DAVID H. REHKOPF Curriculum vitae

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1 DAVID H. REHKOPF Curriculum vitae EDUCATION Harvard University, School of Public Health, Boston, MA Doctor of Science, Society, Human Development and Health Mar 2006 Dissertation: The non-linear impacts of income on mortality, biomarkers, and childhood growth. Advisor: Dr. Lisa Berkman Focus: social inequalities in health; epidemiological methods; life course impacts on health; cardiovascular risk markers and income University of California, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA Master of Public Health, Epidemiology/Biostatistics May 2001 Major paper: Does the impact of job-strain on heart disease vary by measurement method?: a metaanalysis. Advisor: Dr. John Frank Focus: psychosocial work environment and health; community based public health University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA Bachelor of Science, Biology Dec 1994 Thesis: Induction and characterization of light sensing mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhhardtii. Advisor: Dr. Mary Rose Lamb Focus: molecular biology RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Sep 2006 to present University of California, San Francisco/UC Berkeley analyzing the effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC) on cardiovascular risk factors and growth in children and adolescents international comparison of social gradients in cardiovascular biomarkers and growth between the U.S. and Costa Rica analyzing black-white differences in the development of obesity and cardiovascular biomarkers in girls from ages of 9 to 19 applying recursive partitioning methods to the analysis of social gradients in cardiovascular biomarkers and the development of obesity Harvard University, School of Public Health Aug 2002 to Aug 2006 Research Associate, PI: Dr. Nancy Krieger applying tools to monitor social gradients in cause-specific mortality and morbidity for the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with emphasis on developing techniques, validating, then freely sharing through the web examined data from US cancer registries, finding changing socioeconomic trends in breast cancer by race/ethnicity collaborating with the Massachusetts Department of Health to analyze health disparities in Boston metro areas, using multi-level and Bayesian analysis techniques to create more stable rates amenable to mapping Harvard University, School of Public Health Jun 2002 to June 2005 Research Associate, PI: Dr. Stephen Buka using multi-level statistical techniques to understand social group and place interactions with individual characteristics in adolescent suicide etiology completed structured review of suicide rates and socioeconomic characteristics of areas

2 University College, London, Department of Public Health Jul 2001 to Aug 2001 Visiting Researcher, PI: Dr. Michael Marmot conducted research using data from the Whitehall II cohort of British Civil Servants analysis of external versus self-report measures of the psychosocial work environment County of San Francisco, Department of Public Health May 2000 to May 2001 Research Intern, PI: Dr. Thomas Aragon applied Global Burden of Disease disability life years methodology to county data wrote program in statistical software package R to allow any region to do these analyses University of California, San Francisco Nov 1997 to Aug 1999 Staff Research Associate, PI: Dr. Jane Koehler studied gene expression patterns involved in the pathogenesis of Bartonella bacteria, responsible for angiogenic lesions and opportunistic infections in immune compromised individuals developed and refined the application of novel techniques for analyzing gene expression including microarrays and Fluorescence Activated Cell (FACS) sorting Seattle Biomedical Research Institute Aug 1994 to Oct 1997 Laboratory Research Technician, PI: Dr. Jean Feagin sequenced genes and characterized transcriptional modifications of a human malaria parasite potentially informing the development of chemotherapeutics developed and utilized new methods of analyzing post-transcriptional modification of mrna TEACHING EXPERIENCE Harvard University, School of Public Health Graduate Student Instructor Spring 2005 Human Development and Health (Dr. Stephen Buka). Delivered course lecture, lead review sessions and assisted in developing syllabus for this new course. Co-Instructor Mar 2005 to June 2006 Geocoding, census data and social disparities in health. (Dr. Nancy Krieger, PI) Co-instructor for NIH funded course teaching analysis of geocoded health data to academics and public health practitioners from across the US and Canada Graduate Student Instructor Spring 2004 Social Epidemiology (Dr. Lisa Berkman). Lecture, discussant, and assisted Dr. Berkman with updating course content and syllabus for this upper level seminar. Graduate Student Instructor Summer 2002 Health and Society (Dr. Ichiro Kawachi). Lead discussion groups and review sessions for this core M.P.H. required course. MEMBERSHIP, HONORS/AWARDS AND ACADEMIC SERVICE Member of the American Public Health Association, 2001 to present Member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, 2005 to present Member of the Population Association of America, 2006 to present Harvard School of Public Health, Doctoral written exam, pass with honors, 2003 Public Health Training Scholarship, UC Berkeley, Trustees of the University Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, Reviewer for Social Science and Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Psychological Medicine, Social Forces, BMC Public Health, American Journal of Public Health

