Kyriakos Markides Ph.D., and the "Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox", a study of aging and health

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The Skin You're In

Partners for Advancing H.E.

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Black Americans and other people of color tend to live sicker and die younger than white Americans. Why is this happening? The Skin You’re In Podcast investigates this disturbing phenomenon. We talk to leading health experts about the issues and potential solutions, and we hear from individuals about their firsthand experiences of injustice and its effects on their lives and their communities. Hosted by Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a national health equity learning collaborative led by Tulane. Dr. LaVeist is also Executive Producer and Writer of the groundbreaking docu-series, “The Skin You’re In”. The Skin You’re In Podcast is produced by Partners for Advancing Health Equity, led by Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and is part of the Tulane Institute for Health Equity. Partners for Advancing Health Equity is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

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Kyriakos Markides Ph.D., and the "Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox", a study of aging and health

The Skin You're In

1 hour 4 minutes

2 years ago

Kyriakos Markides Ph.D., and the "Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox", a study of aging and health

In this episode, we speak with Kyriakos (Kokos) Markides, PhD, the Annie and John Gnitzinger Distinguished Professor of Aging and Professor at the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and Editor of the Journal of Aging and Health. We discuss his immigration to the United States from Cyprus as a child, and how his life journey led him to the study of aging and health issues in the Mexican American population as well as his development of the hypothesis, the “Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox.”

Full bio: https://www.utmb.edu/spph/kyriakos-s-markides-phd

Article and Paper discussed in this episode:

The Health of Hispanics in the Southwestern United States: an Epidemiologic Paradox KYRIAKOS S.
MARKIDES, PhD, JEANNINE COREIL, PhD , Public Health Reports, May-June 1986, Vol 101

The Healthy Immigrant Effect and Aging in the United States and Other Western Countries Kyriakos S.
Markides, PhD and Sunshine Rote, The Gerontological Society of America 2018

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