Noreen Goldman

Biosketch

Noreen Goldman, D.Sc. is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a Faculty Associate at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. She earned her BA in mathematics from New York University and her MA in statistics and DSc in population sciences from Harvard University. She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served in various positions of the Population Association of America. She is the author of about 250 articles in population, epidemiology, sociology and statistics journals and various book chapters and monographs. She has been the principal investigator of large-scale NIH-funded demographic surveys in Guatemala, Peru, and Taiwan.

Research Interests

Dr. Goldman’s research lies at the intersection of social epidemiology and demography. Much of her work has examined the linkages between the social environment and health in both low- and high-income settings, with a particular focus on identifying the physiological pathways through which social and economic factors affect health and survival. In recent years, she has examined racial and ethnic disparities in health in the US examining the relationship between migration and health patterns among Latinos, the effects of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic inequalities in survival, and the impact of occupational status on disparities in physical and cognitive functioning. She is currently involved in a demographic, clinical, and molecular data collection effort to assess the social determinants of cardiovascular health among disadvantaged young adults in the US.