College of Health Sciences and Professions
Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Faculty
Adrianne Frech
Associate Professor
Cleveland Campus
Social Medicine
Education
- Postdoctoral fellow, Rice University, 2009-2011
- Sociology (PhD, MA), The Ohio State University, 2009
- Sociology/Anthropology (BA), Denison University, 2003
Areas of Expertise
- Health across the life course
- Unemployment, workforce experiences and health
- Gender disparities in health
- Social determinants of pain
Biography
I use nationally representative data to study the ways workforce experiences, educational attainment, and other measures of social standing are associated with health, particularly at midlife. My research focuses primarily on how these variables contribute to gendered health disparities and how these variables inform when health disparities emerge across the life course.