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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kimberly Rollings, Grace Noppert, Jennifer J. Griggs, Andrew M. Ibrahim, Philippa J Clarke. 2024. Comparing Deprivation vs Vulnerability Index Performance Using Medicare Beneficiary Surgical Outcomes. JAMA Surgery 159(12):1404-1413.
- Kate Duchowny, Diaz-Ramirez, L Grisell, Boscardin, W John, Perera, Rohini, Lin-Gomez, Scarlett, Cawthon, Peggy M, Grace Noppert, Philippa J Clarke. 2024. The Neighborhood Environment and Handgrip Strength: Longitudinal Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 79(11):glae242.
- Kate Duchowny, Alexander K. Smith, Irena Cenzer, Chelsea Brown, Grace Noppert, Kristine Yaffe, Amy L. Byers, Carla Perissinotto, Ashwin A. Kotwal. 2024. 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
- 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.
- 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, 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.