Scott D. Landes

• 2025 Spring
  • DSP/SOC 440 Sociology of Disability
  • SOC/WGS 355 Sociology-of Health and Illness
• 2024 Spring
  • DSP/SOC 440 Sociology of Disability
  • SOC 655 Sociology of Health and Illness
• 2023 Fall
  • SOC 606 Quantitative Research Design
• 2023 Spring
  • SOC 400 Selected Topics - Veterans Across the Life Cours
  • SOC/WGS 355 Sociology-of Health and Illness

Scott Landes is a professor of sociology and faculty associate in the Aging Studies Institute. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Florida in 2014.

Informed by his interest in medical sociology, aging and the life course, and disability theory, the majority of his research focuses on health and mortality trends across the life course for disabled people, and for veterans. His other primary research focus addresses the intersections of disability and social theory.

"Center for Aging and Policy Studies", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

"Erroneous Coding of Developmental Disabilities as Underlying Cause of Death", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

• Journal Articles
  • Diaz, K. O., Landes, S. D. and Monnat, S. M., "Differences in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) between U.S. Civilians and Military Veterans in the Gulf War and Post-9/11 War Eligibility Cohorts: A Research Note." Journal of Armed Forces & Society, 2024.
  • Cerilli, C., Varadaraj, V., Choi, J., Sweeney, F., Castro, F., Landes, S. D. and Swenor, B. K., "Disability Inclusion in National Surveys." Health Affairs Scholar, 2024.
  • Landes, S. D., Swenor, B. K. and Hall, J. P., "Performance of the Washington Group Questions in Measuring Blindness and Deafness." Health Affairs Scholar, 2024.
  • Formica, M., Cox, R., Christiana, J., Turk, M. and Landes, S. D., "Covid-19 Patterns among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disability and the General Population in New York State During the First Year of the Pandemic." Disability and Health Journal, 2024.
  • Landes, S. D., "Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19." Health Affairs, 2024.
  • Finan, J., Landes, S. D., Educational Attainment and Perceived Need for Future ADL Assistance. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2024.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A., "Health equity for people with intellectual and developmental disability requires vast improvements to data collection: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.." Disability and health journal, 2024.
  • Kenzie, L., Landes, S. D., "Integrating the Social and Political Dimensions of Disability into Life Course Theory." Research in Social Sciences and Disability, 2023.
  • Vaitsiakhovich, N., Landes, S. D. and Monnat, S. M., "The Role of Perceived Social Support in Subjective Wellbeing among Working-Age U.S. Adults with Limitations in Activities of Daily Living." Disability and Health Journal.
  • Vaitsiakhovich, N., Landes, S. D., "The association between the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and healthcare affordability among US adults with intellectual disability.." Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR, 2023.
  • Landes, S. D., Swenor, B. K. and Vaitsiakhovich, N., "Counting disability in the National Health Interview Survey and its consequence: Comparing the American Community Survey to the Washington Group disability measures.." Disability and health journal, 2023.
  • Landes, S. D., Piazza, J. R., "Age differences in long-term mortality among male nonveterans, noncombat veterans, and combat veterans.." Journal of traumatic stress, 2023.
  • Landes, S. D., Finan, J. M. and Turk, M. A., "Reporting Down syndrome on the death certificate for Alzheimer disease/unspecified dementia deaths.." PloS one, 2023.
  • Landes, S. D., Wilmoth, J. M., London, A. S. and Landes, A. T., "Risk Factors Explaining Military Deaths From Suicide, 2008-2017:A Latent Class Analysis.." Armed forces and society, 2023.
  • Piazza, J. R., Landes, S. D. and Stawski, R. S., "Age Differences in Allostatic Load among Veterans: The Importance of Combat Exposure." Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2022.
  • London, A. S., Landes, S. D., "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Age Pattern of Adult Mortality." Biodemography and Social Biology, 2022.
  • Dalton, S. J., Turk, M. A. and Landes, S. D., "Cause of Death Trends among Adults with and without Cerebral Palsy in the United States, 2013–2017.." Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2022.
  • Landes, S. D., Finan, J. M. and Turk, M. A., "Covid-19 Mortality Burden and Comorbidity Patterns among Decedents with and without Intellectual and Developmental Disability in the Us." Disability and Health Journal, 2022.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A. and Finan, J. M., "Factors Associated with the Reporting of Down Syndrome as the Underlying Cause of Death on US Death Certificates." Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2022.
  • Landes, S. D., Stevens†, J. D. and Turk, M. A., "Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing: Reporting Cerebral Palsy on Death Certificates." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2022.
  • Landes, S. D., Wilmoth, J. M., McDonald, K. E. and Smith, A. N., "Racial-Ethnic Inequities in Age at Death among Adults with/without Intellectual and Developmental Disability in the United States." Preventive Medicine, 2022.
  • Stevens, J. D., Landes, S. D., "Assessing State Level Variation in Signature Authority and Cause of Death Accuracy, 2005-2017." Public Health Reports, 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., Stevens, J. D. and Turk, M. A., "Cause of death in adults with intellectual disability in the United States." Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2021.
  • London, A. S., Landes, S. D., "Cohort Change in the Prevalence of ADHD among U.S. Adults: Evidence of a Gender-Specific Historical Period Effect." Journal of Attention Disorders, 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A. and Ervin, D. A., "Covid-19 Case-Fatality Disparities among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Evidence from 12 Us Jurisdictions." Disability and Health Journal, 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A. and Wong, A. W., "Covid-19 Outcomes among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability in California: The Importance of Type of Residence and Skilled Nursing Care Needs.." Disability and Health Journal., 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., Wilmoth, J. M., McDonald, K. E. and Carter-Grosso, E., "Evidence of Continued Reduction in the Age-at-Death Disparity between Adults with and without Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities." Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021.
  • Wong, A. W., Landes, S. D., "Expanding Understanding of Racial Ethnic Differences in Adhd Prevalence Rates among Children to Include Asians and Alaskan Natives/American Indians." Journal of Attention Disorders, 2021.
