Professor
Department of Sociology The Ohio State University |
Hui Zheng is a demographer, social epidemiologist, and quantitative social scientist.
His research focuses on understanding the causes, heterogeneity, inequality, and trends of population health and aging. It encompasses two interconnected areas: social and policy determinants of health, and population process of aging and mortality. He has investigated health consequences of various social structures, institutions, and policies; the trends of socioeconomic and demographic disparities in health; trend and heterogeneity in aging, mortality, and life span; the impact of life course dynamics of obesity on mortality; and the role of selection in health production and aging process. Methodologically, he is interested in developing and evaluating statistical and demographic methods to investigate the interplay of social-epidemiological changes, population dynamics and population heterogeneity on the trends and disparities in health, mortality and life expectancy. Current projects investigate the rising health challenges in the U.S.; determinants and consequences of cognitive aging across the life course; nativity disparities in labor market, aging, and health. His work is supported by grants from CDC (National Center for Health Statistics) and NIH (NIA, NICHD), covered by major media outlets including Time, New York Times, The Atlantic, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Times (UK), and granted Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award Honorable Mention (2019) from ASA Medical Sociology Section. He was a consulting editor at American Journal of Sociology, served in the editorial boards of Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Journal of Marriage and Family, and was a council member of medical sociology section of American Sociological Association. He is currently an advisory editor of Social Science Research. News and updates02-2023: Interviewed by NBC News on “Education may be the best way to protect against cognitive decline, new research suggests.”
01-2023: Gave a virtual talk at The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences. 12-2022: Gave a virtual talk at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Social Science. 11-2022: My paper with Vincent Roscigno and Martha Crowley on workplace age discrimination and its social-psychological costs was published in Society and Mental Health. 10-2022: Had a great visit to Penn, where I gave a talk at the Population Studies Center seminar. 10-2022: My paper with Wei-hsin Yu on immigrants' persistent mortality advantages was published in Demography. 09-2022: My paper with Wei-hsin Yu on immigrants' survival advantage after unemployment and the racial and gender heterogeneity therein was published in a special issue of Journal of Social Issues: Well-being of Migrants and Immigrants: Perspectives in Asia and from Asians in North America. 06-2022: Gave a virtual talk at my alma mater, Renmin University of China. 05-2022: Was promoted to the rank of Professor. 05-2022: My research on the long-lasting impact of exposure to rising income inequality during childhood on declining Americans' health was reported in The Hill. 05-2022: "Rising childhood income inequality and declining Americans’ health" was published in Social Science & Medicine. |