CPHI Associate Fellow

Website: www.zouamvang.com

Public Health Interests:

racial and ethnic health disparities; population health; infant mortality; birth outcomes; homicide, neighborhoods and health; immigrant and minority health; social determinants of health

Current Public-Health Related Activities:

My academic research focuses on immigration, assimilation, race/ethnic relations, neighborhood effects, and more recently, population health and health disparities. My formal training is in sociology but my research topics and the methodologies I use are interdisciplinary and bridge the fields of demography, geography, public health, and anthropology.  Thus, to date, my involvement in public health has been primarily through research-related activities.  In my post-doc research, I apply demographic methods and spatial statistics to examine the individual and contextual risks associated with infant mortality, birth outcomes, maternal health, and adult chronic diseases among immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities in the United States.   

Select Publications:

Vang, Zoua M. 2008.  “Health and Residential Segregation.”  In Judith A.  Warner (Ed.), Battleground Immigration: The New Immigrants, Vol. 1.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

Vang, Zoua M.  Forthcoming.  “Housing Supply and Residential Segregation in Ireland.”  Urban Studies.