Michal Engelman
Credentials: Professor, Sociology; WLS Director
Email: mengelman@ssc.wisc.edu
Address:
4434 Sewell Social Sciences
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
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Engelman’s research combines perspectives from the social sciences and public health to examine the social determinants of health and longevity. She is particularly interested in how social stratification (by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, nativity, and geography) manifests in health and mortality inequities. Engelman is the Director of the Center for Demography of Health & Aging, Director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study and the Director of the doctoral and postdoctoral training program in Population, Life Course, and Aging. Her current research projects include several NIH-supported studies exploring the impact of neighborhood disadvantage on accelerated epigenetic aging (REWARD) and linkages between early and midlife exposures and cognitive health in later life (ILIAD).
CDE Research Area Affiliations:
Health and the Life Course; Demography of Inequality; Biodemography; Spatial and Environmental Demography
Selected Publications:
Xu, Wei, Christina Kamis, Megan Agnew, Amy Schultz, Sarah Salas, Kristen Malecki, and Michal Engelman. “The health implications of cumulative exposure to contextual (dis) advantage: Methodological and substantive advances from a unique data linkage.” American Journal of Epidemiology (2024): kwae183.
Kamis, Christina, Wei Xu, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, and Michal Engelman. “Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis) advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health.” Health & Place 88 (2024): 103262.
Clark, Joseph A., Michal Engelman, Amy A. Schultz, Andrew J. Bersch, and Kristen Malecki. “Sense of neighborhood belonging and health: geographic, racial, and socioeconomic variation in Wisconsin.” Frontiers in Public Health 12 (2024): 1376672.