SIDRA J. GOLDMAN-MELLOR May 2015 University of California, Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts 5200 N. Lake Road Merced, CA 95340 sgoldman-mellor@ucmerced.edu Phone: (209) 228-2498 Office: SSM 360B EDUCATION Ph.D. 2012 Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology M.P.H., 2007 Master of Public Health in Health and Social Behavior B.A. Cornell University, Cum Laude 2003 Anthropology RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST lifecourse and social determinants of internalizing disorder suicidal behavior links between violence and psychological disorder effects of psychological disorder on physical health and economic outcomes PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of Public Health University of California, Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts, Merced, CA 95340 July 2014 present NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow July 2012 June 2014 Center for Developmental Science (T32-HD07376) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Preceptors: Terrie Moffitt, Ph.D. and Avshalom Caspi, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Research postdoctoral training in developmental epidemiology of mental disorders. Research focused on suicidal behavior, sleep, and relationships between employment and mental health. Graduate Research Assistant, Berkeley, CA 94720 2005 2012 Goldman-Mellor 1
Research Intern University College London Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London, UK Research Assistant/Analyst NORC at the University of Chicago Health Policy Research Department, Washington, D.C. 2008 2009 2003 2005 PUBLICATIONS MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PREPARATION 1. S. Goldman-Mellor, L. Arseneault, T.E. Moffitt, C. Odgers, N. Ajala, A. Caspi (under review). Committed to work but vulnerable: Self-perceptions and mental health in NEET 18-year-olds from a contemporary British cohort. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES 1. M. Parsons, T.E. Moffitt, A. Gregory, S. Goldman-Mellor, P. Nolan, R. Poulton, A. Caspi. Social jetlag, obesity and metabolic disorder: Investigation in a cohort study. International Journal of Obesity 2015; 39(5): 842 848. PMCID: PMC4422765. 2. S. Goldman-Mellor, A. Caspi, A. Gregory, H. Harrington, R. Poulton, T.E. Moffitt. Is insomnia associated with deficits in neuropsychological functioning? Evidence from a population-based study. SLEEP [in press]. 3. S. Goldman-Mellor, A.M. Gregory, A. Caspi, H. Harrington, M. Parsons, R. Poulton, T.E. Moffitt. Mental health antecedents of early midlife insomnia: Evidence from a four-decade longitudinal study. SLEEP 2014; 37(11): 1767-1775. PMCID: PMC4196060. * Paper was the subject of an accompanying editorial in SLEEP. http://www.journalsleep.org/viewabstract.aspx?pid=29731 4. I. Shalev, T.E. Moffitt, A.W. Braithwaite, A. Danese, N.I. Fleming, S. Goldman-Mellor, H.L. Harrington, R.M. Houts, S. Israel, R. Poulton, S.P. Robertson, K. Sugden, B. Williams and A. Caspi. Internalizing disorders and leukocyte telomere erosion: a prospective study of depression, generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Mol Psychiatry 2014; 19(11):1163-70. PMCID: PMC4098012. 5. A. Caspi, R. Houts, D.W. Belsky, S. Goldman-Mellor, H.L. Harrington, S. Israel, M.H. Meier, S. Ramrakha, I. Shalev, R. Poulton, T.E. Moffitt. The p factor : One general psychopathology factor in the structure of psychiatric disorders? Clinical Psychological Science 2014; 2(2): 119-137. PMCID: PMC4209412. Goldman-Mellor 2
6. S. Goldman-Mellor, A. Caspi, H. Harrington, S. Hogan. S. Nada-Raja, R. Poulton, T. Moffitt. Suicide attempt in young people: A signal for long-term healthcare and social needs. JAMA Psychiatry 2014 Feb;71(2):119-27. PMCID: PMC3946312. * Paper was re-printed, with an associated commentary, in JAMA, Dec. 3, 2014. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1983661 7. D. Belsky, A. Caspi, S. Goldman-Mellor, M.H. Meier, R. Poulton, T. Moffitt. Is obesity associated with a decline in intelligence quotient during the first half of the life course? American Journal of Epidemiology 2013;178(9):1461 1468. PMCID: PMC3813310. 8. K. Saxton, A. Falconi, S. Goldman-Mellor, R. Catalano. No evidence of programmed late life mortality in the Finnish Famine cohort. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 2013; 4(1): 30-34. 9. S. Goldman-Mellor, M. Hamer, A. Steptoe. Early-life stress and psychological distress over the lifecourse predict divergent cortisol reactivity patterns in adulthood. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2012; 37(11): 1755 1768. 10. R. Catalano, C. Margerison-Zilko, S. Goldman-Mellor, M. Pearl, E. Anderson, K. Saxton, T. Bruckner, M. Subbaraman, J. Goodman, M. Epstein, R. Currier, M. Kharrazi. Natural selection in utero induced by mass layoffs: The hcg evidence. Evolutionary Applications 2012; 5(8): 796-805. PMCID: PMC3552398. 11. R. Catalano, K. Saxton, T. Bruckner, M. Pearl, E. Anderson, S. Goldman-Mellor, C. Margerison-Zilko, M. Subbaraman, R. Currier, M. Kharrazi. Hormonal evidence supports the theory of selection in utero. American Journal of Human Biology 2012; 24(4): 526-532. PMCID: PMC3372670. 12. R. Catalano, S. Goldman-Mellor, K. Saxton, C. Margerison-Zilko, M. Subbaraman, K. LeWinn, E. Anderson. The health effects of economic decline. Annual Review of Public Health 2011; 32: 431-50. PMCID: PMC3855327. 13. M. Subbaraman, S. Goldman-Mellor, E. Anderson, K. LeWinn, K. Saxton, M. Shumway, R. Catalano. An exploration of secondary sex ratios among women diagnosed with anxiety disorders. Human Reproduction 2010; 25(8):2084-91. PMCID: PMC2907232. 14. S. Goldman-Mellor, L. Brydon, A. Steptoe. Psychological distress and circulating inflammatory markers in healthy young adults. Psychological Medicine 2010; 40(12): 2079-87. 15. S. Goldman-Mellor, K. Saxton, R. Catalano. Economic contraction and mental health: A review of the evidence, 1990-2009. International Journal of Mental Health 2010; 39(2): 6-31. Goldman-Mellor 3
