Thursday, March 31 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Delaware Suite A

Session 6:
Race, Ethnicity, and Health: Contextual Influences

Chair: Emily Rosenbaum, Fordham University
Discussant: Bridget K. Gorman, Rice University

  1. Racial Differences in Concurrent Heterosexual Partnering among Sexually Active Young Adult Women: The Role of Neighborhood Structural ConditionsJodi Ford, Ohio State University

  2. School Environment and Obesity among Urban AdolescentsMichael D. M. Bader, University of Pennsylvania ; Catherine Richards, Columbia University ; Kathryn Neckerman, Columbia University ; James W. Quinn, Columbia University ; Christopher C. Weiss, Columbia University ; Gina Lovasi, Columbia University ; Andrew Rundle, Columbia University

  3. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Objective and Subjective Obesity: The Role of Individual and Neighborhood CharacteristicsMing Wen, University of Utah ; Lori Kowaleski-Jones, University of Utah ; Zhang Xingyou, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  4. Spatial Assimilation and Health: The Structural and Social Effects of Living inside and outside of an Ethnic NeighborhoodEmily Walton, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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