Professor
University of Colorado Denver
Denver, Colorado, United States
Ronica N. Rooks is a Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Director of Online Education at the University of Colorado Denver. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in health disparities at the University of Michigan and geriatric epidemiology at the National Institute on Aging. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland College Park. Her research focuses on social-ecological explanations for racial and ethnic disparities in chronic conditions. Her Fulbright Canada fellowship developed interdisciplinary networks in the social and health sciences to examine relationships between gentrification, social disadvantage (e.g., lower SES and racial/ethnic minority status) and prevalent chronic conditions and management among older adults in Hamilton, Ontario. She plans to similarly examine these relationships among older adults in Denver, Colorado. Her other research explores if working and volunteering, as productive activities, can mitigate Black vs. White racial disparities in prevalent and incident dementia and subsequent cognitive declines over time among older adults in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition study. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and serves as Past Chair for the Minority Issues in Gerontology Advisory Panel.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
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Friday, November 4, 2022
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