Helen Carmon Spink Meier
Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Meier’s research focuses on biosocial approaches to health inequalities and aging. She is an epidemiologist and uses a life course framework to understand the molecular pathways by which social and environmental exposures occurring throughout life get “under the skin” to affect adult and later life health. Dr. Meier is specifically interested in the biology of immune aging and immunological dysfunction as key factors in the aging process. Dr. Meier investigates health and health inequities using a multi-level approach from biomarkers to structural drivers.
- Tung, Ryan, O'Neill, Carly, Smith, Trey, Hardi, Felicia A., Goetschius, Leigh G., Edward Huntley, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Luke Williamson Hyde, Notterman, Dan, Christopher S Monk, Colter Mitchell. 2026. Associations between surrogates of prenatal lead DNA methylation and adolescent neural network architecture. Brain and Environment 5:100013.
- Jeffrey J. Wing, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Jenna I. Rajczyk, Gia E. Barboza-Salerno, Jonathan R. Powell, Bernadette Boden-Albala. 2026. Trajectory of longitudinal lending discrimination modifies the efficacy of a skills-based intervention in stroke survivors. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 35(2):108533.
- Lima, Sarah M, Palermo, Tia M, Tian, Lili, Lee, Furrina F, Insaf, Tabassum Z, Taylor, Jr, Henry Louis, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Erwin, Deborah O, Ochs-Balcom, Heather M. 2026. Historical redlining, breast cancer survival, and the mediating and modifying role of contemporary neighborhood socioeconomic conditions. American Journal of Epidemiology
- Bruce C. Mitchell, Liang Chen, Helen Carmon Spink Meier. 2026. Measuring gentrification: A comparative evaluation of quantitative methods in Washington, DC. Journal of Urban Affairs
- Liang Chen, Helen Carmon Spink Meier. 2026. Urban Voids and Neighborhood Health: Assessing Associations Between Vacant Land and Adverse Health Behaviors in Chicago. GeoHealth 10(4):e2025GH001509.
- Lima, Sarah M., Palermo, Tia M., Aldstadt, Jared, Tian, Lili, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Louis, Henry Taylor, Ochs-Balcom, Heather M.. 2025. Historical redlining and clustering of present-day breast cancer factors. Cancer Causes & Control 36:483-495.
- Xu, Lantian, Li, Chihua, Aiello, Allison E., Kenneth M Langa, Dowd, Jennifer B., Stebbins, Rebecca C., Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Jiang, Ziman, Grace Noppert, Li, Gen. 2025. Compositional analysis of lymphocytes and their relationship with health outcomes: findings from the health and retirement study. Immunity & Ageing 22(1):1-15.
- Sarah Elizabeth Laurent, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Linnea Laestadius, Colter Mitchell, Luke Williamson Hyde, Christopher S Monk, Helen Carmon Spink Meier. 2025. Historic Structural Racism and Perceived Stress in Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health 76(5):p935-938.
- Woo, Jennifer M P, Lawrence, Kaitlyn G, Xu, Zongli, Auer, Paul L, Simanek, Amanda M, Konkel, Rebecca Headley, Taylor, Jack A, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Sandler, Dale P. 2025. Early life trauma patterns and adult epigenome-wide and NR3C1-specific DNA methylation in the Sister Study. American Journal of Epidemiology
- Yueying Hu, Michael R Elliott, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Liang Chen, Walters, Monica E, Ketlyne Sol, Laura Beth Zahodne. 2025. The Impact of Census-Tract Level Mortgage Discrimination on Cognitive Function: Accounting for Measurement Instability in Small-Area Data via Joint Modeling. American Journal of Epidemiology