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Name		Kathleen A. Cagney, Ph.D.

Department of Primary Appointment:

Health Studies

Secondary appointments:

Comparative Human Development

Proposed rank:

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Proposed track:

RESEARCH SCHOLAR (TENURE)

DEPARTMENT: What is the candidate's field or specialization?

Health services research

LAY SUMMARY:

Dr. Cagney’s primary contributions lies in her elaboration and application of sociological theory to research in health, with particular emphasis on explaining disparities in health-care utilization and health outcomes between otherwise similarly situated groups. She has made several important advances in this arena.

First, she has demonstrated how differences in the timing of life-course events, particularly childbirth, account for substantial disparities between African Americans and whites in use of long-term care. Fourth, she was the first to test the “sandwich generation” hypothesis as it relates to long-term care; she found that the timing of parenthood matters for the timing of home health use but does so differently for Blacks and Whites. Second, she has shown how the ecology of urban environments affects the prevalence of disease (most importantly, asthma), independent of individual-level factors. Third, she has provided an explanation for the “Latino paradox,”which is that foreign-born Latinos have lower asthma rates than later-generation Latinos, showing that this effect holds only for those who live in tightly-knit ethnic enclaves. Fifth, she showed that neighborhood structure affects the perceptions of health, despite similar objective levels of health, and that this accounts for some of the differences between blacks and whites in self-rated health. Most recently, she has shown that neighborhood characteristics such as commercial decline accounted for much of the variability in death rates during the 1995 Chicago heat wave, even after accounting for factors such as age, race, and gender.

Dr. Cagney’s courses bring together students from health studies, medicine, sociology, public policy, and social service administration. They study demographic and life course principles of aging research and they learn to design and evaluate their own surveys. Her work as Assistant Director of the NRSA AHRQ pre-doctoral training program and as Co-Director of the Neighborhood and Disparities Core of the Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics has created research and training opportunities for students who are interested in the intersection between social science and medicine.

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

2002 Brookdale National Leadership in Aging Program Fellowship Finalist

1998 NIA Technical Assistance Workshop Presentation Award

EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor, Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

NIH Review Panel, HOP J 90 (formally SNEM 1), Non-Intervention Community-level Health Promotion, February 2004

NIH Review Panel, RFA-OB_03_001 Special Emphasis Panel, Pathways Linking Education to Health, July 2003

Academy Health (Member)

American Sociological Association (Member)

Gerontological Society of America (Member)

Population Association of America (Member)

American Journal of Public Health (Reviewer)

American Journal of Sociology (Reviewer)

Journal of General Internal Medicine (Reviewer)

Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Reviewer)

Journal of Health and Social Behavior (Reviewer)

Medical Care (Reviewer)

Quality of Life Research (Reviewer)

Social Science and Medicine (Reviewer)

Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy (Abstract Reviewer, 2001 Annual Meeting)

RAND Summer Institute in Demography, Economics and Epidemiology of Aging (1996, 1998)

RAND Mini-medical School for Demographers and Economists (1998)

NIA and Office of Research on Minority Health Technical Assistance Workshop

on Aging Research (1998)

PRESENTATIONS

INVITATIONS AS A RESULT OF PEER-REVIEWED COMPETITION

Cagney KA. “Tay-Sachs Screening in New York City.” Boston College Bioethics Conference, May, 1985.

Andersen RA, Cagney KA, Chen MS, Little C. “The International Collaborative Study of Oral Health Outcomes: Preliminary Results from New Zealand.” American Public Health Association, November, 1990.

Cagney KA, Kerner JF, Mandelblatt J, Freeman HP. “Cancer Screening in a Public Hospital Emergency Room.” American Public Health Association, November, 1992.

Cagney KA, Kerner JF, Mandelblatt J, Freeman HP. “Cancer Control Needs in Multi-Cultural Communities.” American Public Health Association, November, 1992.

Cagney KA, Wu AW, Herbert RJ, Meyer KB, Jenckes MW, Bass EB, Powe NR. “Formal Assessment of Quality of Life Instruments for End-stage Renal Disease.” Society for Medical Decision Making, October, 1995.

