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Professor Cagney's work examines social inequality and its relationship with health, focusing on neighborhood effects, race, aging, and the life course. She has developed a series of papers analyzing neighborhood social capital and its relationship to health outcomes such as self-rated health, asthma prevalence, physical activity, and mortality, particularly in the context of the 1995 Chicago heatwave. Professor Cagney is dedicated to enhancing the validity of measures and developing new neighborhood-based metrics that accurately reflect the perceptions and experiences of older residents. In addition to her role as a professor, she holds research professorships at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and the Survey Research Center, as well as the Population Studies Center.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the U-M Institute for Social Research.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science