3 PUBLICATIONS Rehkopf DH, Krieger N, Coull B, Berkman L. The association between income and biological risk markers for coronary heart disease in the US by gender: a population based study (US Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, ). (under preparation for submission to, Circulation) Rehkopf DH, Coull B, Berkman L, Krieger N. The risk of mortality in the United States is non-linear across the income distribution: a population based study (US Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, ). (under preparation for submission to, New England Journal of Medicine) Rehkopf DH, Furumoto-Dawson A, Kiszewski A, Awerbuch-Friedlander T. Spatial spread of tuberculosis through neighborhoods segregated by socioeconomic position: a stochastic automata model. (under preperation for submission to, Journal of Urban Health) Adler NE, Rehkopf DH. U.S. disparities in Health: descriptions, understanding causes and identifying mechanisms. (under review, Annual Review of Public Health) Krieger N, Rehkopf DH, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Marcelli E, Kennedy M. The fall and rise inequities in US premature mortality. (under review, PLOSmed) Mendelson T, Rehkopf DH, Kubzansky LD. Depression among Latinos in the United States: A Meta- Analytic Review. (under revision for, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology) Rehkopf DH, Kuper H, Marmot MG. The effects of the discrepancy between objective and subjective measures of job strain on sickness absence in the Whitehall II study. (under revision for, International Journal of Epidemiology) Loucks EB, Magnusson KT, Cook SC, Rehkopf DH, Ford ES, Berkman L. Socioeconomic Position and the Metabolic Syndrome in Early, Middle and Late Life: Evidence from NHANES (in press, Annals of Epidemiology) Loucks EB, Rehkopf DH, Thurston R, Kawachi I. Socioeconomic disparities in the metabolic syndrome differ by gender: Evidence from NHANES III. Annals of Epidemiology, 17: (2007). Rehkopf DH, Haughton LT, Chen JT, Waterman PD, Subramanian SV, Krieger N. Monitoring socioeconomic disparities in death: comparing individual-level education and area-based socioeconomic measures. American Journal of Public Health, 96: (2006) Chen, JT, Rehkopf DH, Waterman P, Subramanian SV, Coull B, Cohen B, Ostrom M, Krieger N. Mapping and measuring social disparities in premature mortality: the impact of census tract poverty within and across Boston neighborhoods, Journal of Urban Health, 83: Subramanian SV, Chen J, Rehkopf DH, Waterman P, Krieger N. Subramanian et al. Respond to Think Conceptually, Act Cautiously. American Journal of Epidemiology, 164: (2006). Subramanian SV, Chen J, Rehkopf DH, Waterman P, Krieger N. Comparing individual and area-based socioeconomic measures for the surveillance of health disparities: a multilevel analysis of Massachusetts (US) births, American Journal of Epidemiology, 164: (2006). Krieger N, Chen J, Waterman P, Rehkopf DH, Yin R, Coull B. Race/ethnicity and changing US socioeconomic gradients in breast cancer incidence: California and Massachusetts, Cancer Causes and Control, 17: (2006). Rehkopf DH, Buka S. The association between suicide and socioeconomic characteristics of geographical areas: a systematic review, Psychological Medicine, 36: (2006).

4 Krieger N, Chen J, Waterman P, Rehkopf DH, Subramanian SV. Painting a truer picture of US socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequalities: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project. American Journal of Public Health, 95: (2005). Subramanian SV, Chen J, Rehkopf DH, Waterman P, Krieger N. Racial Disparities in Context: a multilevel analysis of neighborhood variations in poverty and excess mortality among black populations in Massachusetts. American Journal of Public Health, 95: (2005). Bolon MK, Arnold AD, Feldman HA, Rehkopf DH, Strong EF, Goldman DA, Wright SB. Evaluating vancomycin use at a pediatric hospital: new approaches and insights. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 26: (2005). Krieger, N, Chen J, Watermen P, Rehkopf DH, Subramanian SV. Race/ethnicity, gender and monitoring socioeconomic gradients in health: a comparison of area-based socioeconomic measures- The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project. American Journal of Public Health 93, (2003). Krieger N, Northridge M, Gruskin S, Quinn M, Kriebel D, Davey Smith G, Bassett M, Rehkopf DH, Miller C, et al. Assessing health impact assessment: multidisciplinary and international perspectives. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 57: (2003). Park S, Kelminson K, Lee A, Zhang P, Warner R, Rehkopf DH, Calderwood S, Koehler J. Identification, Characterization, and Functional Analysis of a Gene Encoding the Ferric Uptake Regulation Protein in Bartonella Species. Journal of Bacteriology 183: (2001). Rehkopf DH, Gillespie D, Feagin J. Transcriptional mapping and RNA processing of the Plasmodium falciparum mitochondrial mrnas. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 105: (2000). Gillespie D, Salazar N, Rehkopf DH, Feagin J. The fragmented mitochondrial ribosomal RNAs of Plasmodium falciparum have short A tails. Nucleic Acids Research 27: (1999). Rickoll W, Rehkopf DH, Dunn C, Malmberg A, VanWinkle-Swift K. The sta-1 mutation prevents assembly of starch granules in nitrogen-starved cells and serves as a useful morphological marker during sexual reproduction in Chlamydomonas monoica. Journal of Phycology 34: (1998). Ji Y, Mericle B, Rehkopf DH, Anderson J, Feagin J. The Plasmodium falciparum 6 kb element in polycistronically transcribed. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 81: (1996). INVITED ORAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (listing only those as a presenting author) Rehkopf DH. Using random forests to understand the relative importance of income for predicting cardiovascular risk factors. Society for Epidemiologic Research, Boston, MA, June Rehkopf DH, Glymour MM. Earnings and health: comparing earnings from single-year self-reported measures to multi-year administrative records. Population Association Meeting, New York, NY, March Chen J, Rehkopf DH. The contribution of census tract poverty to neighborhood and census tract variation in premature mortality, Boston Northeast Epidemiology Conference, Chatham, MA, November, Krieger N, Waterman P, Chen J, Rehkopf DH, Subramanian SV. Monitoring and mapping social disparities in Urban Health. Third International Conference on Urban Health., Boston, MA, October 2004.

5 CONFERENCE POSTERS (listing only those as a presenting author) Rehkopf DH, Berkman L, Coull B, Krieger N. The association between family income and biological risk markers for coronary heart disease in the US: a population based study (US Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), ). Society for Epidemiologic Research, Boston, MA, June Rehkopf DH, Furumoto-Dawson A, Kiszewski A, Awerbuch-Friedlander T. Modeling the spatial spread of tuberculosis through neighborhoods: a cellular automata model. Second International Conference on Urban Health, New York, NY, October 2003.