Grace Noppert
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BIO
Dr. Noppert’s work lies at the intersection of biology, sociology, and epidemiology. Her work seeks to explain how social processes across the life course, such as socioeconomic status, impact a person’s biology. For example, does experiencing persistent disadvantage throughout life contribute to premature aging of the immune system?
She began her work as an infectious disease epidemiologist examining health disparities in tuberculosis (TB) in the U.S. Her work has consistently documented a strong social component underlying the distribution of TB. Those most vulnerable in the U.S. population are bearing the greatest burden of TB. Her current work now focuses on persistent viral infections (example: CMV, HSV-1, etc) and how they may be aging the immune system prematurely. However, in order to fully grasp the impact of these infections you have to look at the social environment. Understanding the link between social factors, infections, and immune function may hold clues to explaining persistent health disparities across the life course.
- MacConnachie, Lauren, Zhang, Yuan S., Farina, Mateo, Gutierrez, Carmen, Hoover, Andrew, He, Yuelin, Aiello, Allison E., Grace Noppert. 2024. The association between incarceration and housing insecurity and advanced immune age during late life. Social Science & Medicine 347:116698.
- MacConnachie, Lauren, Zhang, Yuan S., Farina, Mateo, Gutierrez, Carmen, Hoover, Andrew, He, Yuelin, Aiello, Allison E., Grace Noppert. 2024. The association between incarceration and housing insecurity and advanced immune age during late life. Social Science & Medicine 347:116698.
- Grace Noppert, Philippa J Clarke, Hoover, Andrew, Kubale, John, Robert A Melendez, Kate Duchowny, Hegde, Sonia T., Grace Noppert, Clarke, Philippa, Hoover, Andrew, Kubale, John, Melendez, Robert, Duchowny, Kate, Hegde, Sonia T.. 2024. State variation in neighborhood COVID-19 burden across the United States. Communications Medicine 4(1):1-12.
- James E. Cone, Lucie Millien, Cristina Pollari, Jennifer Brite, Heather Badger, John Kubale, Grace Noppert, Sonia Hegde, Robert Brackbill, Mark Farfel. 2024. The Association between Socioeconomic Status and Race/Ethnicity with Home Evacuation of Lower Manhattan Residents following the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center Disaster. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 21(6):803.
- Grace Noppert, Philippa J Clarke, Stebbins, Rebecca C, Kate Duchowny, Robert A Melendez, Kimberly Rollings, Aiello, Allison E. 2024. The embodiment of the neighborhood socioeconomic environment in the architecture of the immune system. PNAS Nexus 3(7):pgae253.
- Grace Noppert, Rebecca C. Stebbins, Jennifer Beam Dowd, Allison E. Aiello. 2023. Socioeconomic and race/ethnic differences in immunosenescence: evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 107:361-368.
- Grace Noppert, Kate Duchowny, Rebecca Stebbins, Allison E. Aiello, Jennifer B. Dowd, Philippa J Clarke. 2023. Biological expressions of early life trauma in the immune system of older adults. PLOS ONE 18(6):e0286141.
- Kimberly Rollings, Grace Noppert, Jennifer J. Griggs, Robert A Melendez, Philippa J Clarke. 2023. Comparison of two area-level socioeconomic deprivation indices: Implications for public health research, practice, and policy. PLOS ONE 18(10):e0292281.
- Guo, Boya, Zhao, Chenya, He, Mike Z., Senter, Camilla, Zhou, Zhenwei, Peng, Jin, Li, Song, Fitzpatrick, Annette L., Lindström, Sara, Stebbins, Rebecca C., Grace Noppert, Li, Chihua. 2023. Identifying patterns of reported findings on long-term cardiac complications of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medicine 21(468)
- Chihua Li, Stebbins, Rebecca C., Grace Noppert, Carney, Constanza X., Liu, Chunyu, Sapp, Ashley R. M., Watson, Elijah J., Aiello, Allison E.. 2023. Peripheral immune function and Alzheimer's disease: a living systematic review and critical appraisal. Molecular Psychiatry