Arline Geronimus

Arline T. Geronimus is an American public health researcher and research professor at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center. She is also the Center's associate director and a professor of Health Behavior & Health Education at the University of Michigan. She is known for proposing the "weathering hypothesis", which posits that cumulative racism experienced by black women cause them to experience inferior birth outcomes as their maternal age increases.[1][2] She has also studied other issues regarding pregnancy, including the effect of teenage childbearing on the mother's economic status[3] and the effect of immigration enforcement raids on low birth weight.[4]

Geronimus received an Bachelor of Arts degree in politics (A.B., 1978) from Princeton University, and a Doctor of Science (Sc.D., 1985) in behavioral sciences from the Harvard University School of Public Health.[5]


References
  1. Norris, Michele (8 July 2011). "Why Black Women, Infants Lag In Birth Outcomes". NPR. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  2. Epstein, Helen (12 October 2003). "Ghetto Miasma; Enough To Make You Sick?". The New York Times Miasma. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  3. Lewin, Tamar (7 March 1990). "Studies Cause Confusion on Impact of Teen-Age Pregnancy". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  4. Collins, Nathan (2 February 2017). "How Immigration Raids Lead to Lower Birth Weights". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  5. CV for Arline Geronimus at Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, accessed w26 December 2020.


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