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Catherine Cubbin, Ph.D.Associate Professor |
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Professional Interests
Social epidemiology; social inequalities in health; neighborhood environments and health; conceptualization and measurement of socioeconomic status/position
Education
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
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.
Teaching
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
Visit the School's Electronic Classroom for course list and syllabi.
Research Projects
Completed projects have the year of completion.
Research Projects with the Population Research Center
- Measuring wealth in health disparities research: practical recommendations (2010)
- Texas Teen Opportunity Project (T-TOP) (2010)
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
Cubbin C, Vesely S, Braveman P, Oman R. Socioeconomic factors and health risk behaviors among adolescents, in press, American Journal of Health Behavior.
Braveman P, Cubbin C, Egerter S, Williams D, Pamuk E. Socioeconomic disparities in health in the United States: What do the patterns tell us, in press, AJPH.
Cubbin C, Marchi KS, Lin M, Bell T, Marshall H, Miller C, Braveman PA. Is neighborhood deprivation independently associated with maternal and infant health? Evidence from Florida and Washington. Maternal and Child Health Journal 2008;12:61-74.
Wang MC, Cubbin C, Ahn D, Winkleby MA. Changes in Neighborhood Food Store Environment, Food Behavior and BMI, 1981-1990. Public Health Nutrition 2008;11:963-970.
Yen I, Scherzer T, Cubbin C, Gonzalez A, Winkleby M. Women's perceptions of neighborhood resources and hazards related to diet, physical activity, and smoking: focus group results from economically distinct neighborhoods in a mid-sized U.S. city. American Journal of Health Promotion 2007;22:98-106.
Lee RE, Cubbin C, Winkleby M. Contribution of neighborhood socioeconomic status and physical activity resources to physical activity in women. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2007;61:882-890.
Pollack C, Chideya S, Cubbin C, Williams B, Braveman PA. Should health studies measure wealth: A systematic review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2007;33:250-264.
Winkleby MA, Cubbin C, Ahn D. Effect of cross-level interaction between individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status on adult mortality rates. American Journal of Public Health 2006;96:2145-2153.
Braveman PA, Cubbin C, Egerter S, Chideya S, Marchi KS, Posner S, Metzler M, Socioeconomic Status in Health Research: One Size Does Not Fit All. JAMA 2005;294:2879-2888.
Cubbin C, Santelli J, Brindis C, Braveman PA. Neighborhood context and sexual behaviors among adolescents: findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 2005;37:125-134.
Pollack C, Cubbin C, Ahn D, Winkleby MA. Neighborhood deprivation and alcohol consumption: does the availability of alcohol play a role. International Journal of Epidemiology 2005;34:772-780.
Cubbin C, Winkleby MA. Protective and harmful effects of neighborhood-level deprivation on individual-level health knowledge, behavior changes, and risk of coronary heart disease. American Journal of Epidemiology 2005;162:559-568.
Chuang YC, Cubbin C, Winkleby MA, Ahn D. Effects of neighborhood socioeconomic status and convenience store concentration on individual-level smoking. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005;59:568-73.
Braveman PA, Egerter S, Cubbin C, Marchi KS. An Approach to Studying Social Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health and Health Care. American Journal of Public Health 2004;94:2139-2148.
Winkleby, MA, Cubbin C. Changing Patterns in Health Behaviors and Risk Factors Related to Chronic Diseases, 1990-2000. American Journal of Health Promotion 2004;19(1):479-87.
Winkleby MA, Cubbin C. Influence of Individual and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status on Mortality among Black, Mexican-American, and White Women and Men in the United States. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2003;57:444-52.
Cubbin C, Braveman PA, Marchi KS, Chavez GF, Santelli JS, Colley-Gilbert BJ. Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in unintended pregnancy among postpartum women in California. Maternal and Child Health Journal 2002;6:237-46.
Cubbin C, Smith GS. Socioeconomic Inequalities in Injury: Critical Issues in Design and Analysis. Annual Review of Public Health 2002;23:349 375.
Lee RE, Cubbin C. Neighborhood context and cardiovascular behavioral risk factors in youth. American Journal of Public Health 2002;92:428-436.
Cubbin C, Hadden WC, Winkleby MA. Neighborhood context and cardiovascular disease risk factors: the contribution of material deprivation. Ethnicity and Disease 2001;11:687-700.
Cubbin C, LeClere FB, Smith GS. Socioeconomic status and fatal injuries: individual and neighborhood determinants. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2000;54:517-524.
Cubbin C, Pickle LW, Fingerhut LA. Social Context and the Geographic Patterns of Homicide in Black and White Males in the United States. American Journal of Public Health 2000;90:579-587.
Cubbin C, LeClere FB, Smith GS. Socioeconomic status and the occurrence of fatal and nonfatal injury in the United States. American Journal of Public Health 2000;90:70-77.