Justin Denney is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and a graduate research assistant in the Population Program within the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Justin's current work uses advanced quantitative methods to explore the social, economic, and cultural contributors of health behaviors and health outcomes, focusing on sociological, demographic, and epidemiological explanations. As a health researcher with sociological and demographic training, Justin is principally interested in identifying individual and structural conditions that jointly contribute to health and mortality inequalities. To this end, Justin's collaborations with sociologists, demographers, criminologists, and economists have led to published articles in sociology, criminology, and public health journals. In his dissertation work, Justin focuses on social support mechanisms that associate with the risk of suicide mortality for adults in the United States, and hopes this and future works will inform health and mortality policy and ultimately lead to healthier populations. Recently, Justin accepted a position as an Assistant Professor with Rice University and will be joining the Department of Sociology at Rice in the Fall of 2010.
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