Chloe E. Bird, PhD, is a Senior Sociologist at RAND, Professor of Sociology at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Associate Editor of Women’s Health Issues. Her research focuses on assessing the determinants of gender and racial/ethnic differences in the physical and mental health of individuals and in the health care they receive. She is particularly interested in determining how social and physical characteristics of neighborhoods contribute to health disparities. She has led numerous NIH funded studies on gender and racial/ethnic differences in health and health care and on neighborhood effects on health.  Her current work uses data on biological markers to examine how neighborhood effects get under the skin and whether and how they are linked to incident cardiovascular disease and increased mortality risk.   In her book, Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choice and Social Policies, she and coauthor Patricia Rieker integrate social and biological models to improve understanding of how differences in men’s and women’s lives contribute to differences in their health. 

Expertise: Dual Earner Families, Health and Wellbeing/Wellness, Resiliency and Stress, Work-Family Conflict, Work-Family Spillover, Work-Family Balance, Work/Life integration.