Title:  Assistant Professor

Department:  Department of Health Sciences

School/Center:  School of Health Professions

Office Location:  316 Robinson Hall

Phone:  617-373-3667

Fax:  617-373-2968

Email:  t.osypuk@neu.edu

Education:  S.D. (Doctor of Science) Harvard University School of Public Health

S.M. (Masters of Science) Harvard University School of Public Health

A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) College of the Holy Cross

Postdoctoral training: University of Michigan, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program

Specializations:  Social Epidemiology; Epidemiology; Health Disparities.

Research:  Social Epidemiology; Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities; Racial Residential Segregation; Racial Discrimination; Social Policy; Social Inequality & Health; Neighborhood Effects; Neighborhoods, Housing, and Health;  Place and Health;  Research Methods
www.diversitydata.org

Courses:  Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology, Research Methods

Publications: 

Theresa L. Osypuk and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia. (In Press) “Who Doesn’t Support Smokefree Policies? A Nationwide Analysis of Immigrants, Native Born, and Other Demographic Groups 1995-2002”. American Journal of Public Health. 

Theresa L. Osypuk, SV Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi, and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia. (2009 In Press). “Is Workplace Smoking Policy Equally Prevalent and Equally Effective for Immigrants?” Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Published online first 8 April 2009.doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.079475. PMID: 19359272*

Theresa L. Osypuk, Ana V. Diez Roux, Craig Hadley, Namratha R. Kandula. (2009 In Press). “Are Immigrant Enclaves Healthy Places to Live? The Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis” Social Science & Medicine. First published on May 8, 2009 as doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.04.010 PMID: 19427731* 

Theresa L. Osypuk, Sandro Galea, Nancy McArdle and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia. (2009 In Press). "Quantifying Separate and Unequal: Racial-Ethnic Distributions of Neighborhood Poverty in Metropolitan America." Urban Affairs Review. First published on February 4, 2009 as doi:10.1177/1078087408331119 NO PMID #. http://uar.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1078087408331119v2  

Tamara Dubowitz, Theresa L. Osypuk, Kristen Kurland. (2009). “Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity: Neighborhood characteristics, food purchasing venues, green space and distribution of body mass index.” In: Social Inequality and Public Health. Salvatore J. Babones, ed. Bristol: The Policy Press. Pp. 25-44.

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk. (2008). “Invited Commentary: Residential segregation and health – the complexity of modeling separate social contexts”. American Journal of Epidemiology. 168(11):1255-1258. PMID: 18974060*

Theresa L. Osypuk and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia. (2008) "Are Preterm Birth Racial Disparities Larger in Hypersegregated Areas?" American Journal of Epidemiology. 167(11): 1295-1304. PMID: 18367470*

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk, Nancy McArdle, and David Williams. (2008) “Towards a Policy Relevant Analysis of Geographic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Child Health” Health Affairs. 27(2): 321-333. PMID: 18332486*

Tamara Dubowitz, SV Subramanian, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk, Karen Peterson. (2008) “Individual and Neighborhood Demographic Differences in Diet: Multilevel Analysis Among Low-Income Foreign and US Born Women.” Women's Health Issues. 18(3):181-90. PMID: 18222706*.

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Theresa L. Osypuk. (2008). “Impacts of Housing and Neighborhoods on Health: Pathways, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and Policy Directions” In: Segregation: The Rising Costs for America. James Carr, Nandinee Kutty, Eds. New York: Routledge Books, pp. 197-235.

Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Ana V. Diez Roux, Ben Hansen, & Theresa L. Osypuk. (2008). “Residential Environments and Obesity: What Can We Learn about Policy Interventions from Observational Studies?” In: Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy, R.F. Schoeni, J.S. House, G.A. Kaplan, & H. Pollack (Eds.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 309-343.

Theresa L. Osypuk and Sandro Galea. (2007). “What Level Macro? Choosing Appropriate Levels to Assess How Place Influences Population Health.” In: Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health. Sandro Galea, Ed. New York, NY: Springer Media, pp. 393-429. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55742

Nancy McArdle, Theresa L. Osypuk, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia (2007). "Disparities in Neighborhood Poverty of Poor Black and White Children." DiversityData Briefs: A report from diversitydata.org. May 2007. Boston MA: Harvard School of Public Health.
http://diversitydata.sph.harvard.edu/brief7.pdf

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Nancy McArdle, Theresa L. Osypuk, Barbara Krimgold, Bonnie Lefkowitz. (2007) "Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing American Children." DiversityData Briefs: A report from diversitydata.org.  Jan 2007. Boston MA: Harvard School of Public Health. http://diversitydata.sph.harvard.edu/children_left_behind_final_report.pdf

Theresa L. Osypuk, Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia. (2006) “Are State Patterns of Smoking Different for Different Racial/Ethnic Groups? An Application of Multilevel Analysis.” Public Health Reports, 121(5) 563-577.  PMID: 16972510*

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Theresa L. Osypuk. (2006). “Racial Disparities in Housing and Health.” In: Poverty and Race in America: The Emerging Agendas. Chester Hartman, ed. Washington, DC: Lexington Books, 130-136.

Dolores Acevedo Garcia, Jocelyn Pan, Hee-Jin Jun, Theresa L. Osypuk, Karen M. Emmons (2005). “The Effect of Immigrant Generation on Smoking”. Social Science and Medicine, 61(6): 1223-1242. PMID: 15970233*

SV Subramanian, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk (2005). “Racial Residential Segregation and Geographic Heterogeneity in Black/White Disparity in Poor Self-Rated Health in the U.S.: A Multilevel Statistical Analysis”. Social Science and Medicine, 60 (8): 1667-1679. PMID: 15686800*

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk, Rebecca E. Werbel, Ellen R. Meara, David M. Cutler, Lisa F. Berkman (2004). “Does Housing Mobility Policy Improve Health?” Housing Policy Debate, 15(1): 49-98. http://www.mi.vt.edu/data/files/hpd%2015(1)/hpd%2015(1)_article_acevedo.pdf

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Theresa L. Osypuk (2004). “Racial Disparities in Housing and Health.” Poverty and Race, 13(4): 1-2, 11-12. Poverty & Race Research Action Council. Washington, DC.
http://www.prrac.org/full_text.php?text_id=993&item_id=9313&newsletter_id=75&header=Housing

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Kimberly Lochner, Theresa L. Osypuk, SV Subramanian (2003). “Future Directions in Residential Segregation and Health Research: A Multilevel Approach.” American Journal of Public Health, 93(2): 215-221. PMID: 12554572*

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