Helen Carmon Spink Meier
Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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BIO
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.
- Lima, Sarah M., Palermo, Tia M., Aldstadt, Jared, Tian, Lili, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Louis, Henry Taylor, Ochs-Balcom, Heather M.. 2025. Historical redlining and clustering of present-day breast cancer factors. Cancer Causes & Control :1-13.
- 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.
- Sarah Elizabeth Laurent, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Linnea Laestadius, Colter Mitchell, Luke Williamson Hyde, Christopher S Monk, Helen Carmon Spink Meier. 2025. Historic Structural Racism and Perceived Stress in Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health
- Woo, Jennifer M P, Lawrence, Kaitlyn G, Xu, Zongli, Auer, Paul L, Simanek, Amanda M, Konkel, Rebecca Headley, Taylor, Jack A, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Sandler, Dale P. 2025. Early life trauma patterns and adult epigenome-wide and NR3C1-specific DNA methylation in the Sister Study. American Journal of Epidemiology
- 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 36(9):510-522.
- 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.
- Christine G. Parks, Todd A. Jusko, Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Jesse Wilkerson, Lisa G. Rider, Frederick W. Miller, Dale P. Sandler. 2024. Sunscreen use associated with elevated prevalence of anti-nuclear antibodies in U.S. adults. Journal of Autoimmunity 149:103340.
- Chen, Liang, Mitchell, Bruce C., Richardson, Jason, Helen Carmon Spink Meier. 2024. Home Mortgage Lending and Neighborhood Mental Health: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of 18 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Journal of Urban Health 102(1):35-48.
- Thomas Leonidas Karadimas, Helen Carmon Spink Meier. 2024. Association between coexisting hypertension, dyslipidaemia and elevated C reactive protein with cardiovascular disease and mortality: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis in a representative cohort of older US adults. BMJ Public Health 2(2)
- 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.