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.
- Ashly C. Westrick, Darlingtina K. Esiaka, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Ronica N. Rooks, Mark Manning, Wassim Tarraf. 2024. Cognition and Wealth Changes in Mid-to-later Life: A Latent Class Trajectories Approach Using the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Aging and Health
- Olivia D. Chang, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Pamela Davis-Kean, Colter Mitchell. 2024. Childhood Maltreatment and Longitudinal Epigenetic Aging. JAMA Network Open 7(7):e2421877-e2421877.
- Amanda M. Simanek, Meng Xiong, Jennifer M.P. Woo, Cheng Zheng, Yuan S. Zhang, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Allison E. Aiello. 2023. Association Between Prenatal Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Adverse Birth Outcomes, and Inflammatory Response at Birth. Psychoneuroendocrinology 153:106090.
- Vivek, Sithara, Crimmins, Eileen M., Prizment, Anna E., Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Ramasubramanian, Ramya, Barcelo, Helene, Jessica Danielle Faul, Thyagarajan, Bharat. 2023. Age-related differences in T cell subsets and markers of subclinical inflammation in aging are independently associated with type 2 diabetes in the Health and Retirement Study. Canadian Journal of Diabetes 47(7):594-602.e6.
- Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Colter Mitchell, Tommy Karadimas, Jessica Danielle Faul. 2023. Systemic inflammation and biological aging in the Health and Retirement Study. GeroScience 45:3257-3265 .
- Ramasubramian, Ramya, Kim, Jae Won, Guan, Weihua, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Crimmins, Eileen, Jessica Danielle Faul, Thyagarajan, Bharat. 2023. Cohabitation as a determinant of adaptive and innate immune cell profiles: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health 33:100676.
- Seshadri, Gokul, Vivek, Sithara, Prizment, Anna, Crimmins, Eileen, Klopack, Eric, Jessica Danielle Faul, Guan, Weihua, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Thyagarajan, Bharat. 2023. Immune cells are associated with mortality: The Health and Retirement Study. Frontiers in Immunology 14:1280144.
- Mark D. Peterson, Stacey Diane Collins, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Alexander Brahmsteadt, Jessica Danielle Faul. 2022. Grip strength is inversely associated with DNA methylation age acceleration. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle 14(1):108-115.
- Emily E. Lynch, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Sarah E. Laurent, Jason Richardson, Bruce C. Mitchell, Helen Carmon Spink Meier. 2021. The legacy of structural racism: Associations between historic redlining, current mortgage lending, and health. SSM - Population Health 14:100793.
- Simanek, Amanda M., Meier,Helen Carmon Spink, Aimee A. D’Aloisio, Sandler, Dale P.. 2021. Objective and subjective childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and incident depression in adulthood: a longitudinal analysis in the Sister Study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 56(7):1201-1210.