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Faculty
Faculty

Yan-Liang Yu

Assistant Professor

yanliang.yu@Howard.edu
(202) 806-9354
CV

Department/Office

  • Sociology & Criminology

School/College

  • College of Arts & Sciences

Education & Expertise

Education

Sociology

Ph.D.
Michigan State University
2016

Expertise

Marriage, Intimate Partnership and Health

Aging, Health and Life Course

Social Inequalities in Health

Health and Retirement Study

National Health Interview Survey

Quantitative Data Analysis

Academics

Academics

SOCI 310: Sociological Research Methods I

SOCI 311: Sociological Research Methods II

SOCI 284: Seminar on Mental Health

SOCI 184: Sociology of Mental Health

SOCI 280: Sociology of the Family

SOCI 219: Advanced Statistics I

SOCI 319: Advanced Statistics II

SOCI 314: Social Inequalities in Health

Research

Research

Specialty

Marriage, Intimate Partnership and Health; Aging, Health and Life Course; Social Inequalities in Health

Related Articles

Yu, Yan-Liang. 2023. “Disparities by Race/Ethnicity and Immigration Status in Perceived Importance of and Access to Culturally Competent Health Care in the United States.” Advance online. Journal of Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities.

Yu, Yan-Liang & Robert-Paul Juster. 2023 "Spousal Synchrony in Allostatic Load among Older Partnered Couples in the Health and Retirement Study." Psychosomatic Medicine, 85(8): 716-726.

Yu, Yan-Liang. 2023. “Current Marital Status and Epigenetic Clocks: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.” Journal of Aging & Health, 35(1-2): 71-92.

Yu, Yan-Liang & Hui Liu. 2021. “Marital Quality and Salivary Telomere Length among Older Men and Women in the United States.” Journal of Aging & Health 33(5-6): 300-309.

Staudinger, Ursula M., Yan-Liang Yu & Bin Cheng. 2020. "Novel Information Processing at Work across Time is Associated with Cognitive Change in Later Life: A 14-Year Longitudinal Study." Psychology and Aging 35(6): 793-805.

Yu, Yan-Liang and Zhenmei Zhang. 2020. "Relationship Quality and Functional Limitations among US Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease in the United States of America" Ageing and Society 40(8): 1694-1717.

Yu, Yan-Liang and Zhenmei Zhang 2017. "Interracial Marriage and Self-Reported Health of Whites and Blacks in the United States." Population Research and Policy Review 36(6): 851-870.