Research & Publications

Research Interests

  • Social and environmental determinants of health and health inequalities across the life course
  • Psychosocial stress mechanisms shaping chronic disease morbidity and mortality
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in health and wellbeing
  • Causal inference, multilevel modeling, and machine learning

My research examines how social environments, structural conditions, and psychosocial processes jointly shape population health. Drawing from epidemiology, causal inference, and behavioral science, my work investigates the pathways through which socioeconomic status, psychosocial stress, and environmental exposures influence chronic disease and mortality. I use rigorous quantitative methods to identify how behavioral, biological, and psychological mechanisms contribute to health inequities across the life course. Much of my research focuses on understanding heterogeneity in population health outcomes and uncovering the social processes that drive unequal patterns of risk and resilience.

Work in Progress

Justin Rodgers, S.V. Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi, David R. Williams. Socioeconomic status, psychosocial stress, and all-cause mortality among middle- and older-age adults in the U.S. Under Review.
Justin Rodgers, Ichiro Kawachi, David R. Williams, S.V. Subramanian. Domains of psychosocial stress and all-cause mortality: individual and cumulative effects among U.S. adults, 1995–2015. Under Review.

Selected Publications

Justin Rodgers, Becky A. Briesacher, Robert B. Wallace, Ichiro Kawachi, Christopher F. Baum, Daniel Kim. County-level housing affordability in relation to risk factors for cardiovascular disease among middle-aged adults: The National Longitudinal Survey of Youths 1979. Health & Place. September 2019; 59:102194.
Justin Rodgers, Anna V. Valuev, Yulin Hswen, S.V. Subramanian. Social capital and physical health: An updated review of the literature for 2007–2018. Social Science & Medicine. September 2019; 236:112360.
Justin Rodgers, Hwa-Young Lee, Rockli Kim, Nachiket Mor, S.V. Subramanian. Geographic variation in caesarean delivery in India. Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology. January 2022; 36: 92-103.

All Publications

Sun Yeop Lee, Rockli Kim, Justin Rodgers, S.V. Subramanian. Assessment of the predictive power of a causal variable: An application to the Head Start Impact Study. SSM – Population Health. September 2022; 19:101223.
Sun Yeop Lee, Justin Rodgers, Rockli Kim, S.V. Subramanian. Distributional effects on children’s cognitive and social-emotional outcomes in the Head Start Impact Study: A quantile regression approach. SSM – Population Health. June 2022; 18:101108.
Sun Yeop Lee, Rockli Kim, Justin Rodgers, S.V. Subramanian. Assessment of heterogeneous Head Start treatment effects on cognitive and social-emotional outcomes. Scientific Reports. April 2022; 12:6411
Justin Rodgers, Hwa-Young Lee, Rockli Kim, Nachiket Mor, S.V. Subramanian. Geographic variation in caesarean delivery in India. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. January 2022; 36:92-103.
Sun Yeop Lee, Rockli Kim, Justin Rodgers, S.V. Subramanian. Treatment effect heterogeneity in the Head Start Impact Study: A systematic review of study characteristics and findings. SSM – Population Health. December 2021; 16:100916.
Anoop Jain, Justin Rodgers, Rockli Kim, S.V. Subramanian. The relative importance of households as a source of variation in child malnutrition: a multilevel analysis in India. International Journal of Equity in Health. October 2021; 20:225
Anoop Jain, Justin Rodgers, Zhongxing Li, Rockli Kim, S.V. Subramanian. Multilevel analysis of geographic variation among correlates of child undernutrition in India. Maternal and Child Nutrition. July 2021; 17:e13197.
Sanjay K. Mohanty, Justin Rodgers, Rajeev R. Singh, Radhe S. Mishra, Rockli Kim, Junaid Khan, Priyamadhaba Behera, S.V. Subramanian. Morbidity compression or expansion? A temporal analysis of the age at onset of non-communicable diseases in India. GeroScience. February 2021; 43(1):409-422.
Sun Yeop Lee, Rockli Kim, Justin Rodgers, S.V. Subramanian. Associations between subjective wellbeing and macroeconomic indicators: An assessment of heterogeneity across 60 countries. Wellbeing, Space & Society. November 2020; 1:100011.
Adolfo G. Cuevas, Anthony D. Ong, Keri Carvalho, Thao Ho, Sze Wan (Celine) Chan, Jennifer D. Allen, Ruijia Chen, Justin Rodgers, Ursala Biba, David R. Williams. Discrimination and systemic inflammation: A critical review and synthesis. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. October 2020; 89:465-479.
Justin Rodgers, Sujay Kakarmath, Vanessa Denis, Marta Encinas-Martin, S.V. Subramanian. Association between numeracy and self-rated poor health in 33 high- and upper middle- income countries. Preventive Medicine. December 2019; 129:105872.
Justin Rodgers, Becky A. Briesacher, Robert B. Wallace, Ichiro Kawachi, Christopher F. Baum, Daniel Kim. County-level housing affordability in relation to risk factors for cardiovascular disease among middle-aged adults: The National Longitudinal Survey of Youths 1979. Health & Place. September 2019; 59:102194.
Justin Rodgers, Anna V. Valuev, Yulin Hswen, S.V. Subramanian. Social capital and physical health: An updated review of the literature for 2007–2018. Social Science & Medicine. September 2019; 236:112360.
Adolfo G. Cuevas, Thao Ho, Justin Rodgers, Danielle DeNufrio, Lindsey Alley, Jennifer Allen, David R. Williams. Developmental timing of initial racial discrimination exposure is associated with cardiovascular health conditions in adulthood. Ethnicity & Health. May 2019; 26(7):949-962
Susan E. Peters, Michael P. Grant, Justin Rodgers, Justin Manjourides, Cassandra A. Okechukwu, Jack Dennerlein. A cluster randomized controlled trial of a Total Worker Health intervention on commercial construction sites. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health. October 2018; 15(11):2354.
Andy S.L. Tan, Vaughan W. Rees, Justin Rodgers, Emeka Agudile, Natasha A. Sokol, Kyeungyeun Yie, Ashley Sanders-Jackson. Effects of exposure to anti-vaping public service announcements among current smokers and dual users of cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems. Drug & Alcohol Dependence. July 2018; 188:251-258.