Dr. Cubbin is Associate Dean for Research and Professor in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, and Faculty Research Associate at the Population Research Center at UT Austin. Her research focuses on using epidemiological methods to better understand socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequalities in health for the purpose of informing policy. Specific areas of her research include using contextual analysis to investigate how neighborhood environments may explain social inequalities in health, and the measurement of socioeconomic status/position in studies of racial/ethnic disparities in health. Using national and statewide representative data sets, she has studied social inequalities in injuries, cardiovascular disease, health behaviors, mortality, and maternal, infant, and adolescent health. She is principal investigator on a T32 from NHLBI to increase diversity among researchers in behavioral, population, and implementation science who focus on promoting equity in cardiovascular health and its related behaviors. She is also currently investigating the impacts of residential segregation on maternal and infant health in Texas. Dr. Cubbin received her PhD in Health and Social Policy from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1998. Her postgraduate training includes CDC fellowship at the National Center for Health Statistics, NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University (2000), and NIH Health Disparities Scholar (2001-2006). Since 1997, she has been a coordinating committee member of the Spirit of 1848, a caucus of the American Public Health Association which focuses in issues related to health and social justice. She has published widely in public health and medical journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, and American Journal of Epidemiology; Dr. Cubbin’s publications list is available on her PubMed/NCBI bibliography.
