Arline Geronimus

American public health researcher

Arline T. Geronimus is an American public health researcher and a professor of Health Behavior & Health Education at the University of Michigan, as well as a research professor at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center. Geronimus is known for proposing the weathering hypothesis in 1992, which posits that cumulative racism experienced by black women cause them to experience inferior birth outcomes as their maternal age increases.^[1]^[2] She has also studied other issues regarding pregnancy, including the effect of teenage childbearing on the mother's economic status^[3] and the effect of immigration enforcement raids on low birth weight.^[4] Since originating the weathering hypothesis, Geronimus has extended it to implications for health across the life course for men and women in a variety of culturally oppressed, marginalized, or economically exploited social identity groups in the United States. Geronimus' book, "WEATHERING: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society" is being published by Little Brown in March 2023.^{[citation needed]}

Geronimus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics (A.B., 1978) from Princeton University, and a Doctor of Science (Sc.D., 1985) in behavioral sciences from the Harvard University School of Public Health.^[5] She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.^{[citation needed]}

Book

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society, 2023

References

^ Norris, Michele (8 July 2011). "Why Black Women, Infants Lag In Birth Outcomes". NPR. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
^ Epstein, Helen (12 October 2003). "Ghetto Miasma; Enough To Make You Sick?". The New York Times Miasma. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
^ Lewin, Tamar (7 March 1990). "Studies Cause Confusion on Impact of Teen-Age Pregnancy". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
^ Collins, Nathan (2 February 2017). "How Immigration Raids Lead to Lower Birth Weights". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
^ CV for Arline Geronimus at Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, accessed w26 December 2020.