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Monnat quoted in BuzzFeed article on increase in US life expectancy

"While life expectancy has continued to improve in large highly educated urban hubs, life expectancy declines have been much more pronounced in former industrial cities, much of Appalachia, and in many small towns and cities across America’s heartland," says Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion.

January 30, 2020

See related: Longevity, Rural Issues, United States

Heflin weighs in on cuts to food stamp program in CBS News article

"Given that we are having a real sort of rescaling of mortality in this country as a whole, to think about cutting anything that supports health and an associated reduction of mortality is a real mistake," says Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs.

December 13, 2019

Heflin discusses new SNAP study with Huffington Post, PBS, Common Dreams

Colleen Heflin talks to multiple outlets about her most recent study on the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Mortality, analyzing the restricting access and its success rates.

November 7, 2019

Sociologists Montez and Monnat earn NIH grants

Maxwell School sociology faculty members lead research teams that were recently awarded R24 grants from the National Institute on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health. Jennifer Karas Montez, professor of sociology, is a co-principal investigator, and Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, is a co-investigator on the first of these highly competitive five-year grants.

October 11, 2019

See related: Grant Awards, Longevity, U.S. Health Policy

Monnat article on socioeconomic and opioid supply factors to drug mortality rates published in JRS

Shannon M. Monnat

April 30, 2019

See related: Addiction, Longevity

Monnat quoted in PolitiFact article on Andrew Yang, life expectancy

According to Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, the recent decline in life expectancy "is due almost entirely" to increases in overdoses and suicides. "Although the declines are small, they are unprecedented, and they are signals that there is a serious well-being crisis in the U.S."

April 4, 2019

See related: Addiction, Longevity, Mental Health, United States