So incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to join the MFP network alongside these scholars! 🎉🎉🎉

@brownerika & I challenge financial literacy’s claim of universality. Our paper also aims to advance a contextualized definition of financial literacy that recognizes the institutional and structural barriers that constrain financial decision making for racialized minority groups

We find that financial literacy wasnt universally protective. It was associated with reduced healthcare disengagement (ie health precarity) for white adults but was unrelated to Black adults health precarity. For Hispanic adults, it was associated with increased health precarity

So happy this work is finally published! We challenge the idea that financial competency is beneficial for all racial and ethnic groups. In this paper we look at healthcare disengagement due to cost concerns (eg not filling prescriptions due to cost concerns

I feel so lucky to have been selected alongside both of these amazing scholars!!

Exciting things happening over here at UIowa 👏🏼

Congrats to the ASC 2024 Award Recipients. Check out their photos and bios on our website https://t.co/nqI5qlW1ng(Page is updated as they are submitted)

In newly published research in Injury Epidemiology, Mark Berg, professor and director of the PPC, @ethanrogers_IA, interim research and operations manager of the PPC, and Hannah Rochford, assistant professor at @TAMU and @UIowaCPH alum, analyze four decades of data on pediatric

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! 🚨 Our paper published in @JECH_BMJ examined how collateral consequences of incarceration has negative consequences on African American women’s cardiovascular health @ZacMartinPhD @ChristyLErving @tenelewis2

Montreal!!! You were a dream✨ It was amazing to be in such close proximity with so many of my research idols, mentors, and getting to meet my internet soc friends IRL #ASA2024 #ABS2024 @BlkSchlr_BMiles @KierraNToney @demae_mae @leshhenderson @brownerika @A_Thrill and others!

If you can’t access the paper but would like to read it, please message or email me! #phdchat #AcademicTwitter #SocTwitter #CrimTwitter

Altogether, this project adds to the mountain of work that finds incarceration continues to harm people long after the fact. And more, older Black adults who were at a heightened risk of inc as young adults during the prison boom continue to bear this burden decades later

They also experienced elevated depression symptoms even after accounting for confounds and pre-incarceration experiences.

What’s more… they were aging 1 week faster at a cellular level each year as well.

We find enduring associations between incarceration and both indicators of epigenetic aging as well as depression. The formerly incarcerated Black adults were estimated to be 1.5 years older biologically than their never incarcerated peers.

We also used inverse treatment probability weights to account for a range of pre-incarceration experiences related to health and likelihood of incarceration exposure (e.g. arrest, ACEs, neighborhood disadvantage, poverty, etc.)

To combat these concerns, we use 2 epigenetic clocks to assess if an individual’s aging is accelerated compared to their calendar age and if they are aging at a similar pace per yr as their never incarcerated peers. We consider how incarceration contributes to depressive symptoms

A lot of work on the connection between incarceration & poor health has focused on younger samples, doesn’t consider how pre-incarceration experiences may shape health (e.g. arrest), or solely relies on health outcomes that require doc diagnosis or people already feeling unwell

https://t.co/n6lRWM14Q1

🚨🔊 new pub alert in the Journal of Aging and Health My coauthors and I examined how incarceration influences biological aging and depressive symptoms of older Black adults. We find that incarceration exposure continues undermine health well into the life course #SocAF