Stephanie Robert

About

Professor Stephanie Robert holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Work from the University of Michigan, earned in 1996, along with an MSW from the same institution obtained in 1993, and a BA in Sociology from the University of Vermont completed in 1988. Her research focuses on how social and economic aspects of people's lives influence their health and well-being over the life course. Many of her publications examine how neighborhood context impacts health and contributes to socioeconomic and racial health disparities. She emphasizes viewing social policy as health policy, aiming to improve social policies to maintain health and reduce disparities. Professor Robert is particularly interested in the health and well-being of vulnerable older adults. One of her current projects investigates socioeconomic and racial determinants of older adults’ transitions from community residence into various living environments such as nursing homes and assisted living. Her goal is to inform policies that provide older adults with choices regarding their living situations when facing health or cognitive challenges, ensuring that low-income older adults and older adults of color encounter fewer barriers to high-quality options. Additionally, she is dedicated to increasing mentoring competencies among faculty members, running trainings across the country to help social science and interdisciplinary faculty improve their mentoring skills. She also provides training for doctoral students and…

Research topics

• Cell biology
• Biology
• Computational biology
• Biochemistry
• Neuroscience
• Genetics
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Anatomy

Selected publications

• Changes in public awareness of the social determinants of health over 15 years in Wisconsin, United States

  Preventive Medicine Reports · 2025-01-09 · 5 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  To investigate 15-year changes in public awareness of the social determinants of health (SDoH) between 2007 and 2023. A 2007 survey of 1172 Wisconsin, U.S. adults is compared to a 2023 survey of 1631 Wisconsin adults. In both surveys, respondents were asked to rate 16 factors regarding how strongly each impacts health. Regression analyses examine how demographic factors differentiate responses in both survey years. In both 2007 and 2023, the four most highly rated factors affecting health were:…

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• Getting Rides From Others As a Coping Mechanism in the Transition to Non-Driving

  The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 2024-03-29 · 4 citations

  articleSenior author

  OBJECTIVES: To characterize the effect of the actual and potential ability to get rides from others on older adults' driving reduction at 3-year follow-up in the United States. METHODS: We analyzed National Health and Aging Trends Study data from community-dwelling drivers in 2015 (unweighted n = 5,102). We used weighted logistic regression models to estimate whether getting rides from others in 2015 was associated with older adults increasing the number of driving behaviors they avoided, decrea…

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• Social and Environmental Characteristics Associated With Older Drivers’ Use of Non-driving Transportation Modes

  Journal of Aging and Health · 2024-06-04 · 3 citations

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  Objective: We examined associations between older drivers’ social and environmental characteristics and odds of using non-driving transportation modes. Methods: Using 2015 National Health and Aging Trends Study data for community-dwelling drivers ( n = 5102), we estimated logistic regression models of associations between social characteristics, environmental characteristics, and odds of using non-driving transportation modes three years later. Results: Drivers had 20% increase in odds of gettin…

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• Changes in public awareness of racial, economic, and educational health disparities between 2007 and 2023 among Wisconsin adults

  Preventive Medicine Reports · 2025-07-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  To investigate 15-year changes in public awareness of racial, economic, and educational health disparities between 2007 and 2023. Surveys of Wisconsin, U.S. adults in 2007 and 2023 were compared. Respondents in both surveys were randomized into panels to examine opinions about specific health disparities—Black/White, economic, or educational health disparities. Bivariate and logistic regression analyses examine how demographic factors differentiate awareness of disparities and changes in awarene…

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• The art of interdigitation: Current views on pavement cell shape acquisition

  Epsilon Open Archive (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet biblioteket (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)) · 2026-01-01

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  Cell shape acquisition is a central feature of morphogenesis, governing tissue organization, organ development, and organismal architecture. In vascular plants, leaf epidermal cells often adopt wavy, interlocking geometries, creating intricate jigsaw puzzle-like patterns. These complex shapes, which develop from simple polyhedral progenitors, provide an excellent model for investigating the mechanisms driving cell shape acquisition. Lobed, interdigitated pavement cells contribute to planar leaf…

Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01AG020247

  NIH · $574k · 2007

Frequent coauthors

• Patrick Y. Wen

  225 shared

• David A. Reardon

  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  175 shared

• J. Raizer

  Columbia University

  175 shared

• D. Schiff

  University of Pittsburgh

  125 shared

• Thomas Kaley

  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  125 shared

• Terri S. Armstrong

  Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

  120 shared

• Jiřı́ Friml

  Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  112 shared

• Catherine Abadie

  112 shared

Education

• PhD

  Université Paris-Sud

  2005

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