About
Maria is a joint PhD candidate in Sociology and Health Policy at the University of Michigan, as well as a Social Demography trainee at the U-M Population Studies Center within the Institute for Social Research and a Public Health and Aging trainee at the U-M School of Public Health. She employs methods from demography and social epidemiology to explore, explain, and anticipate the consequences of population health trends at different periods of the life course. Substantively, her research has a strong focus on diet-related chronic conditions, social determinants of health, and immigrant and minority populations.
