Miriam Mutambudzi

• 2025 Fall
  • PHP 664 Health Equity & Social Determinants of Health
  • PHP 417/617 Indigenous Peoples, Colonization, and Global Health
• 2025 Spring
  • PHP 416/616 Global Health and Aging
• 2024 Fall
  • PHP 309 Health Disparities and Underserved Populations
  • PHP 417/617 Indigenous Peoples, Colonization, and Global Health
• 2024 Spring
  • PHP 309 Health Disparities and Underserved Populations
  • PHP 499 Honors Capstone Project
  • PHP 400/600 Selected Topics - Global Health and Aging

Miriam Mutambudzi in an assistant professor in the Public Health Department, and research affiliate in the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS), the Aging Studies Institute, and the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health at Syracuse University.

Mutambudzi’s research is focused on three main subpopulations in the U.S, U.K. and Europe: older adults, the workforce and vulnerable groups (race/ethnic minorities, immigrants, refugees). She uses longitudinal data to assess how social and structural determinants of health impact onset and progression of chronic diseases, functional and cognitive health, work-related health outcomes, and mortality across the life course.

Mutambudzi serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Aging and Health and the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. She and her co-authors were the 2020 recipients of the Kammer Emmett Award from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) which recognizes “the author(s) of the most outstanding article published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental M (JOEM) during a recent past year” (available here). She was also selected as a NIH National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) 2021 Health Disparities Institute Scholar.

"Cumulative Effects of Pre-recession and the Great Recession Precarity on Black-White Disparities in Health Biomarker Trajectories and All-cause Mortality Among Older Workers", Sponsored by Department of Health & Human Services.

"Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Thought Leadership Partnership with Syracuse University's Lender Center", Sponsored by MetLife Foundation.

"Biological Age and Chronic Health Trajectories: Moderation by Perceived Discrimination", Sponsored by National Institute on Aging.

"Center for Aging and Policy Studies", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health.

"The Causes and Consequences of Retirement: A Sociological Perspective", Sponsored by Network for Studies on Pension, Aging, and Retirement (Netspar Netherlands).

• Journal Articles
  • Mutambudzi, M. S., "Chronic Work Discrimination, Allostatic Load, and HbA1c in Older Workers." The Gerontologist, 2025.
  • Mutambudzi, M. S., Brown, M. T. and Chen, N., "Association of epigenetic age and everyday discrimination with longitudinal trajectories of chronic health conditions in older adults." The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences & Medical Sciences, 2024.
  • Brown, M. T., Mutambudzi, M. S., "Psychiatric history and later-life cognitive change: effect modification by sex, race and ethnicity." Aging & Mental Health, 2023.
  • Mutambudzi, M. S., Henekens, K., "Effects of Prevalent and Newly Diagnosed Arthritis on Changes in Perceived Physical Demands and Work Stress Among Older Workers: Results of a 3 Year Panel Study." Journal of Aging and Health, 2022.
  • Brown, M. T., Mutambudzi, M. S., "Risk of Nursing Home Use among Older Americans: The Impact of Psychiatric History and Trajectories of Cognitive Function." The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 2022.
  • Chen, N., Mutambudzi, M. S. and Markides, K. S., "Trajectories of concurrent depressive symptoms and cognitive functioning in older Mexican Americans." Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2022.
  • Mutambudzi, M. S., Flowers, P. and Demou, E., "Association of Perceived Job Security and Chronic Health Conditions with Retirement in Older UK and U.S Workers." European Journal of Public Health, 2022.
  • Mutambudzi, M. S., Niedzwiedz, C. L., Macdonald, E. B., Leyland, A. H., Mair, F. S., Anderson, J. J., Celis-Morales, C., Cleland, J., Forbes, J., Gill, J., Hastie, C., Ho, F., J, B., Mackay, D. F., Nicholl, B., O'Donnell, C., Sattar, N., Welsh, P., Pell, J. P., Vittal Katikireddi, S. and Demou, E., "Occupation and risk of COVID-19: prospective cohort study of 120,075 UK Biobank participants." Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2021.
  • Mutambudzi, M. S., van Solinge, H., "Impact of Retirement on Sleep Problems Among Older Workers and Their Partners." Gerontologist, 2021.
• Book Chapter
  • Mutambudzi, M. S., Vanajan, A., "Job intensity: evidence from middle and low income countries." In Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences. Handbook of Socioeconomic Determinants of Occupational Health. Theorell, T. (ed.) Springer, Cham, 2020.
• Manuscripts
  • Sous, W., Sharma, A., Shaw, A. V., Heckel, A., Heffernan, K. S. and Mutambudzi, M. S., "A Pilot Study Exploring Biobehavioral, Psychosocial, and Demographic Factors Associated With Central Blood Pressure in Resettled Refugees in Syracuse, New York." American Journal of Human Biology.
  • Mutambudzi, M. S., Sharma, A., Shaw, A. V. and Heffernan, K. S., "The Association of Socio-demographic and Mental Health Factors with Obesity in Resettled Refugees in Syracuse, New York." In Ethnicity and Disease. , 2025.
  • Brown, M. T., Mutambudzi, M. S., "Relationship between Functional Limitations, Accelerated Biological Aging, Race, and Perceived Discrimination." Int J Geriatr Gerontol.
• Research Brief
  • Helander, M., Appiah, B. and Mutambudzi, M. S., Stroke: Identifying Symptoms and Acting Fast to Save Lives and Prevent Permanent Disabilities. Lerner/CAPS Research Brief #47, 2021.

