Julie H. Carmalt |
| Lecturer |
| 118 A MVR Hall |
| PAM, Sloan |
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| Phone: 607-255-2502 |
| Fax: 607-255-4071 |
| Email: jhc48@cornell.edu |
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Biographical Statement:
Julie Carmalt is a lecturer in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management (PAM) at Cornell University and in the Sloan Program in Health Administration in PAM. She joined the department after completing her Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University in 2009.
Carmalt is a demographer with primary research and teaching interests in population health, public health policy, demographic and life course perspectives on health, and relationships and health. Particular areas of research focus are obesity and health-risk behavior.
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Courses Taught:
PAM 2030: Population and Public Policy
PAM 5990: Challenges and Trends in the Health Services Industry
Coming in spring 2010!
Fundamentals of Population Health (new graduate course in Sloan/PAM)
Health, Demographic Processes, and the Life Course (new undergraduate course in PAM) |
Current Professional Activities:
Carmalt is a co-PI on a grant from the National Center for Marriage Research - with Kara Joyner (PI) and Rachel Dunifon (co-PI) - to investigate the influence of resident fathers parenting style on early transitions to parenthood.
Served as ad hoc reviewer for Sociological Methods and Research. |
Current Research Activities:
Carmalt's primary research interests lie at the intersection of demography and health. She currently studies relationships and health with a specific focus on obesity. Carmalt is particularly interested in understanding how obesity both influences, and is influenced by, demographic processes throughout the life course (i.e., mate selection, union formation, sexual debut, education attainment, labor force participation, etc.) and in understanding how individuals in couples and families influence each others health and health-related behaviors.
Carmalt is currently focusing her research efforts on two studies that examine assortative mating for body weight among U.S. heterosexual couples. These studies use dyadic data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health) romantic pair dataset (data about roughly 500 dating, 500 cohabiting, and 500 married couples) and the Marital and Relationship Survey (MARS; data about 433 low-income married couples).
Carmalt has also examined fertility patterns among cohabiting women, the effect of religion on marital quality, effects of family processes on young adults transition to early parenthood, economic and demographic correlates of infidelity, marital assimilation among immigrants, and associations between body weight and risky sexual behavior.
Carmalt's research has appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science Research, and Social Science Quarterly.
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Education:
Ph.D. 2009 - Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management
M.S. 2008 - Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management
M.S. 2003 - University of Utah, Family Ecology
B.A. 1995 - Humboldt State University, Liberal Arts-Recreation Administration |
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The information on this bio page is taken from the CHE Annual Report. |
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