Margaret T Hicken
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center
Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology
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Margaret T Hicken
Research Associate Professor
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    • Qualifications
    • Ph.D.
      University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, 2010
    Research Overview

    Dr. Hicken studies racial inequalities in health, complex systems, gene-environment interactions, stress and environmental toxicants in health.

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    • Journal Article
      The mediating role of systemic inflammation and moderating role of racialization in disparities in incident dementia.
      Higgins Tejera C, Ware EB, Hicken MT, Kobayashi LC, Wang H, Blostein F, Zawistowski M, Mukherjee B, Bakulski KM. Commun Med (Lond), 2024 Jul 13; 4 (1): 142 DOI:10.1038/s43856-024-00569-w
      PMID: 39003383
    • Preprint
      DNA Methylation Age Acceleration Mediates the Relationship between Systemic Inflammation and Cognitive Impairment.
      Tejera CH, Zhu P, Ware EB, Hicken MT, Zawistowski M, Kobayashi LC, Seblova D, Manly J, Mukherjee B, Bakulski KM. 2024 Jul 25; DOI:10.1101/2024.07.24.24310948
      PMID: 39211888
    • Journal Article
      Current Approaches to Measuring Local Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in Population Health Studies
      Kershaw KN, Barber S, Hicken MT. Current Epidemiology Reports, 2024 Mar 1; 11 (1): 32 - 43. DOI:10.1007/s40471-023-00335-x
    • Journal Article
      Persistent Systemic Inflammation Mediates the non‐Hispanic Black vs non‐Hispanic White Disparity in Cognitive Function: A Longitudinal Analysis
      Higgins C, Ware EB, Hicken M, Zawistowski M, Kobayashi LC, Adkins‐Jackson PA, Muhkerjee B, Bakulski KM. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2023 Dec; 19 (S22): DOI:10.1002/alz.072772
    • Journal Article
      Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation and Monocyte DNA Methylation Age Acceleration.
      Hicken MT, Dou J, Kershaw KN, Liu Y, Hajat A, Bakulski KM. JAMA Netw Open, 2023 Nov 1; 6 (11): e2344722 DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.44722
      PMID: 38019517
    • Preprint
      The Mediating Role of Systemic Inflammation and Moderating Role of Race/Ethnicity in Racialized Disparities in Incident Dementia: A Decomposition Analysis.
      Tejera CH, Ware E, Hicken M, Kobayashi L, Wang H, Adkins-Jackson P, Blostein F, Zawistowski M, Mukherjee B, Bakulski K. 2023 Apr 5; DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2753483/v1
      PMID: 37066239
    • Preprint
      The Mediating Role of Systemic Inflammation and Moderating Role of Race/Ethnicity in Racialized Disparities in Incident Dementia: A Decomposition Analysis.
      Tejera CH, Ware EB, Hicken MT, Kobayashi LC, Wang H, Adkins-Jackson PB, Blostein F, Zawistowski M, Mukherjee B, Bakulski KM. 2023 Mar 28; DOI:10.1101/2023.03.22.23287593
      PMID: 37034792
    • Journal Article
      Evaluating Race in Air Pollution and Health Research: Race, PM2.5 Air Pollution Exposure, and Mortality as a Case Study.
      Hicken MT, Payne-Sturges D, McCoy E. Curr Environ Health Rep, 2023 Mar; 10 (1): 1 - 11. DOI:10.1007/s40572-023-00390-y
      PMID: 36689136