Life Course Approaches to the Causes of Health Disparities

Nancy L Jones¹, Stephen E Gilman¹, Tina L Cheng¹+3

• ¹Nancy L. Jones is with Community Health and Population Sciences, Division of Extramural Scientific Programs, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Stephen E. Gilman is with Social and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Intramural Population Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, and Department of Mental Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Tina L. Cheng is with Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore, MD. Stacy S. Drury is with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Brain Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. Carl V. Hill is with the Office of Special Populations, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health. Arline T. Geronimus is with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Nancy Jones is also a Guest Editor for this supplement issue.