Margaret M. Weden
Overview
Biography
Margaret Weden is a demographer, public health researcher, and statistician who studies population dynamics--specifically health, health behaviors, mortality and social disparities. Her current work addresses intergenerational determinants of youth smoking trajectories, statistical and computational methods for studying multilevel and life course determinants of childhood obesity, and sociodemographic determinates of return to work after injury. She has past and ongoing work on the application of GIS-technology to public health systems and services research. Weden received her Ph.D in population dynamics and M.H.S. in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Combined-survey Estimation & Markov-chain Simulation of Childhood Obesity
- Intergenerational Determinants of Youth Smoking Trajectories
- Mapping the Gaps: Enhancing Local Health Department Priority Setting and Decision-Making for Program Planning
- Estimating Differentials in Return to Work after Injury from Two Surveys
- Polisim Microsimulation Model of the U.S. Population
Selected Publications
Weden, M.M., R.A. Brown, "Historical and life course timing of the male mortality disadvantage in Europe: Epidemiologic transitions, evolution, and behavior," Social Biology, 53(1-2):61-79, 2008
Weden, M.M., R.M. Carpiano, S.A Robert, "Perceived Neighborhood Quality, Census Tract Socioeconomic Characteristics, and Adult Health," Social Science & Medicine, 66(6):1256-1270, 2008
Weden, M.M., R. Kimbro, "Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Timing of First Marriage and Smoking Cessation," Journal of Marriage and the Famil, 69(3):878-887, 2007
Weden, M.M., N.M. Astone, D. Bishai, "Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Health-related Behavior Associated with Employment and Joblessness through Young Adulthood in the U.S.," Social Science & Medicine, 62(2):303-316, 2006
Weden, M.M., L.S. Zabin, "Gender and Ethnic Differences in the Co-occurrence of Adolescent Risk Behaviors," Ethnicity & Health, 10(3):221-241, 2005
Bird, C.E., T. Seeman, J.J. Escarce, R. Basurto-Davila, B.K. Finch, T. Dubowitz, M. Heron, L. Hale, S.S. Merkin, M.M. Weden, N. Lurie, "Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Biological Wear & Tear in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adults," Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (forthcoming)
Rendall, M.S., M.M. Weden, M.M. Favreault, H. Waldron, "The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update," Demography (forthcoming)