Cagney KA, Powe NR, Wu AW, Herbert RJ, Fink NE, Jenckes MW, Meyer KB. “Race and Gender Differences in Importance Ratings of Quality of Life Domains by Patients with End-stage Renal Disease.” Society for Medical Decision Making, October, 1995.

Kasper JD, Cagney KA. “The Consumer Perspective: Views of Older Disabled Women and Those Who Care for Them.” American Public Health Association, November, 1996.

Cagney KA, Agree EM. “Race, Social Class and Family Structure: Determinants of Long-term Care Arrangements.” Population Association of America, March, 1998.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in the Risk of First Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Care.” National Institute on Aging/Office of Research on Minority Health Technical Assistance Workshop, June, 1998.

Cagney KA, Lauderdale DS. “Education and Cognition in Later Life: Is Education a Proxy for Socioeconomic Status?” Population Association of America, New York, NY, March, 1999.

Lauderdale DS, Cagney KA. “Limitations to the Use of Education as an SES Indicator in Studies of the Elderly: Confounding by Cognition.” New York Academy of Sciences Conference – Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrialized Nations: Social, Psychological and Biological Pathways, Washington, DC, June, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Racial Differences in Post-Hospital Care: The Impact of Medical Treatment Regimes.” Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA, November, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Development of Nursing Home Quality Indicators: Accounting For Resident-Level Factors.” Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, November, 2000.

Cagney KA, Lauderdale DS. “Cognitive Change in Later Life: the Effects of Education and Wealth.” Population Association of America, Washington, DC, March, 2001.

Browning CR, Cagney KA. “Neighborhood Social Organization and Self-rated Health: a Multilevel Analysis.” Population Association of America, Washington, DC, March, 2001.

Merrell K, Lawlor EF, Cagney KA, Langa K, Willis R. “Medicare Beneficiaries as Health Plan Consumers: a Framework. Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, Atlanta, GA, June, 2001.

Cagney KA, Browning CR, Wen M. “Race and Self-rated Health at older Ages: What Difference Does the Neighborhood Make?” Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, IL, November, 2001.

Cagney KA, Agree EM, Astone NM. “Racial Differences in Formal Long-term Care: Does the Timing of Parenthood Play a Role?” Population Association of America, May, Atlanta, GA, 2002.

Wen M, Browning CR, Cagney KA. “Neighborhood Economic Context and Self-rated Health: A Multilevel Study in the City of Chicago.” American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2002.

Cagney KA, Cornman JC, Freedman VA, Agree EM, Cohen MA, Miller J. “The Impact of Assistive Device Use on Caregiver Burden.” Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA, November, 2002.

Cagney KA, Browning CR. “Health and Neighborhood Context: The Reciprocal Relationship between Social Organization and Aggregate Health Status.” Population Association of America, Minneapolis, MN, May, 2003.

Cagney KA. “Neighborhood Social Capital and Health.” Chicago Health Services Research Consortium, May, 2003.

Cagney KA, Browning CR. “Understanding Disparities in Asthma Prevalence: Health Services Research at the Neighborhood Level.” Academy Health, Nashville, TN, June, 2003.

*Wen M, Cagney KA, Christakis NA. “Community Effects on the Progression of Diseases: A Survival analysis for Seriously Ill Older People.” American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August, 2003.

Cagney KA, Browning CR, Wen M. “Community Context and the Health of Older Residents:  Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship.” Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA, November, 2003.

Browning CR, Wallace DM, Feinberg S, Cagney KA. “Neighborhood Social Processes and Disaster-related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave.” Population Association of America, Boston, MA, April, 2004. 

Cagney KA, Browning, CR, Wallace, DM. “Explaining the Latino Asthma Advantage: The Role of Neighborhood Social Context.” Population Association of America, Philadelphia, PA, April, 2005.

Cagney KA, Browning, CR, Wallace, DM. “Explaining the Latino Asthma Advantage: The Role of Neighborhood Social Context.” International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden, July, 2005.

Cagney KA, Browning, CR, Wallace, DM. “Explaining the Latino Asthma Advantage: The Role of Neighborhood Social Context.” American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August, 2005.

