Belinda Needham

Belinda Needham

University of Michigan

H-index: 37

North America-United States

About Belinda Needham

Belinda Needham, With an exceptional h-index of 37 and a recent h-index of 33 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Michigan, specializes in the field of health disparities, biosocial interactions, aging and the life course.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Do Police Encounters Increase the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease? Police Encounters and Framingham 30-Year Cardiovascular Risk Score

Epigenome-wide association study of long-term psychosocial stress in older adults

The study of ableism in population health: a critical review

Institutional racism and health: A framework for conceptualization, measurement, and analysis

Could differential under‐reporting of loneliness between men and women bias the gender‐specific association between loneliness and memory aging? A quantitative probabilistic …

Federal Food Program Participation and Beverage Intake Among Families With Low Household Income

Methods for mediation analysis with high-dimensional DNA methylation data: Possible choices and comparisons

Experiences of the Flint water crisis among reproductive-Age Michigan women in communities outside of Flint: differences by race and ethnicity

Belinda Needham Information

University

Position

Department of Epidemiology

Citations(all)

6632

Citations(since 2020)

3480

Cited By

4542

hIndex(all)

37

hIndex(since 2020)

33

i10Index(all)

66

i10Index(since 2020)

62

Email

University Profile Page

University of Michigan

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Belinda Needham Skills & Research Interests

health disparities

biosocial interactions

aging and the life course

Top articles of Belinda Needham

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Do Police Encounters Increase the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease? Police Encounters and Framingham 30-Year Cardiovascular Risk Score

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Kristi L Allgood

Nancy L Fleischer

Jeffrey Morenoff

Shervin Assari

Belinda L Needham

2024/2

Epigenome-wide association study of long-term psychosocial stress in older adults

Epigenetics

Lauren A Opsasnick

Wei Zhao

Lauren L Schmitz

Scott M Ratliff

Jessica D Faul

...

2024/12/31

The study of ableism in population health: a critical review

Kara M Mannor

Belinda L Needham

2024/4/17

Institutional racism and health: A framework for conceptualization, measurement, and analysis

Belinda L Needham

Talha Ali

Kristi L Allgood

Annie Ro

Jana L Hirschtick

...

2023/8

Could differential under‐reporting of loneliness between men and women bias the gender‐specific association between loneliness and memory aging? A quantitative probabilistic …

Alzheimer's & Dementia

Xuexin Yu

Laura B Zahodne

Alden L Gross

Belinda L Needham

Kenneth M Langa

...

2023/12

Federal Food Program Participation and Beverage Intake Among Families With Low Household Income

Journal of nutrition education and behavior

Roya Firoozi

Heidi M Weeks

Elizabeth Ludwig-Borcyz

Michelle Clayson

Matt Zawistowski

...

2023/7/1

Methods for mediation analysis with high-dimensional DNA methylation data: Possible choices and comparisons

Dylan Clark-Boucher

Xiang Zhou

Jiacong Du

Yongmei Liu

Belinda L Needham

...

2023/11/7

Experiences of the Flint water crisis among reproductive-Age Michigan women in communities outside of Flint: differences by race and ethnicity

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Sidonie K Kilpatrick

Katherine W Bauer

Nia Heard-Garris

Anita M Malone

Cleopatra M Abdou

...

2023/6

Examining the Relationship Between Multilevel Resilience Resources and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence, Overall and by Psychosocial Risks, Among Participants in the Jackson …

American journal of epidemiology

Jee Won Park

Akilah J Dulin

Matthew M Scarpaci

Laura A Dionne

Belinda L Needham

...

2023/11

A multilevel framework to investigate cardiovascular health disparities among South Asian immigrants in the United States

Namratha R Kandula

Nadia Islam

Belinda L Needham

Naheed Ahmed

Lorna Thorpe

...

2023/5/1

Network Types and Functional Health in Old Age: It is Not Just the Size of the Network That Matters

Journal of Aging and Health

Talha Ali

Michael R Elliott

Toni C Antonucci

Belinda L Needham

Jon Zelner

...

2023/10/20

Did the public attribute the Flint Water Crisis to racism as it was happening? Text analysis of Twitter data to examine causal attributions to racism during a public health crisis

Journal of computational social science

Neslihan Bisgin

Halil Bisgin

Daniel Hummel

Jon Zelner

Belinda L Needham

2023/4

Legislating inequity: structural racism in groups of state laws and associations with premature mortality rates: study examines the combined harmful effects of state laws and …

Health Affairs

Jaquelyn L Jahn

Dougie Zubizarreta

Jarvis T Chen

Belinda L Needham

Goleen Samari

...

2023/10/1

Multidimensional social network types and their correlates in older Americans

Innovation in aging

Talha Ali

Michael R Elliott

Toni C Antonucci

Belinda L Needham

Jon Zelner

...

2022/1/1

Epigenetic mechanisms underlying the association between maternal climate stress and child growth: characterizing severe drought and its impact on a Kenyan community engaging …

Epigenetics

Bilinda Straight

Xi Qiao

Duy Ngo

Charles E Hilton

Charles Owuor Olungah

...

2022/12/9

Vicarious structural racism and infant health disparities in Michigan: The Flint Water Crisis

Frontiers in public health

Kristi L Allgood

Jasmine A Mack

Nicole L Novak

Cleopatra M Abdou

Nancy L Fleischer

...

2022/9/6

Examining relationships between perceived neighborhood social cohesion and ideal cardiovascular health and whether psychosocial stressors modify observed relationships among …

BMC public health

Akilah J Dulin

Jee Won Park

Matthew M Scarpaci

Laura A Dionne

Mario Sims

...

2022/10/11

Multilevel resilience resources and cardiovascular disease in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Jee Won Park

Rachel Mealy

Ian J Saldanha

Eric B Loucks

Belinda L Needham

...

2022/4

Prenatal Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Epigenetic Alterations at Birth Among Children Born to White British and Pakistani Mothers in the Born in Bradford Study

Epigenetics

Amanda M Simanek

Regina Manansala

Jennifer MP Woo

Helen CS Meier

Belinda L Needham

...

2022/12/9

Heavy metal blood concentrations in association with sociocultural characteristics, anthropometry and anemia among Kenyan adolescents

International journal of environmental health research

Jillian Ashley-Martin

Lora Iannotti

Carolyn Lesorogol

Charles E Hilton

Charles Owuor Olungah

...

2022/9/2

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