Yu-An Chen

Research Interests: Health Disparities, Medical Sociology, Aging and Life Course, Social Inequality, Environmental Sociology, Quantitative Method

Education: 
BA: Bio-industry Communication and Development (Predecessor: Agricultural Extension), 2010, National Taiwan University
MSS: Bio-industry Communication and Development (Predecessor: Agricultural Extension), 2014, National Taiwan University

Bio: Yu-An Chen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University at Buffalo. She is interested in investigating how socioeconomic status as well as social and built environment shape health outcomes and pro-environmental behaviors. Her dissertation focuses on the long-term effects of wealth on physical and mental health as well as the mechanisms underlying those relationships among middle-aged and older adults. In other research, She is studying how overweight and weight perception vary by gender and neighborhood characteristics.

Publications:
Smiley, Kevin T., Lauren Clay, Ashley Ross and Yu-An Chen. 2022. “Multi-scalar and Multi-dimensional Conceptions of Social Capital and Mental Health Impacts After Disaster: The case of Hurricane Harvey.” Disasters 46: 473-498.

Smiley, Kevin T., Yu-An Chen, and Wanyun Shao. 2022. “Being Green in a Green Capital: Assessing Drivers of Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Copenhagen.” Cities 122: 103538.

Email: ychen286@buffalo.edu