Alicia Rose Riley
Assistant Professor & Core Faculty in Global and Community Health Program
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Social Sciences Division
Assistant Professor & Core Faculty in Global and Community Health Program
Faculty
Latin American & Latino Studies
Rachel Carson College Academic Building
328
Virtual on Wednesdays 2-3 pm, Fridays 2:15-3:15 pm and by appointment. Email for info.
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Department Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
PhD in Sociology, University of Chicago
MA in Sociology, University of Chicago
MPH in Epidemiology/Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
MA in Latin American Studies, Stanford University
BA w/ Honors in Human Biology, Stanford University
The modifiability of health inequities; Structural racism; Systems of racialization and social stratification and health; Im/migrant health; Aging and the lifecourse; COVID-19; Mortality disparities; State and local policy related to the social determinants of health
Population health; Social context of health inequalities; Migration and health; Analyzing health data; Aging; Public policy and health; Writing
2024 // UCSC Institute for Social Transformation Building Belonging Fellowship
2024 // UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor’s Writing Fellowship
2023-25 // UCOP California Climate Action Seed Grant, “Farmworker Community Health Vulnerabilities and Responses Amid Climate Change”, Co-PI
2023 // CPR3 Behavior Change and Communication Catalyst Award, Co-PI
2023 // Hellman Fellowship, “Consequences of the Mexican Repatriation Program for Child Mortality in the U.S.”
2023 // UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor’s Writing Fellowship
2023-25 // UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, “Social Networks and Health among Indigenous Californians Research Collaborative”, Co-PI
2022 // Univ. of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty (PI: Aresha Martinez-Cardoso), Consultant
2022 // UCSC Office of Research Seed Funding for Early Stage Initiatives
2022 // UCSC Institute for Social Transformation Sprout Grant
2022 // UCSC Institute for Social Transformation Building Belonging Fellowship
2022 // UCSC Research Center for the Americas Faculty Research Grant
2021 // Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences, Postdoctoral Award
2019 // NSHAP Fellows Program, Invited Fellow (2019-2022)
2018 // Excellence in Course Design, Chicago Center for Teaching, Honorable Mention
2018 // First Place Poster, International Conference on Aging in the Americas
2018 // Pozen Center Prize Lectureship in Human Rights, University of Chicago
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:
(For a full list of my publications, see my Google Scholar page)
Riley, Alicia R. 2024. “State Cigarette Taxes, Smoking Cessation, and Implications for the Educational Gradient in Mortality” Social Science and Medicine.
Riley, Alicia R., Louise Hawkley, Lissette Piedra. 2024. “Unequal Loss: Disparities in Relational Closeness to a COVID-19 Death Among U.S. Older Adults” Journal of the American Geriatric Society.
Riley, Alicia R.^, Hélène E Aschmann^, Ruijia Chen, Yea-Hung Chen, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Andrew C. Stokes, M. Maria Glymour, Mathew V Kiang. 2022. “Dynamics of racial disparities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. ( ^co-first authors)
Riley, Alicia R.^, Mathew V. Kiang^, Yea-Hung Chen, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, M. Maria Glymour. 2022. Recent Shifts in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality in the Vaccination Period in California. Journal of General Internal Medicine. ( ^co-first authors)
Riley, Alicia R., Yea-Hung Chen, Ellicott C. Matthay, M. Maria Glymour, Jacqueline M. Torres, Alicia Fernandez, and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo. 2021. “Excess Deaths among Latino People in California during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Social Science and Medicine - Population Health.
Riley, Alicia R., Daniel Collins, Jake Grumbach, Jacqueline Torres and Rita Hamad. 2021. “Association of US state policy orientation with adverse birth outcomes: a longitudinal analysis” J Epidemiol Community Health.
Maecken, Jana, Alicia R. Riley, and Maria Glymour. 2020. “Cross-National Differences in the Association Between Retirement and Memory Decline” The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. gbaa223.
Stuart, Forrest, Alicia R. Riley, and Hossein Pourreza. 2020. “A human-machine partnered approach for identifying social media signals of elevated traumatic grief in Chicago gang territories” PLOS ONE
Riley, Alicia R. 2020. “Advancing the Study of Health Inequality: Fundamental Causes as Systems of Exposure.” Social Science and Medicine - Population Health, Volume 10.
Riley, Alicia R. 2018. “Neighborhood Disadvantage, Residential Segregation, and Beyond—Lessons for Studying Structural Racism and Health.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 5(2): 357-365.
Selected Other Publications:
Riley, Alicia R. and M. Maria Glymour. “Social Class, Poverty, and COVID-19” in The Social Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Eds. Dustin T. Duncan, Ichiro Kawachi and Stephen S. Morse. Oxford University Press. Jan 25, 2024.
Riley, Alicia R. 2023. “Rethinking the quest for health equity in the era of climate crisis” American Journal of Public Health.
Riley, Alicia R. 2022. Contesting narratives of inevitability: Heterogeneity in Latino-white inequities in COVID-19. American Journal of Public Health.
Riley, Alicia R., Kate Duchowny and Ellicott C. Matthay. “Forget the debate over public health versus jobs – the same people suffer the most either way” The Conversation, April 19, 2021.
Riley, Alicia R. “The key to students returning to school is not the science - it is the resources” Cal Matters, Guest Commentary. October 13, 2020.
Riley, Alicia and Leticia Cazares. “Structural racism is shaping the Latino COVID-19 experience in San Diego County” The San Diego Union Tribune. Commentary. August 13, 2020.