Dr Jo Mhairi Hale

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3928

Email

Jo.Hale@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Dr. Jo Mhairi Hale received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Davis in 2016 then completed a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany in 2018, and has been at St Andrews ever since. She is dedicated to shedding light on the stark and far-reaching consequences of sociopolitical inequalities in hopes of contributing to dismantling power structures that perpetuate those inequities. She has focused primarily on population health disparities and disparities in outcomes for Mexican migrants to the USA, but is starting a new line of research with the Data for Justice team to study the health impacts of climate change.

PhD supervision

• Victor Emmanuel
• Ewan Jenkins
• Winifred Maduko
• Chau Cong Anh Nguyen

Selected publications

• Open access

  Racial, ethnic, nativity, and educational disparities in cognitive impairment and activity limitations in the United States, 1998-2016

  Sharma, S., Hale, J. M., Myrskylä, M. & Kulu, H., 1 Oct 2023, In: Demography. 60, 5, p. 1441-1468 28 p., 10941414.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  US racial-ethnic mortality gap adjusted for population structure

  Pifarré i Arolas, H., Acosta, E., Dudel, C., Hale, J. M. & Myrskylä, M., 1 May 2023, In: Epidemiology. 34, 3, 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Does postponing retirement affect cognitive function? A counterfactual experiment to disentangle life course risk factors

  Hale, J. M., Bijlsma, M. J. & Lorenti, A., Sept 2021, In: SSM - Population Health. 15, 12 p., 100855.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Trends in the risk of cognitive impairment in the United States, 1996-2014

  Hale, J. M., Schneider, D. C., Gampe, J., Mehta, N. K. & Myrskylä, M., Sept 2020, In: Epidemiology. 31, 5, p. 745-754

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Cognitive disparities: the impact of the Great Depression and cumulative inequality on later-life cognitive function

  Hale, J. M., Dec 2017, In: Demography. 54, 6, p. 2125-2158 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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