Cynthia G. Colen

Cynthia G. Colen studies social and racial disparities in health, examining how factors like parental incarceration, skin color, and the experience of time itself shape health and well-being outcomes, particularly among Black Americans. Her work sits at the intersection of sociology, public health, and social policy, drawing on population-level data to understand how social structures produce unequal health outcomes.

Publication output has been relatively steady but modest over the last decade, with a peak in 2020 and a consistent low-to-moderate pace of one to three papers per year in most other years.

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