Arline T. Geronimus

Arline T. Geronimus, associate professor in the department of public health policy and administration, and research affiliate at the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, completed a manuscript setting forth her "weathering" thesis--that early childbearing among impoverished African American women may be an adaptive response to the prospect of deteriorating health as they age. She also completed a paper comparing premature adult mortality among white and black populations, which argues that persistently poor African Americans in the urban north are most at risk.