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.
- Kate Duchowny, Zhang, Yuan S., Stebbins, Rebecca C., Ma, Xin, Chin, Jaydon Jun Yu, Chang, Virginia W., Aiello, Allison E., Grace Noppert. 2025. The aging immune system and all-cause mortality in older americans: differences across sex and race/ethnicity. Immunity & Ageing 22(1):1-11.
- Chemberlin, Elliott M, Kate Duchowny, Probst, Jaidyn, Richardson, Eugene T, Hegde, Sonia T, Grace Noppert. 2025. Towards Relationality in Infectious Disease Research. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 12(10):ofaf128.
- Chemberlin, Elliott M, Kate Duchowny, Probst, Jaidyn, Richardson, Eugene T, Hegde, Sonia T, Grace Noppert. 2025. Toward Relationality in Infectious Disease Research. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 12(10)
- 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.
- Kate Duchowny, Yuan Zhang, Philippa J Clarke, Allison E. Aiello, Grace Noppert. 2025. Examining the relationship between biomarkers of immune aging and prevalent physical disability in the health and retirement study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 125:140-147.
- Yuelin He, Jessica Danielle Faul, Kate Duchowny, Chihua Li, Rebecca Stebbins, Grace Noppert. 2025. Health impact of a hypothetical intervention on immune burden of cytomegalovirus (CMV) among older adults in the US: a prospective analysis of the Health and Retirement Study Cohort. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 47:101122.
- Kate Duchowny, Alexander K. Smith, Irena Cenzer, Chelsea Brown, Grace Noppert, Kristine Yaffe, Amy L. Byers, Carla Perissinotto, Ashwin A. Kotwal. 2025. The prevalence of lifetime trauma and association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 73(1):123-135.
- 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.
- Chihua Li, Stebbins, Rebecca C., Grace Noppert, Carney, Constanza X., Liu, Chunyu, Sapp, Ashley R. M., Watson, Elijah J., Aiello, Allison E.. 2024. Peripheral immune function and Alzheimer's disease: a living systematic review and critical appraisal. Molecular Psychiatry 29:1895-1905.
- Chihua Li, Yuan Zhang, Grace Noppert, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Alden Gross, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. Education, urbanicity of residence, and cardiometabolic biomarkers among middle-aged and older populations in the US, Mexico, China, and India. SSM - Population Health 28:101716.