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Flores-Lagunes to study effects of education on obesity, mental health

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, professor of economics, has received a $169,785 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the effects of educational attainment on obesity and mental health. The award forms part of a three-year project, “Genes, Education, and Gene-Education Interactions in Obesity and Mental Health,” led by Central Michigan University, with CMU’s Vikesh Amin, assistant professor of economics, serving as the principal investigator. The overall project is funded by an NIH Research Project Grant worth $984,812.
September 20, 2018

See related: Grant Awards, Mental Health

Monnat paper on opioid-related mortality in rural America published in Int Journal of Drug Policy

Khary K. Rigga, Shannon M. Monnat & Melody N. Chavez
June 30, 2018

See related: Addiction, Health Policy, Longevity, United States

Heflin study on impact of food program coverage gap published in AEPP

Irma Arteaga, Colleen Heflin & Sarah Parsons
June 6, 2018

See related: Food Security

Heflin article on coverage gap in food programs for children in kindergarden published in AEP&P

Irma Arteaga, Colleen Heflin & Sarah Parsons
May 20, 2018

See related: Food Security

Karas Montez study on education–mortality association published in Biodemography and Social Biology

Jennifer Karas Montez & Isaac Sasson
May 10, 2018

See related: Education, Longevity, United States

Flores-Lagunes paper on differential incidence and severity of food insecurity published in AER

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Hugo B. Jales, Judith Liu & Norbert L. Wilson
April 30, 2018

See related: Food Security

Monnat study on factors associated with differences in drug-related mortality published in AJPM

Shannon M. Monnat
March 25, 2018

See related: Addiction, Longevity

Heflin article on food pantry assistance and the Great Recession published in JHEN

Colleen Heflin & Ashley Price
March 8, 2018

See related: Food Security

Heflin study on material hardship published in Social Problems

Colleen Heflin
November 9, 2017

See related: Food Security

Dennison discusses economic costs of obesity in Obesity Medicine

Thomas H. Dennison
September 25, 2017

See related: Health Policy

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