Cagney KA, Mendes de Leon CF, Glass TA. “Measures of Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Disorder: Development and Validation in an Older Adult Population.” Gerontological Society of America, Orlando FL, November, 2005.

Cagney KA, Wallace DM, Browning CR. “Interracial Unease in an Urban Setting: The Influence of Neighborhood Social Context.” Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2006.

Cagney KA, Wallace DM, Browning CR. “Interracial Unease in an Urban Setting: The Influence of Neighborhood Social Context.” American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August, 2006.

Cagney KA. “Social Interaction and Interracial Unease.” Fifth International Conference on Urban Health. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October, 2006.

Cagney KA. “Age and the Social Context of Interracial Unease.” Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX, November, 2006.

INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Social Class Play a Role?” Institute for Health Care Research, Case Western Reserve University, November, 1998.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Social Class Play a Role?” Division of General Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, December, 1998.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Social Class Play a Role?” Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, January, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Social Class Play a Role?” Department of Health Policy and Management, Emory University, February, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Social Class Play a Role?” Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, February, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Social Class Play a Role?” Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, December, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Family Organization, Intergenerational Transfers and Family Outcomes.” Discussant, Population Association of America, March, 1998.

Cagney KA. “Care for the Elderly.” A panel discussion for Odyssey, WBEZ-FM, Chicago Public Radio. August 25, 2000.

Cagney KA. Testimony to the Cook County Commission on Women’s Issues for the public hearing “The Challenges of Elder Caregiving: A Women’s Issue.” Chicago, IL, September 21, 2000.

Cagney KA. “Development of Nursing Home Quality Indicators: Accounting For Resident-Level Factors.” Population Health Program and Wisconsin Network for Health Policy Research Joint Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October, 2000.

Cagney KA. “Nursing Home Quality Assessment: Incorporating Resident-Level Indicators and Preferences to Enhance Quality Measures.” Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, February, 2001.

Cagney KA. “Racial and Socioeconomic Status Differences in Post-hospital Care Arrangements and Informal Care Networks.” National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Workshop. Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, May, 2001.

Cagney KA, Lauderdale DS. “Cognitive Change in Later Life: the Effects of Education and Wealth.” Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, December, 2001.

Cagney KA, Browning CR. “Neighborhood Structure, Social Organization, and Health: Exploring the Relationship Between Community Context and Self-rated Health.” Initiative in Population Research, The Ohio State University, May, 2002.

Cagney KA, Browning CR. “Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship between Neighborhood Social Organization and Health: Chicago in the 1990s.” Division of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, December, 2002.

Cagney KA. “The Impact of Assistive Device Use on Caregiver Burden.” Home-Based Health Services Conference, MISYS Healthcare Systems, ACI, Inc., Chicago, IL, June, 2003.

Cagney KA. “Family and Kinship: Social Ties and the Nature of Family Functioning.” Discussant, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August, 2003.

Cagney KA. “Neighborhood Inequality and the Spatial Determinants of Health.” Disparities and Discrimination in Health Care and Health Outcomes, University of Chicago, November, 2003.

Cagney KA. “Community Context and the Health of Older Residents: Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship.” Health Services Research and Policy Seminar, Northwestern University, December, 2003.

Cagney KA, Browning, CR, Wallace, DM. “Social Disorder, Social Isolation, and the Neighborhood Context of Mid- and Later Life.” Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, March, 2004.

Cagney KA, Browning, CR, Wallace, DM. “Neighborhood Social Organization, Aging, and Health.” Health and Retirement Study (HRS) Health and Aging Seminar, University of Michigan, March, 2004.

Cagney, KA. “Community-Based Participatory Research: Guides for Authors and Users.” Panel member, Society of General Internal Medicine, Chicago, May, 2004.

Cagney KA, Browning CR, Wallace DM. “Explaining the Latino Asthma Advantage: The Role of Neighborhood Social Context.” University of Illinois at Chicago, Seminar in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, October, 2004.

Cagney KA, Browning CR, Wallace DM. “Explaining the Latino Asthma Advantage: The Role of Neighborhood Social Context.” Chicago Asthma Consortium, November, 2004.

