Associate Professor
About
Dr. Catherine Cubbin is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and a Faculty Research Associate at the Population Research Center, at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Cubbin received her PhD in Health and Social Policy from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1998. She was trained as a CDC fellow at the National Center for Health Statistics and completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in 2000.
Dr. Cubbin's research focuses on using epidemiological methods to better understand socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequalities in health for the purpose of informing policy. Specific areas of her research include using contextual analysis to investigate how neighborhood environments may explain social inequalities in health, and the measurement of socioeconomic status/position in studies of racial/ethnic disparities in health. Using national and statewide representative data sets, she has studied social inequalities in injuries, cardiovascular disease, health behaviors, mortality, and maternal, infant, and adolescent health. She has published widely in public health and medical journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Epidemiology.
From 2001-2006, she was a Health Disparities Scholar through the National Institutes of Health, and since 1997, she has been a coordinating committee member of the Spirit of 1848, a caucus of the American Public Health Association which focuses in issues related to health and social justice.
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Professional Interests
Social epidemiology; social inequalities in health; neighborhood environments and health; conceptualization and measurement of socioeconomic status/position
Education
- Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Research
- Vegetables On Wheels (VOW): A pilot program to increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables in a rural Texas community
- Evaluation Plan: Community Transformation Grant
- Evaluation Project: Increasing Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Services in Rural, Frontier, and Border Counties
- RWJ Commission to Build a Healthier America (2010)
- Environmental effects on disparities in smoking and obesity among women (American Cancer Society)
- Obesity Prevention ARRA Evaluation (TX DSHS) (2012)
RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH THE POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER
Social Work Building
Room:3.130MPhone:(512) 232-8374
Fax:(512) 471-9514
Emailccubbin@austin.utexas.edu
Mailing Address
The University of TexasSchool of Social Work
1 University Station D3510
Austin, TX 78712-0358
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