Linnea Evans

Linnea Evans

Assistant Professor of Community Health Education

Racism; stress and coping; early-onset chronic health conditions among Black Americans; inequities in adolescence

Location

Arnold House

715 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

334 Arnold House

Linnea Evans is a mixed-methods researcher whose research broadly examines social exclusion processes that link racial and ethnic minoritized groups to disadvantaged health, particularly through pathways that affect the body’s physiological stress response system. Her work largely focuses on Black Americans, particularly in adolescence and young adulthood.

Evans’ core research aims to answer the following questions: (1) How do social structures and policies dictate the stratification of resources by race/ethnicity, particularly the resource of time in the form of daily demands, rewards, and exclusions, (2) How does this form of stratification contribute to stress and racial inequities in early-onset chronic disease and mental health conditions, and (3) How do racial/ethnic minoritized communities adapt and work to disrupt these processes.

Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan
  • MPH, Boston University
  • BS, University of Michigan

Key Publications

Ignacio, M., Mercado, M., Carver, A., Lopez, G., Oesterle, S., Wolfersteig, W., Ayers, S., Ki, S., Hamm, K., Parthasarathy, S., Evans, L., Sabo, S., & Doubeni, C. (2022). Narratives from African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Hispanic/Latinx community members in Arizona to enhance COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination uptake. Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Geronimus, A., Bound, J., Mitchell, C., Martinez-Cardoso, A., Evans, L., Hughes, L., & Notterman, D. (2021). On the validity of measuring telomere length using venous blood, dried spots or saliva samples. PLoS ONE, 16(8), e0255237.

Evans, L., Engelman, M., Mikulas, A., & Malecki, K. (2021). How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetics research? A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine, 273: 113738.

O’Brien, R., Neman, T., Seltzer, N., Evans, L., & Venkataramani, A (2020). Structural racism, economic opportunity and racial health disparities: Evidence from U.S. counties. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health, 11, 100564.

Evans, L., Geronimus, A., & Caldwell, C. (2019). Systematically shortchanged, yet carrying on: Experiences of Black adolescent girls in the Detroit metropolitan school reform context. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 16(2), 357-383.