Belinda Needham is currently assistant professor of epidemiology and co-director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan. Her primary research goals are to use novel approaches to assess health disparities across the life course and to identify the social structural, psychological, behavioral, and physiological mechanisms by which social disadvantage leads to poor health. She is multiple PI on two NIH-funded projects examining DNA methylation as a mechanism underlying racial/ethnic health disparities.
