Sarah Burgard Ph.D., M.S.

Expertise: Employment insecurity and health

Academic Discipline: Sociology, Epidemiology

Appointments: Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, Assistant Research Scientist, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Phone: (734) 615-9538

E-mail: burgards@umich.edu

· Can discuss relationships between job insecurity, job loss and health.
· Researches relationship between social inequalities and health inequalities by race and socioeconomic position.
· Ongoing projects include research on "bad jobs," who holds them, and how they influence health over the career and work on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in infant and child health in South Africa, Brazil, and other international contexts.