Wei Xu, PhD

果冻影院

Assistant Professor

Locations

MEB M1204

Contact Information

Education

PhD, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MS, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Biography

Dr. Wei Xu an assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Social Sciences in the Institute for Health and Equity. As a spatial epidemiologist, Dr. Xu’s work primarily focuses on the relationship between place-based factors, including physical, built, and social environments, and health and aging over the life course. By integrating social determinants of health and life course epidemiology frameworks, Dr. Xu's primary research projects leverage the linkage between residential histories of a WI population-representative cohort and long-term neighborhood conditions to examine the dynamic effects of neighborhood structural disadvantage over the life course on epigenetic aging and related inequalities. On age-related clinical outcomes, Dr. Xu investigates how health behaviors, particularly physical activity, and neighborhood environments may interact to influence one’s risk of incident dementias and subtypes. Recently, Dr. Xu's work has extended to examine the systemic inequities in access to long-term care resources and their consequences for the utilization, quality, and health outcomes among older adults in WI, including those with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Research Interests

Spatial epidemiology
Geographic information systems
Health behaviors
Neighborhood effects
Epigenetics of aging
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Long-term care services

Non-Discrimination Statement
The 果冻影院 (果冻影院) is committed to fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students, as well as ensuring equal educational opportunity, employment, and access to services, programs, and activities, without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, or military status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the 果冻影院 community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law or treated adversely or retaliated against based upon a protected characteristic. 果冻影院’s policy as well as federal and state laws and regulations prohibit unlawful discrimination and harassment.