16. R. Catalano, K. Saxton, T. Bruckner, S. Goldman, E. Anderson. A sex-specific test of selection in utero. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2009; 257:475-9. PMCID: PMC2692239. 17. T. Bruckner, K. Saxton, E. Anderson, S. Goldman, Jeffrey Gould. From paradox to disparity: Trends in neonatal death in very low birth weight non-hispanic black and white infants, 1989-2004. Journal of Pediatrics 2009; 15(4):482-487. CHAPTERS 1. Goldman-Mellor, S. Unemployment and mental health. In: Friedman, H. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2 nd Ed. 2015. RESEARCH TECHNICAL REPORTS 2. Benz, J., D.S. Gaylin, S. Goldman, A. Ketchel, A. Moiduddin, S. Patel, M.S. Tilkin, and J. Williams. Patient Safety, Information Technology, and the Health Information Infrastructure in the State of Florida. Final Report to the Florida State Legislature. January 2004. 3. Gaylin, D.S., I. Gil, S. Goldman, and A. Moiduddin. Assessing the policy impact of AHRQ s low income research portfolio 1989-2000. Final report to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. January 2003. 4. Lee, J., A. Moiddudin, and S. Goldman. Strategies to Prevent Obesity: Report to the National Governors Association. September 2004. TEACHING Facilitator, Carolina Consortium on Human Development Proseminar 2012-2014 Center for Developmental Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC Topics: Causal Inference in Developmental Science, Developmental Mechanisms in Racial and Ethnic Minority Children and Youth, Development of Emotion Regulation, New Applications of Intense Longitudinal Analysis in Developmental Science Facilitator, Faculty Research Seminar Graduate Student Instructor, Epidemiologic Methods II (PH250B) Instructor of record: Jennifer Ahern, Ph.D. Doctoral-level course. Graduate Student Instructor, Epidemiologic Methods II (PH250B) Spring 2012 Fall 2011 Fall 2010 Goldman-Mellor 4
Instructor of record: Jennifer Ahern, Ph.D. Doctoral-level course. Graduate Student Instructor, Epidemiologic Methods II (PH250B) Instructor of record: John Colford, Ph.D. Doctoral-level course. Graduate Student Instructor, Epidemiologic Methods I (PH250A) Instructor of record: Arthur Reingold, Ph.D. Masters-level course. Fall 2009 Fall 2009 ACADEMIC HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Career Development Travel Award (declined) Anxiety and Depression Association of America Regents Fellowship University Fellowship Phi Beta Kappa Cornell University 2012 2007 2008 2005 2006 2003 RESEARCH FUNDING NICHD (T32-HD07376) Post-Doctoral Fellowship Center for Developmental Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 2012 2014 ACADEMIC SERVICE Ad hoc reviewer: American Journal of Epidemiology PLOS ONE Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Journal of Adolescent Health Psychoneuroendocrinology Developmental Review 2012 present Goldman-Mellor 5
Vice-President and Ph.D. Student Representative 2011 2012 Student Government Ph.D. Student Representative, School-wide task force 2011 M.P.H. Student Representative, Health and Social Behavior Program 2006 2007 INVITED LECTURES Suicide attempt: A signal for long-term health and social risk. 2015 Presented to Public Health graduate seminar, University of California-Merced, Merced, CA Adolescent suicidal behavior the long-term implications. 2013 Presented to Adolescence Today: Coming of Age in the Modern World undergraduate seminar, Duke University, Durham, NC Young people s suicide attempts during an economic recession: A signal for longterm healthcare and social needs. 2013 Presented to the Summer Fellows seminar, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC Young people s suicide attempts during an economic recession: A signal for longterm healthcare and social needs. 2013 Presented to the Environment, Molecules and Population Health graduate seminar,, Columbia University, New York, NY Early-life stress and recurrent psychological distress over the lifecourse predict 2012 divergent cortisol reactivity patterns in adulthood. Presented to the Developmental Psychology graduate seminar, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Is insomnia associated with impaired neuropsychological functioning? Evidence from a population-based cohort. Poster presentation, Society for Epidemiologic Research, Seattle, WA Mental health antecedents of early midlife insomnia: Evidence from a four-decade longitudinal study. Oral presentation, Life History Research Society meeting, Pittsburgh, PA Mental health antecedents of early midlife insomnia: Evidence from a four-decade longitudinal study. Poster presentation, American Psychopathological Association meeting, New 2014 2014 2014 Goldman-Mellor 6
York, NY Young people s suicide attempts during an economic recession: A signal for longterm healthcare and social needs. 2013 Poster presentation, American Psychopathological Association meeting, New York, NY Early-life stress and recurrent psychological distress over the lifecourse predict 2012 divergent cortisol reactivity patterns in adulthood. Oral presentation, American Psychosomatic Society, Athens, Greece Economic contraction and mental health: A review of the evidence, 1990-2009. 2009 Oral presentation, American Psychological Association/National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Convention on Work, Stress and Health, San Juan, Puerto Rico Psychological distress and inflammation in healthy young adults. 2009 Citation award poster, American Psychosomatic Society Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (Findings chosen for inclusion in the conference press release.) OTHER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING W.H.O. Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) Training Certification (2011) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Goldman-Mellor 7