
Jessica Danielle Faul
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BIO
Jessica Faul is a Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. She is the co-director of the Biospecimen Lab at ISR, and is affiliated with the Michigan Center on Demography and Aging (MiCDA), the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), and the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center. Her work focuses on socioeconomic predictors of health and health inequalities across the life course. Her research integrates biological, genetic and social science data to examine determinants of health and cognitive function at older ages. Dr. Faul is a co-Investigator on the Health and Retirement Study and is responsible for overseeing nearly all of the core operations of HRS and has been an integral player in all of the HRS biomarker and genomic data collection and analytic efforts. As the co-director of the ISR Biospecimen Lab, Dr. Faul routinely advises on biological data collection protocols for other large-scale population-based studies to help ensure high quality and valid assessment of biological data collected in the field. Dr. Faul currently co-leads the NIA-sponsored Biomarker Network which aims to develop an interdisciplinary group of scientists dedicated to improved measurement of biological risk for late life health outcomes in large population-representative samples.
- Hernandez, Raymond, Stone, Arthur A, Zelinski, Elizabeth, Meijer, Erik, Galama, Titus, Jessica Danielle Faul, Kapteyn, Arie, Junghaenel, Doerte U, Jin, Haomiao, Gatz, Margaret, Lee, Pey-Jiuan, Maupin, Daniel, Gao, Hongxin, Orriens, Bart, Schneider, Stefan. 2025. Evidence Supports the Validity and Reliability of Response Times from a Brief Survey as a Digital Biomarker for Processing Speed in a Large Panel Study. American Journal of Epidemiology
- Lisha Lin, Wei Zhao, Zheng Li, Scott M. Ratliff, Yi Zhe Wang, Colter Mitchell, Jessica Danielle Faul, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Kira S Birditt, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Poly-epigenetic scores for cardiometabolic risk factors interact with demographic factors and health behaviors in older US Adults. Epigenetics
- Roselli, Carolina, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Wei Zhao, Jennifer Ann Smith, Et al.. 2025. Meta-analysis of genome-wide associations and polygenic risk prediction for atrial fibrillation in more than 180,000 cases. Nature Genetics
- Crimmins, Eileen M, Hernandez, Belinda, Potter, Claire, Kim, Jung Ki, Higgins-Chen, Albert, Kenny, Rose Anne, O'Halloran, Aisling M, McGuinness, Bernadette, Smyth, Laura J, Hill, Claire, Fiorito, Giovanni, Jessica Danielle Faul, McKnight, Amy Jayne, McCrory, Cathal. 2025. Epigenetic Clocks Relate to Four Age-Related Health Outcomes Similarly across Three Countries. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- , ..., Wei Zhao, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, et al.. 2025. Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals. Nature
- van Alten, Sjoerd, Domingue, Benjamin W., Jessica Danielle Faul, Galama, Titus, Marees, Andries T.. 2025. Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS increases SNP effect sizes and heritability estimates. Nature Communications 16(1):1-11.
- Opsasnick, Lauren A., Wei Zhao, Schmitz, Lauren L., Ratliff, Scott M., Jessica Danielle Faul, Zhou, Xiang, Belinda Needham, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Depressive symptoms partially mediate the relationship between psychosocial factors and epigenetic age acceleration in a multi-racial/ethnic sample of older adults. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health 45:100994.
- Lauren A. Opsasnick, Wei Zhao, Lauren L. Schmitz, Scott M. Ratliff, Jessica Danielle Faul, Xiang Zhou, Belinda L. Needham, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2024. Epigenome-wide association study of long-term psychosocial stress in older adults. Epigenetics 19(1)
- Natalia Olchanski, Yingying Zhu, Lichen Liang, Joshua T. Cohen, Jessica Danielle Faul, Howard M. Fillit, Karen M. Freund, Pei-Jung Lin. 2024. Racial and ethnic differences in disease course Medicare expenditures for beneficiaries with dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 72(4):1223-1233.
- van Alten, Sjoerd, Domingue, Benjamin W, Jessica Danielle Faul, Galama, Titus, Marees, Andries T. 2024. Reweighting UK Biobank corrects for pervasive selection bias due to volunteering. International Journal of Epidemiology 53(3)