Age and the Life Course
- Stress, trauma, proactivity, and well-being in late life
- Cumulative dis/advantage and inequality over the life course
- Inequality in retirement and the end of the work career
- Interplay between work and family
- Care-getting and caregiving during the final years of life
Medicine and Health Cares
- Race, class, and gender influences on physician decision-making
- Social construction of diseases and diagnoses
- Health communication and health care advocacy
- National and international health policy
Population and Individual Health
- Neighborhood and community influences on health
- Cancer survivorship
- Health and mortality disparities over the life course
- Disability trajectories in midlife and older adulthood
Social Inequality
- Urban poverty and quality of life
- Occupational sex segregation and the gendered pay gap
- Race, class, gender issues for poor and working class families
- Theory and ideology in medicine and science
Public Policy and Community Action
- International children’s rights
- Law and social policy
- Action research and reform in long term care institutions
- Individual, institutional, and global responses to inequality