Associate Professor
Heritage Hall 460F
(205) 975-5738
Research and Teaching Interests: Quantitative methods, Health disparities among children and adolescents, Immigration and acculturation, Deviant behaviors, Marriage and family
Office Hours: By appointment
Education:
- AA, Owens State Community College, General Concentration
- BA, Bowling Green State University, Sociology and Psychology
- MA, Bowling Green State University, Applied Demography
- PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, Sociology and Demography
I entered undergraduate school with a focus on psychology. I was interested in understanding how people worked. Before college, I had never heard of sociology. However, upon taking more and more sociology courses I came to believe that in order to understand how people work you must understand the broad social structures that impact their life and constrain choices and opportunities.
I have a strong background in quantitative methodology and was recently awarded the Statnet award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I have worked on examining how social determinants of health and the built environment leads to health disparities among children and adults with cystic fibrosis. Additionally, I am co-leader of the UAB Social Determinants of Health Research Core and have developed a toolkit to help clinical and basic science investigators to incorporate social determinants of health measures into their research. Lastly, I also work on a regional Common Data Elements project that uses electronic health records at three partnering academic institutions with area-level social and environmental measures. I like to examine health from a population perspective and seek to improve population health and reduce disparities.
I was born in Florida, grew up in Ohio, went to school in Pennsylvania, and moved here from Los Angeles, but I enjoy all of the outdoor beauty that Alabama has to offer. Besides teaching and research, I enjoy baking, NPR, and cats.
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Recent Courses
- Regression
- Health Disparities among Youths
- Deviant Behaviors
- Intimate Relationships and the Family
- Introduction to Sociology
- The Research Experience
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Select Publications
- Burns, Shane D., Elizabeth H. Baker, and Connor M. Sheehan (2022). "Disability and self-rated health: Exploring foreign-and US-born differences across adulthood opens a new website." Journal of Migration and Health.
- Wolfe, Joseph D., Elizabeth H. Baker, Jalal Uddin, and Stephanie Kirkland†. "Varieties of Financial Stressors and Midlife Health Problems opens a new website." The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (2022), 77 (1), 149–159.
- Oates, Gabriela R., Elizabeth Baker, Joseph M. Collaco, Steven M. Rowe, Sarah B. Rutland, Christopher M. Fowler, and William T. Harris. "Cessation of smoke exposure improves pediatric CF outcomes: Longitudinal analysis of CF Foundation Patient Registry data opens a new website." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis (2021).
- Hoque, Sophie †, Elizabeth H. Baker, and Adrienne Milner. (2021) “A quantitative study of race and gender representation within London medical school leadership opens a new website.” International Journal of Medical Education, 12, 94 - 100.
- Cedillo, Yenni E. †, Brenda Bertrand, Elizabeth Baker, Andrea L. Cherrington, T. Mark Beasley, and José R. Fernández. "Assimilation, Acculturation, and Allostatic Load in US-and Foreign-Born Hispanics opens a new website." Journal of immigrant and minority health 23, no. 1 (2021): 35-44.
- Baker, Elizabeth, William T. Harris, Steven M. Rowe, Sarah B. Rutland, Gabriela R. Oates. (2020). "Tobacco smoke exposure limits the therapeutic benefit of tezacaftor/ivacaftor in pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis opens a new website." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. *Won best paper award for 2020.
- Oates, Gabriela R., Elizabeth H. Baker, Steven M. Rowe, Hector H. Gutierrez, Michael S. Schechter, Wayne Morgan, William T. Harris (2020). "Tobacco smoke exposure and socioeconomic factors are independent predictors of pulmonary decline in pediatric cystic fibrosis opens a new website." Journal of Cystic Fibrosis.
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Grants Funded
OATES20A0-I, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Oates, Gabriela R. (PI), Role: Statistician
- 01/01/2021 – 12/31/2022
- Clinical Effort Against Smoke Exposure in CF (CEASE-CF)
P30DK072482, NIH/NIDDK
- Rowe, Steven (PI), Oates, Gabriela R (Pilot Project PI), Role: Statistician
- 05/2019 – 04/2022
- Impact of Second-hand Smoke on Response to CFTR Correction in CF Patients
U54MD000502
- Fouad, Mona (PI), Role: Investigator
- 8/1/2014 – 07/31/2022
- Director, Common Data Elements and Measurement Shared Resource
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Academic Distinctions and Professional Societies
- American Sociological Association (ASA)
- Southern Sociological Society (SSS)
- Population Association of America (PAA)