Mutambudzi, M. S., Demou, E., British Society of Gerontology 54th Annual Conference, "Cumulative material hardship and changes in depressive symptoms among older adults during economic hard time" (2025)

Kromydas, T., Bhaskar, A., Katikireddi, S., Niedzwiedz, C., Mutambudzi, M. S., Demou, E., Creating Sustainable Work, Karolinska Institutet , "Employment histories and health: Understanding the impacts of the changing nature of working life. " (2025)

8th International Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Diseases (ICOH-CVD ). , "Mutambudzi, M. Job Insecurity and Changes in Blood Pressure Among Older Adults: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk. " (2025)

Friedman, S., Wilmoth, J. M., Mutambudzi, M. S., Li, R., Lee, J., Population Association of America Annual Meeting, " Redlining policy and later-life mortality: An analysis of the linked HRS-1940 census data" (2025)

Gerontological Society of America 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, "Work precarity, the Great Recession, and disparities in HbA1c changes in older workers " (2025)

International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) 2024 Concress, International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), "Association of epigenetic age and work-related stress with trajectories of chronic health conditions in older workers" (April 28, 2024 - May 3, 2024)

Appiah, B., Mutambudzi, M. S., Puente, D., Boms, J., Deng Gac, E., American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Expo 2023, American Public Health Association (APHA), "Childhood lead poisoning as an environmental justice issue from 2013 to 2022: A content analysis of US newspapers for people of color. " (November 9, 2023 - November 14, 2023)

Mutambudzi, M. S., Brown, M. T., Chen, N., Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting, Gerontological Society of America, "Association of Second-Generation Epigenetic Clocks and Discrimination with Trajectories of Chronic Health Conditions" (November 8, 2023 - November 12, 2023)

Brown, M., Mutambudzi, M. S., Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting, Gerontological Society of America, "Functional Limitation: Differences by Epigenetic Aging, Ethnicity, and Experience of Discrimination" (November 8, 2023 - November 12, 2023)

Sous, W., Sharma, A., Shaw, A., Heffernan, K., Mutambudzi, M. S., National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC) Conference, National Association of Rural Health Clinics, "Factors associated with Arterial Stiffness in Refugees: Preliminary Findings from a sub-sample of Resettled Refugees in Central New York" (2022 - 2022)

Brown, M., Mutambudzi, M. S., The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2022 Annual Scientific, "Psychiatric History and Later-Life Cognitive Change: Effect Modification by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity" (2022)

Resnick, S., Fridley, E., Mutambudzi, M. S., Heffernan, K., MARC ACSM Annual Meeting, American College of Sports Medicine - Mid-Atlantic Regional Chapter, "The Effect Habitual Exercise on Older Adults Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2022)

Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) (2021)

Kammer Emmett Award, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) (2020)