy, Rockefeller Foundation
- 1995 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: U.S. News & World Report
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