  • Bisesti, E., Landes, S. D., "Racial-Ethnic Differences in Educational Trajectories for Individuals with Intellectual Disability." Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A., Damiani, M. R., Proctor, P. and Baier, S., "Risk Factors Associated with Covid-19 Outcomes among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Receiving Residential Services." JAMA Network Open, 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., London, A. S. and Wilmoth, J. M., "Service-Connected Disability and the Veteran Mortality Disadvantage." Armed Forces & Society, 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A. and Bisesti, E., "Uncertainty and the Reporting of Intellectual Disability on Death Certificates: A Cross-Sectional Study of Us Mortality Data from 2005 to 2017." BMJ Open, 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., Stevens, J. D. and Turk, M. A., "Cause of Death in Adults with Down Syndrome in the US." Disability and Health Journal, 2020.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A., Formica, M. K., McDonald, K. E. and Stevens, J. D., "Covid-19 Outcomes among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability Living in Residential Group Homes in New York State." Disability and Health Journal, 2020.
  • Turk, M. A., Landes, S. D., Formica, M. K. and Goss, K. D., "Intellectual and Developmental Disability and Covid-19 Case-Fatality Trends: Trinetx Analysis.." Disability and Health Journal, 2020.
  • Sabatello, M., Landes, S. D. and McDonald, K. E., "People with Disabilities in Covid-19: Fixing Our Priorities." The American Journal of Bioethics, 2020.
  • Landes, S. D., Weng, S. S., "Racial-Ethnic Difference in Turnover Intent among Home Health Aides." Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2020.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A. and Lauer, E., "Recommendations for Accurately Reporting Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities on Death Certificates." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020.
  • Landes, S. D., London, A. S., "Self-Reported ADHD and Adult Health in the United States." Journal of Attention Disorders, 2020.
• Book Chapters
  • London, A. S., Landes, S. D. and Wilmoth, J. M., "Service-Connected Disability and Poverty among Us Veterans." In The Oxfored Handbook of the Sociology of Disability. Oxford, 2022.
  • Landes, S. D., Ardelt, M. and Landes, A. T., "Exploring the Veteran Mortality Differential: The Influence of War Era and Smoking Behavior." In Long-Term Outcomes of Military Service: The Health and Well-Being of Aging Veterans. APA, 2018.
  • Wilmoth, J. M., Landes, S. D., London, A. S. and MacLean, A., "Online Appendix A: Recommendations for Defining Periods of Military Service and Corresponding Age-18 Cohorts." In Long-Term Outcomes of Military Service: The Health and Well-Being of Aging Veterans. Spiro, A., Settersten, R. A. and Aldwin, C. M. (eds.) APA, 2018.
  • Ardelt, M., Landes, S. D., Gerlach, K. R. and Fox, L. P., "Rediscovering Internal Strengths of the Aged: The Beneficial Impact of Wisdom, Mastery, Purpose in Life, and Spirituality on Aging Well." In Positive Psychology: Advances in Understanding Adult Motivation. Sinnott, J. D. (ed.) Springer, 2013.
• Commentaries
  • Landes, S. D., Swenor, B. K., Clark, M. A., Goddard, K. S., Hall, J. P., Hermans, A., Ipsen, C., Karpman, M., Kurth, N. K., Myers, A., Popkin, S. J., Salinger, M. R. and Vaitsiakhovich, N., "A Research Roadmap Toward Improved Measures of Disability." Health Affairs Forefront, 2024.
  • Landes, S. D., Swenor, B. K., "A Year of Disability Health Equity Milestones: Why Disability Data Is Still Needed." In Disability and Health Journal. , 2024.
  • Swenor, B. K., Landes, S. D. and Hall, J. P., "Millions of people are missing from U.S. disability data." In STAT News. , 2024.
  • Swenor, B., Landes, S. D., "The next Census could undercount the number of disabled Americans by 20 million." STAT First Opinion, 2023.
  • Landes, S. D., "Mortality risk among adults with cerebral palsy: Alarming findings and lingering questions." Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2019.
• Research Briefs
  • Vaitsiakhovich, N., Landes, S. D. and Monnat, S. M., "Differences in Happiness and Perceived Meaning in Life between Us Working-Age Adults with Versus without a Self-Care Disability." In Population Health Research Brief Series. Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, 2024.
  • Landes, S. D., Swenor, B. K. and Hall, J. P., "It Is Time to Stop Using the Washington Group Questions to Measure Disability in Us Federal Surveys." In Population Health Research Brief Series. Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, 2024.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A., "A Call to Eliminate Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." Health Affairs Forefront, 2022.
  • Landes, S. D., Mehri, N. and Wilmoth, J. M., "Introducing the Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Age-at-Death Tracker." Population Health Research Briefs Series. Syracuse, NY: Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse University, 2021.
  • Bisesti, E., Landes, S. D., "More uncertainty leads to less accuracy on death certificates for adults with intellectual disability." Population Health Research Briefs Series. Syracuse, NY: Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse University, 2021.
  • Wong, A. W., Landes, S. D., "COVID-19 risk for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities varies by type of residential setting." Population Health Research Briefs Series. Syracuse, NY: Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse University, 2021.
  • Landes, S. D., "Progress in Closing the Age-at-Death Disparity for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." Population Health Research Briefs Series. Syracuse, NY: Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse University, 2020.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A., McDonald, K. E. and Sabatello, M., "Less Worthy Lives? We Must Prioritize People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation." Population Health Research Briefs Series. Syracuse, NY: Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse University, 2020.
  • Landes, S. D., Turk, M. A., Formica, M. K. and McDonald, K. E., "Covid-19 Trends among Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Living in Residential Group Homes in New York State through July 10, 2020." Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion Population Health Research Brief, Syracuse University, 2020.
  • Landes, S. D., "Major Causes of Death among Adults with Down Syndrome." Population Health Research Briefs Series. Syracuse, NY: Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse University, 2020.
  • Landes, S. D., Stevens, J. D. and Turk, M. A., "COVID-19 and pneumonia: Increased risk for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the pandemic." Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion Population Health Research Brief, Syracuse University, 2020.
  • Stevens, J. D., Landes, S. D., "Potential impacts of COVID-19 on individuals with intellectual and developmental disability: A call for accurate cause of death reporting." Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion Population Health Research Brief, Syracuse University, 2020.

Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Health Forum Speaker Series, Stanford University, "Covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2023 - 2023)

Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, "How can aging and life course research better include disabled researchers" (2023 - 2023)

Critical Disability Studies Speaker Series, University of Calgary, "Covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2022 - 2022)

Landes, S. D., Piazza, J., Gerontological Society of America, "Mortality risk among older veterans and nonveterans: The importance of combat status" (2022)

Panel of the Disability in Society Section, American Sociological Association, "Postmortem diagnostic overshadowing and Covid-19: Data inequities" (2022 - 2022)

Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence Webinar, National Academies on Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), "COVID-19 case-fatality among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2021 - 2021)

Population Association of America, "COVID-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2021)

InterAgency Council NYC, "Covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2021 - 2021)

ARC New York Self-Advocates Meeting, "Covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2021 - 2021)

Georgia Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (GaLEND) Speaker Series, Center for Leadership in Disability, Georgia State University, "Covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2021 - 2021)

Lurie Institute Brandeis for Disability Policy Seminar, Brandeis University, "Covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2021 - 2021)

Speaker Series, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), "Covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities" (2021 - 2021)

Included: The Disability Equity Podcast, Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center, "Disability Data" (2021 - 2021)

Access CNY, "Intellectual and developmental disability Covid-19 trends" (2021 - 2021)

Annual Conference, CP Upstate, "Intellectual and developmental disability COVID-19 trends" (2021 - 2021)

Center for Excellence in Disabilities Speaker Series, West Virginia University, "Mortality trends among adults with intellectual and/or developmental disability" (2021 - 2021)

Annual Meeting, NY ARC, "New York's experience: People with I/DD and Covid-19" (2021 - 2021)

Population Association of America, "Predictors of inaccurate reporting of Down syndrome on the death certificate" (2021)

Piazza, J., Landes, S. D., Gerontological Society of America, "Diurnal cortisol profiles and veteran status" (2020)

Annual Meeting, New York Disability Advocates (NYDA), "Intellectual and developmental disability mortality trends" (2020 - 2020)

Network on Life Course Health Dynamics & Disparities (NLCHDD), "Mortality trends among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Disability is not the problem" (2020 - 2020)

Annual Meeting, New York Integrated Network for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (NYIN), "New York's experience: People with I/DD and Covid-19" (2020 - 2020)

Bisesti, E., Landes, S. D., American Sociological Association, "Racial-ethnic differences in educational trajectories for individuals with cognitive impairments: The case of intellectual disability" (2020)

Cheng, K. J., Landes, S. D., Wilmoth, J. M., Gerontological Society of America, "Risk aversion among male older adults: Does veteran status matter?" (2020)

Landes, S. D., Wilmoth, J. M., London, A. S., Landes, A. T., American Sociological Association, "Sociodemographic and military status differences in identified risk factors among active-duty US service members who committed suicide between 2008 and 2017" (2020)

2025 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, Graduate School, Syracuse University (April, 2025)