Dr. Winkleby's work focuses on the health of low-income, ethnic minority, and other medically underserved populations. A number of grants from the NIH and other Federal and State agencies have supported this work. Her research has a broad public health focus. Specific areas of her work are: cancer and cardiovascular disease health behaviors, risk factors and outcomes (smoking, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, obesity, diabetes, hypertension); health status of ethnic minority and low socioeconomic groups; community-based intervention studies; and neighborhood influences on health. A central feature of her work has been the combination of theoretical and scientific input with practical input from the community to understand behavioral, social, cultural, and economic determinants of health behaviors that are amenable to change. Dr. Winkleby's research is congruent with a number of public service activities, including the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program, a summer residential program that she and two students began in 1988 that is dedicated to encouraging low-income high school students to pursue advanced studies in the biomedical and behavioral sciences to prepare them for medical and other professional careers.
Please click on the links in each of the research categories to learn more about past studies:
- Neighborhood Studies
- Chronic Diseases and their Risk Factors
- Latino Health
- Interventions in Schools and/or Communities
- International Collaborative Studies
- Youth Development
- Social Disparities
- Maternal and Child Health/Women's Health
Neighborhood Studies
- The Influence of Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status on Mortality Among Black, Mexican-American, and White Women and Men in the United States
- Effect of Cross-level Interaction between Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status on Adult Mortality Rates
- Neighbourhood Deprivation and Alcohol Consumption: Does the Availability of Alcohol Play a Role?
- More Research
Chronic Diseases and their Risk Factors
- Changing Patterns in Health Behaviors and Risk Factors Related to Chronic Diseases, 1990-2000
- Ethnic and Socioeconomic Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
- Ethnic Variation in Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Children and Young Adults
- More Research
Latino Health
- Ten-Year Changes in Cancer-Related Health Behaviors and Screening Practices Among Latino Women and Men in California
- Cancer-related Health Behaviors and Screening Practices Among Latinos: Findings From a Commmunity and Agricultural Labor Camp Survey
- More Research
Interventions in Schools and/or Communities
- Effects of an Advocacy Intervention to Reduce Smoking Among Teenagers
- The Stanford Nutrition Action Program: A Dietary Fat Intervention for Low-Literacy Adults
- More Research
International Collaborative Studies
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Environment and Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease: a Follow-up Study of 25,319 Women and Men in Sweden
- More Research
Youth Development
- The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program: 18 Years of a Biomedical Program for Low-income High School Students
- More Research
