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Cleopatra Abdou

Associate Professor View bio to learn more about the faculty member's research


2020 Featured Publications:

Abdou, C. M. (2017). Age-based reproductive healthcare stereotype threat as a stressor affecting prenatal mental health in pregnant women of advanced maternal age: Measurement, process, outcomes, and interactions with ethnicity, SES, and other social identities. Current Epidemiology Reports, 4, 133-144.

*Wheaton, F. V., *Thomas, C., *Roman, C., & **Abdou, C. M. (2017). Discrimination and mental health among African American men across the adult lifecourse. Journals of Gerontology, Series B, 73(2), 208-218.

Fingerhut, A. W. & Abdou, C. M. (2017). The role of healthcare stereotype threat and social identity threat in lesbian, gay, and bisexual health disparities. Journal of Social Issues, 73(3), 493-507.

Needham, B., Hicken, M., Mitchell, C., Govia, I. & Abdou, C. M. (2017). Maternal social status and newborn telomere length in archived dried blood spots from the Michigan Neonatal Biobank. Journal of Biodemography and Social Biology, 63(2), 221-235.

Mezuk, B., Ratliff, S., Concha, J. B., Abdou, C. M., Rafferty, J., Lee, H., & Jackson, J. S. (2017). Stress, self-regulation, and context: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. Social Science & Medicine, 3, 455-463.