Arline T. Geronimus is an American public health researcher and a professor of Health Behavior & Health Education at the University of Michigan, as well as a research professor at the

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's Population Studies Center. Geronimus is known for proposing the weathering hypothesis in 1992, which posits that cumulative racism experienced by black women cause them to experience inferior birth outcomes as their maternal age increases. She has also studied other issues regarding

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, including the effect of teenage childbearing on the mother's economic status and the effect of immigration enforcement raids on low birth weight. Since originating the weathering hypothesis, Geronimus has extended it to implications for health across the life course for men and women in a variety of culturally oppressed, marginalized, or economically exploited social identity groups in the United States. Geronimus' book, "WEATHERING: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society" was published by Little Brown in March 2023. Geronimus received a

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degree in politics (A.B., 1978) from

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, and a

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(Sc.D., 1985) in behavioral sciences from the

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School of Public Health.CV for Arline Geronimus
at Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, accessed w26 December 2020. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.

Book

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society, 2023

References

External links

Geronimus' faculty page
at the Population Studies Center

at the University of Michigan School of Public Health
Racism's Hidden Toll
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'' article about Geronimus' research
CV for Arline Geronimus
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