Grace Noppert, PhD
She/Her
Research Assistant Professor
Institute for Social Research
I am a social and infectious disease epidemiologist at the Institute for Social Research. My research agenda bridges the biological and the social in an effort to elucidate the mechanisms through which the social environment impacts an individual’s biology. Specifically, I focus on herpesvirus infections and T cell immunosenescence to understand how the social environment impacts aging processes in the immune compartment.
Projects:
Viral burden and T cell immunosenescence
Research Area(s)
Biomarkers | Development and Aging | Epidemiology | Health disparities | Social Determinants of Health
Publications
- Individual- and neighborhood-level contextual factors are associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission: genotypic clustering of cases in Michigan, 2004–2012
- Race and nativity are major determinants of tuberculosis in the U.S.: evidence of health disparities in tuberculosis incidence in Michigan, 2004-2012
- Contextualizing tuberculosis risk in time and space: comparing time-restricted genotypic case clusters and geospatial clusters to evaluate the relative contribution of recent transmission to incidence of TB using nine years of case data from Michigan, USA
Grants
- Principal investigator of: Social Disadvantage and Its Impact on Pathogen Burden and Immune Dysfunction Across the Life Course
- Principal investigator of: Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America
- Principal investigator of: Immunosenescence, socioeconomic disadvantage and dementia in the US aging population