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Chloe E. BirdSanta Monica Office Senior Behavioral & Social Scientist EducationPh.D. in sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A. in sociology, Oberlin College |
Biography
Chloe E. Bird, PhD, is a Senior Behavioral/Social Scientist at RAND, where she is an expert on gender differences in physical and mental health and social determinants of health. She is PI of a study of the impact of neighborhoods and behaviors on allostatic load and morbidity and of an NHLBI-funded study of neighborhood effects on incident CVD among women based on data from the Women's Health Initiative. In her book, Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choice and Social Policies, she and coauthor Patricia Rieker integrate social and biological models to improve understanding of the contributions of the contexts in which we live to differences in men's and women's health.
Research Focus
Gender, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health and health care; neighborhood effects on health and health care; gender, work and family
RAND Research Areas
Recent Projects
- Women, Neighborhoods and Coronary Heart Disease: A Perspective Study. The overarching objective of the proposed project is to examine the impact of neighborhood factors on women's development of CHD.
- Neighborhoods, Behaviors, Allostatic Load, and Health. The study explores how neighborhood context affects and interacts with individual behavior and biology to determine health and disease.
Selected Publications
Chloe E. Bird, Patricia P. Rieker, Gender and Health: The effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Cathy Donald Sherbourne, Maria Orlando Edelen, Annie Zhou, Chloe E. Bird, Naihua Duan, Ken Wells, "How A Quality-Based Improvement Intervention for Depression Affected Life Events and Psychological Well-Being Over Time: A Nine-Year Longitudinal Analysis", Medical Care, 46(1) 78-84, 2008
David P. Eisenman, Chloe E. Bird, Rebecca Collins, Daniella Golinelli, Allen Fremont, Robin Beckman, William E. Cunningham, "Differential Diffusion of New HIV Technologies by Gender: The Case of HAART", AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 21(6) 390-399, 2007
Chloe E. Bird et al., "Does Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Differ by Gender for Enrollees in Managed Care Plans?", Women's Health Issues, 17(3), 2007
D. Phong Do, Tamara Dubowitz, Chloe E. Bird, Nicole Lurie, Jose J. Escarce, Brian K. Finch, "Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988-1994)", Economics and Human Biology, 5(2) 179-203, 2007
Typhanye V. Penniman, Stephanie L. Taylor, Chloe E. Bird, Robin Beckman, Rebecca Collins, William Cunningham, "The Roles of Gender, Sexual Identity and Competing Needs on Health Care Utilization among People with HIV/AIDS", Journal of the National Medical Association, 99 419-427, 2007
Do, D. Phuong, Brian Karl Finch, Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Chloe E. Bird, Jose J. Escarce, and Nicole Lurie, "Does Place Explain Racial Health Disparities? Quantifying the Contribution of Residential Context to the Black/White Health Gap in the United States", Social Science & Medicine (In press)
Tamara Dubowitz, Melonie Heron, Chloe E. Bird, Nicole Lurie, Brian Finch, Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Lauren Hale, and Jose Escarce, "Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Fruit and Vegetable Intake among Whites, Blacks, and Mexican-Americans in the United States", American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (In press)
Research Focus
Social determinants of health and health care, gender, race, and socioeconomic disparities in access to, utilization of, and quality of care
Recent Projects
- Neighborhood effects on gender, racial/ethnic, and SES disparities in health
- Differences in the social organization of men's and women's lives and effects on health
Selected Publications
Gender and Health: The effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies, Chloe E. Bird, Patricia P. Rieker, Cambridge University Press, January 2008
"Neighborhood Context and Race Differences in Body Mass Index: A Multilevel Analysis," D. Phong Do et al., Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 5, No. 2, July 2007
"Differential Diffusion of New HIV Technologies by Gender: The Case of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy," David Eisenman et al., AIDS Patient Care and STDs, Vol. 21, No. 6, June 2007
"Does Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Differ by Gender for Enrollees in Managed Care Plans?" Chloe E. Bird et al., Women's Health Issues, Vol. 17, No. 3, May/June 2007
"Patterns and Correlates of Deliberate Abstinence Among Men and Women with HIV/AIDS," Laura M. Bogart et al., American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 96, No. 6, June 2006
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: U.S. News & World Report
To arrange an interview:
Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.
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