Jessica Ho, PhD
2017-2018 RCMAR Scientist, USC Schaeffer CenterAssociate Professor of Sociology and Demography, Social Science Research Institute, Penn State University
Jessica Ho, PhD's Bio
Jessica Ho, PhD, was a 2017-2018 RCMAR Scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center. She is a demographer and sociologist who studies the social determinants of health and mortality. Her research seeks to explain differences in life expectancy and health over the life course across populations. Her three major areas of research examine why American life expectancy lags behind other high-income countries, socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequalities, and health and aging in developing countries.
Her RCMAR project was Implications of the American Drug Overdose Epidemic for Elderly Populations.
Publications:
- Inequalities in life expectancy and cardiometabolic disease mortality across and within high-income countries
Ho, J. Y., & Hendi, A. S. (2024). Inequalities in life expectancy and cardiometabolic disease mortality across and within high-income countries. Cell Metabolism, 36(2), 224-228. - Life Course Patterns of Prescription Drug Use in the United States
Ho, J. Y. (2023). Life Course Patterns of Prescription Drug Use in the United States. Demography, 60(5), 1549-1579.
