Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins Global Centre for Childhood Obesity, Bloomberg School of Public Health W1741, 615 Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD-21231 RESEARCH INTERESTS Substantive Interests: Contextual effects on health and obesity, conceptualization and measurement of the neighborhood environment, neighborhood effects on health Mathematical Demography and Statistical Methods: Life table and decomposition methods, multilevel models for hierarchically and non-nested data, spatial analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation methods POSITION 2012-2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity, Bloomberg School of Public Health EDUCATION 2012 Ph.D. Sociology and Demography (Certificate in Quantitative Methods) 2007 Masters of Arts, Sociology and Demography 2005 University of Geneva, Switzerland Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts, Economic and Social History (Historical Demography) 2004 Smith College, Northampton, MA Diploma in American Studies (non-degree) PUBLICATIONS Claudia Nau and Glenn Firebaugh (forthcoming). A new method for decomposing group differences in the variability of lifespans, Demography. Robert Schoen and Claudia Nau (2009). Intrinsically dynamic multistate models, Mathematical Population Studies 16(4): 231 247. Robert Schoen and Claudia Nau (2008). A behaviorally-based approach to measuring inequality. Demographic Research 19:1727-1748. WORK UNDER REVIEW Molly Martin, Michelle Frisco, Claudia Nau, Kristin Burnett, Social stratification and adolescent overweight in the United States: A consideration of knowledge and financial resources in family and school context, (R&R, Social Science & Medicine). Claudia Nau and Stephen A. Matthews, Do social relations and SES matter for health behaviors among the elderly? (under review).
REPORT Stephen Matthews and Claudia Nau, Neighborhood Food Environment, Diet and Health: Quasi Experimental Study, Report on the baseline & follow-up survey, Penn State, 2011 (internal report). WORK IN PROGRESS Claudia Nau, How wrong is wrong? Assessing the effects of measuring neighborhood at the wrong scale of the census geography, (working paper, available upon request). Claudia Nau, Differences in effects of neighborhood structural disadvantage on depressive symptoms in children and their caregivers (working paper, available upon request). Claudia Nau and Peter Muennig, Why seeing your neighbors can be a bad thing, (working title, analysis stage). Stephen Matthews and Claudia Nau, Store switching after the introduction of a grocery store into a store deprived Philadelphia neighborhood, (working title, analysis stage). GRANT IN PREPARATION Glenn Firebaugh and Claudia Nau (collaborator), Factors promoting and slowing mortality compression among Americans: Findings based on a new method for decomposing inequality in age at death, to be submitted February 2012 to the National Institutes of Aging. AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2011 Winner Student Paper Award, category working paper, Department of Sociology, Penn State ($250) 2010 Dissertation Improvement Grant, College of the Liberal Arts ($3250) 2010 Faculty and Alumni Endowment, Department of Sociology, Penn State ($250) 2008-2009 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Quantitative Social Science Initiative, Penn State (2 semesters of financial support) 2004 Demography Award, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State University ($2000) 2003 Scholarship for one year of study at Smith College, Smith College ($40,000) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Claudia Nau, Differences in effects of neighborhood structural disadvantage on depressive symptoms in children and their caregivers, Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011. Claudia Nau, A census data based simulation experiment on the effects of modeling neighborhood effects on a health outcome at the wrong scale of the census geography, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington DC, April 2011.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS cont. Claudia Nau, How wrong is wrong? Measuring the "neighborhood" using different scales of census units, Poster presented at the Penn State Graduate Exhibition, Penn State, March 2011. Claudia Nau and Stephen Matthews, Do Social Relations and SES Matter for Health Behaviors among the Elderly?, Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2010. Molly Martin, Michelle Frisco, Claudia Nau, Kristin Burnett, Social Stratification and Adolescent Weight: The Role of Financial and Human Capital in the Family and School Context, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2010. Claudia Nau and Wayne Osgood, Peer-groups and the Risk of Obesity in Adolescents, Poster presented at the Fall Symposium of the Penn State Obesity and Diabetes Institute, Penn State University, October 2009. Claudia Nau and Glenn Firebaugh, "How are Causes of Death Shaping the Differences in Population Health Inequality Between the United States and Sweden?, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Detroit, April 2008. Kristina Zeiser, Molly Martin, Claudia Nau, Michelle Frisco, Stressful Life Events and Adolescent Weight Trajectories, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, August 2008. Claudia Nau and Jeffrey Beemer, Pathocenosis, Insult Accumulation and Ecological Niche, Identifying Mortality Dynamics in a 19 th century Massachusetts Town, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2003. INVITED TALKS Claudia Nau, Measuring Neighbourhood: When can you trust your census tract?, Changing American Neighbourhoods and Communities working group, Penn State, November 2011. Claudia Nau, A brief travel guide to decomposition methods, Introductory talk to the Annual Graduate Student Methodology Workshop, Population Research Institute, Penn State, May 2011. Claudia Nau, How wrong is wrong? Assessing the effects of measuring neighborhood at the wrong scale of the census geography, Colloquium for Student Paper Award Winners, Sociology Department Penn State, May 2011. Claudia Nau and Glenn Firebaugh. A New Method for Decomposing Group Differences in the Variability of Individual Lifespans, Presentation, Penn State Population Research Institute Demographic Methods Focus Workshop, Penn State University, February 2011. Claudia Nau, An Introduction to R, Penn State Quantitative Social Science Initiative, October 2008.
COMPETITIVE WORKSHOPS 2011 Spatial Regression Analysis, Advanced Spatial Analysis Training Program for Population Scientists, Penn State, June 19 th -24 th. 2010 Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics, (non-competitive) Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI, June 14 th -18 th. 2009 Multilevel Modelling and Spatial Analysis, Advanced Spatial Analysis Training Program for Population Scientists, Penn State, June 21 st -26 th. 2008 Geographically Weighted Regressions, Advanced Spatial Analysis Training Program for Population Scientists June 1 st -6 th. 2007 Mathematical Demography with Application to Humans and Nonhuman Species, Joint Summer School IUSSP and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, August 20 th -28 th. 2006 2 nd Stanford Workshop in Formal Demography, Stanford University, August 7 th -18 th. TEACHING Summer 2009 Instructor Soc 023, Population and Policy Issues, Penn State. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Departmental 2008-2012 Student methodology workshop organizational committee 2011-2012 Minority opportunity through school transformation committee 2010-2011 Faculty recruitment committee, Committee for evaluation of endowed lectureship policies, Student recruitment organizational committee. Reviewer American Journal of Preventive Medicine MEMBERSHIP American Sociological Association: Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Methods and Public Sociology Section. Population Association of America ANALYTICAL SKILLS Programming/Statistical Packages: R, Stata, MLwiN, ArcGIS, GeoDA, GWR, SAS, SPSS Methods: Multilevel modelling of hierarchically and non-nested data, spatial analysis, geographically weighted regression, Monte Carlo simulation methods, beginning user of Bayesian Statistics, demographic methods, in particular, life table and decomposition methods. OTHER SKILLS Languages: German, English and French (fluent), Spanish (beginning intermediate).
REFERENCES Dr. Stephen Matthews Associate Professor Sociology, Anthropology and Demography 507 Oswald Tower Phone: 814 863 9721 Email: matthews@pop.psu.edu Dr. Glenn Firebaugh Roy C. Buck Professor of American Institutions and Professor of Sociology and Demography 902 Oswald Tower Phone: 814 865 5001 Email: firebaug@pop.psu.edu Dr. Barrett Lee Professor of Sociology and Demography 517 Oswald Tower Phone: 814 863 7430 Email: bal6@psu.edu