Shauna Dyer holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan, where she also earned her master’s degree in sociology. Her research asks how macro-level changes in economic, legal, and social systems shape individual and family economic security, and traces their consequences for socio-economic, gender, and racial/ethnic inequalities. As a Bell Fellow, Dyer will extend this line of research by investigating later life consequences of job quality on health…
Erika Meza
Erika Meza earned a PhD in epidemiology and translational science at the University of California, San Francisco, and an MPH in environmental health sciences at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Meza’s work explores intergenerational education, cognitive function and decline, and risk of dementia for US Latinos. Her interest in socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic health inequities has been a consistent theme throughout her research. As a Bell Fellow, she will seek to…
Jeong Hyun Oh
Jeong Hyun (“Johanna”) Oh holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago, where she also earned an MA in sociology. Her research is focused on how health and economic inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa are informed by demographic processes. She examines how educational expansion alters labor market outcomes among “moderately educated” women and its implications for wealth inequality and diverging family experiences. As a Harvard Mortimer Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellow…
Hayami Koga
Hayami Koga holds a PhD in population health sciences from the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She also holds an MD from the University of Occupational and Environmental Health in Japan. Koga’s doctoral work explored whether psychological well-being, at a population level, is an important asset that contributes to a longer and healthier functioning lifespan. She sought new approaches to…