Evaluating Methods for Mapping Historical Redlining to Census Tracts for Health Equity Research.
De Los Santos H, Bezold CP, Jiang KM, Chen JT, Okechukwu CA.
J Urban Health. 2024 Apr. 101(2):392-401. PMID: 38519804
Adjunct Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Okechukwu investigates how work environments influence the health and cancer prevention behaviors of vulnerable populations. She focuses on the working class, immigrant communities, and women who earn low wages. She also has an interest in global tobacco control, especially as it relates to tobacco industry practices in African countries.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Observational studies: Using social epidemiologic lens, Dr. Okechukwu is using the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey to investigate the contribution of macroeconomic trends, tobacco control policies, work organization and household factors to smoking among the working class.
Intervention studies: Dr. Okechukwu is a member of the multidisciplinary Work, Family and Health Network. She is evaluating the impact of a randomized controlled work-family intervention, which focuses on direct care employees in 30 nursing homes, on the health of nursing home residents. The team is based at eight different institutions and is sponsored by multiple institutes at the NIH.
Dr. Okechukwu is also heading a NIOSH Workplace Injustice white paper team. They will present their findings at the First National Conference on Eliminating Health and Safety Disparities at Work, which is sponsored by the National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
De Los Santos H, Bezold CP, Jiang KM, Chen JT, Okechukwu CA.
J Urban Health. 2024 Apr. 101(2):392-401. PMID: 38519804
Agudile EP, Okechukwu CA, Subramanian SV, Langer A, Geller AC.
Afr J Reprod Health. 2020 Mar. 24(1):35-52. PMID: 32358936
Barnett EY, Ridker PM, Okechukwu CA, Gortmaker SL.
Health Promot Int. 2019 Feb 01. 34(1):144-153. PMID: 29040574
Kim JH, Lee N, Kim JY, Kim SJ, Okechukwu C, Kim SS.
J Occup Health. 2019 Jan. 61(1):101-109. PMID: 30698342
Okechukwu CA, Molino J, Soh Y.
J Occup Environ Med. 2019 01. 61(1):21-28. PMID: 30256305
Peters SE, Grant MP, Rodgers J, Manjourides J, Okechukwu CA, Dennerlein JT.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 10 25. 15(11). PMID: 30366387
Sokol NA, Okechukwu CA, Chen JT, Subramanian SV, Rees VW.
Am J Prev Med. 2018 11. 55(5):592-602. PMID: 30262151
Lee RM, Giles CM, Cradock AL, Emmons KM, Okechukwu C, Kenney EL, Thayer J, Gortmaker SL.
J Acad Nutr Diet. 2018 08. 118(8):1425-1437. PMID: 30055710
DePasquale N, Mogle J, Zarit SH, Okechukwu C, Kossek EE, Almeida DM.
Gerontologist. 2018 05 08. 58(3):546-555. PMID: 28074001
Sorensen G, Sparer E, Williams JAR, Gundersen D, Boden LI, Dennerlein JT, Hashimoto D, Katz JN, McLellan DL, Okechukwu CA, Pronk NP, Revette A, Wagner GR.
J Occup Environ Med. 2018 05. 60(5):430-439. PMID: 29389812
Cassandra Okechukwu, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, studies how different environments—such as our homes and our workplaces—shape our health.
Cassandra Okechukwu, ScD ’08, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has received several awards for her research on work-family issues. The American Public Health Association’s Aging…
Working long hours appears to drive people to drink more alcohol, according to an international study published January 13, 2015 in the journal BMJ (British Medical Journal). Scientists studied data on more than 430,000 people in 14 countries.…
March 22, 2013 — Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) helped welcome more than 750 reporters, editors, and news producers to Boston for the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference, held March 14-17, 2013. HSPH co-sponsored the…
Coverage in Huffington Post featuring HSPH's Cassandra Okechukwu, September 4, 2012