Cagney KA, Agree EA. “Racial Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health: The Mediating Effects of Social Class, Family Structure, and the Timing of Life Course Events.” National Long-term Care Survey Spotlight on Research Conference. Washington, D.C., November, 2004.

Cagney KA, Browning CR, Wallace DM. “Explaining the Latino Asthma Advantage: The Role of Neighborhood Social Context” Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, March, 2005.

Browning CR, Cagney KA. “Neighborhood Social Processes and Disaster-related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave.” Department of Sociology, University of Utah, April, 2005.

Cagney KA. “Racial Differences in Self-rated Health at Older Ages: What Difference Does the Neighborhood Make?” Advanced Methods for Estimating Health Disparities, International Conference for Health Policy Research, Boston, MA, October, 2005.

Cagney KA. “Neighborhood Social Processes, Physical Conditions, and Disaster-related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave.” Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, January, 2006.

Other Lectures

Andersen RA, Chen MS, Little C, Cagney KA. “Causes and Correlates of Oral Health Status: Preliminary Results from the International Collaborative Study II.” The University of Chicago Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) Workshop, 1991.

Andersen RA, Chen MS, Little C, Cagney KA. “Causes and Correlates of Oral Health Status: Preliminary Results from the International Collaborative Study II.” Northwestern University Health Services Research Workshop, 1991.

Cagney KA. “Conducting a Quality of Life Literature Review for End-stage Renal Disease.” Presentation to the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars, Johns Hopkins University, 1996.

Cagney KA. “Working with Secondary Data: the National Long-term Care Surveys.” Guest Lecturer for the course Health Issues for Aging Populations, Johns Hopkins University, 1996, 1997.

Cagney KA. “The Risk of Skilled Nursing (SNF) Care and Medicare Home Health Use: The Effects of Race and Family Structure.” Outcomes Research Group Workshop, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, 1998.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in the Risk of Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Financial Resources Play a Role?” Demography Workshop, University of Chicago, 1998.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Social Class Play a Role?” School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, January, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Race Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: Do Family Structure and Social Class Play a Role?” Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, February, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Racial Differences in Long-Term Care: The Link Between Medical Care and Skilled Nursing Care.” Health Economics/CHAS Workshop, University of Chicago, October, 1999.

Cagney KA. “Development of Nursing Home Quality Indicators: Accounting For Resident-Level Factors.” Department of Health Studies Seminar Series, University of Chicago, November, 2000.

Cagney KA. “Development of Nursing Home Quality Indicators: Accounting For Resident-Level Factors.” Department of Geriatrics Seminar Series, University of Chicago, March, 2001.

Cagney KA. “Medicare Beneficiaries and Medicare+Choice: Who’s at Risk for a “+/-“ Choice?” Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Workshop, University of Chicago, February, 2001.

Merrell K, Cagney KA. “The Elderly as Consumers in the Health Insurance Market.” University of Chicago Health Economics/CHAS Worshop, University of Chicago, June, 2001.

Cagney KA, Browning CR. “Racial Differences in Self-Rated Health at Older Ages: The Role of Neighborhood Context.” Department of Health Studies Seminar Series, University of Chicago, January, 2002.

Browning CR, Cagney KA. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, Social Organization and Health.” Demography Workshop, University of Chicago, February, 2002.

Cagney KA, Browning CR. “Moving Beyond Poverty: Neighborhood Structure, Social Processes and Health.” Faculty Workshop on Medicine and the Social Sciences: Disparities and Discrimination in Health Care and Health, University of Chicago, February, 2003.

Cagney KA, Browning CR, Wallace DM. “Social Disorder, Social Isolation, and the Neighborhood Context of Mid- and Later Life.” Alfred P. Sloan Center for Parents, Children, and Work, University of Chicago, February, 2004.

Cagney KA. “Racial Differences in Long-term Care: A Life Course Perspective.” Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, January, 2005.

Cagney KA, Browning CR, Wallace DM. “Explaining the Latino Asthma Advantage: The Role of Neighborhood Social Context” Health Economics Workshop, University of Chicago, October, 2004.

Cagney KA, Wallace DM, Browning CR. “Interracial Unease in an Urban Setting: The Influence of Neighborhood Social Context. Demography Workshop, November, 2005.

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