Diane S. Lauderdale is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences. She is an epidemiologist whose research examines how behavioral and social factors influence health. Recent work has focused on sleep as a behavioral risk factor. This work includes studies of how people’s perceptions of sleep duration and disruption are related to objective sleep measures, studies of how social factors such as social connectedness and loneliness relate to sleep, and studies of how both sleep perceptions and objective measures are associated with health outcomes, including coronary artery disease, obesity, mortality, cortisol levels, and sensory perception. She found marked racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in objective sleep duration and disruption among middle aged adults and demonstrated that self-reported sleep duration is systematically biased relative to objective measures. She has also carried out a series of studies about the health of immigrants to the United States. These includes studies of mortality, pre-immigration influence on late-life health, ethnic enclave variation in health behaviors, and discrimination effects on health. In this area, she demonstrated that Arab American women who gave birth in the months following 9/11, a period of unprecedented violence and discrimination for this group, had worse birth outcomes than similar women giving birth a year earlier, a difference not seen for other racial and ethnic groups. This study provided new evidence of stress effects on birth outcomes. She directs the University of Chicago's new MPH program and also the MS for Clinical Professionals (MSCP) in Public Health Sciences, a degree program that prepares clinicians to carry out research in clinical epidemiology and health services research.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
PhD - Epidemiology/Public Health
1996
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
MALS - Library Science
1981
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
MADiv - Divinity
1978
Harvard
Cambridge, MA
BA - Religion
1977
Stress, Isolation, and Sleep Quality among Breast Cancer Survivors throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort.
Stress, Isolation, and Sleep Quality among Breast Cancer Survivors throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort. Res Sq. 2023 Aug 10.
PMID: 37609132
Machine learning with multimodal data for COVID-19.
Machine learning with multimodal data for COVID-19. Heliyon. 2023 Jul; 9(7):e17934.
PMID: 37483733
Did Resilience and Socioeconomic Status Predict Older Adults' Finding a Silver Lining in COVID?
Did Resilience and Socioeconomic Status Predict Older Adults' Finding a Silver Lining in COVID? Innov Aging. 2023; 7(6):igad058.
PMID: 37719663
HepCCATT: a multilevel intervention for hepatitis C among vulnerable populations in Chicago.
HepCCATT: a multilevel intervention for hepatitis C among vulnerable populations in Chicago. J Public Health (Oxf). 2022 12 01; 44(4):891-899.
PMID: 34156077
The social vulnerability metric (SVM) as a new tool for public health.
The social vulnerability metric (SVM) as a new tool for public health. Health Serv Res. 2023 08; 58(4):873-881.
PMID: 36401593
Contributions of Social Factors to Disparities in Prostate Cancer Risk Profiles among Black Men and Non-Hispanic White Men with Prostate Cancer in California.
Contributions of Social Factors to Disparities in Prostate Cancer Risk Profiles among Black Men and Non-Hispanic White Men with Prostate Cancer in California. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 02; 31(2):404-412.
PMID: 34853020
Invited Commentary: The Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting-Room to Improve Gender Equity.
Invited Commentary: The Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting-Room to Improve Gender Equity. Am J Epidemiol. 2021 09 01; 190(9):1724-1726.
PMID: 34467405
HepCCATT: a multilevel intervention for hepatitis C among vulnerable populations in Chicago.
Tilmon S, Aronsohn A, Boodram B, Canary L, Goel S, Hamlish T, Kemble S, Lauderdale DS, Layden J, Lee K, Millman AJ, Nelson N, Ritger K, Rodriguez I, Shurupova N, Wolf J, Johnson D. HepCCATT: a multilevel intervention for hepatitis C among vulnerable populations in Chicago. J Public Health (Oxf). 2021 Jun 22.
PMID: 34156077
Effect of a narrative intervention on individual-level abortion stigma: a randomised controlled trial.
Effect of a narrative intervention on individual-level abortion stigma: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Sex Reprod Health. 2022 Jan; 48(1):47-53.
PMID: 34108187
U.S. trends in elective and emergent major abdominal surgical procedures from 2002 to 2014 in older adults.
U.S. trends in elective and emergent major abdominal surgical procedures from 2002 to 2014 in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 08; 69(8):2220-2230.
PMID: 33969889
Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago
2023
Louis Block Professor of Public Health Sciences and the College
University of Chicago
2020
BSD Faculty Award for Distinguished Educator/Mentor
University of Chicago
2018
Elected membership American Epidemiological Society
2016
President, Society for Epidemiologic Research
2015 - 2016
Fellow, American College of Epidemiology
2006