Biography

Kathleen Mullan Harris is the James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on social inequality and health with particular interests in health disparities, sociogenomics, and life course processes. Dr. Harris is Director and Principal Investigator of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) in which she is leading multidisciplinary research on the social, environmental, behavioral, biological and genetic linkages in developmental and health trajectories from adolescence into adulthood. Her publications appear in a wide range of disciplinary journals including demography, genetics, family, epidemiology, biology, public policy, survey methodology, and medicine. Dr. Harris is past president of the Population Association of America and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania.

3-005 - Genomics and Development Across the Life Course

Session Type: Invited Symposium

Sub Unit

• Invited Program

Chair

• Colter Mitchell, University of Michigan

Individual Presentations

• Lifecourse Gene-Environment Interaction - Presenting Author: Kathleen Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Genetic and Environmental Influences on Broad Psychopathology Across the Lifecourse - Presenting Author: Arianna Gard, University of Michigan

• Copy Number Variation as a Source of Genetic Variation and Child Behavior in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study - Presenting Author: Kalsea J. Koss, University of Georgia; Lisa Schneper, Princeton University; Colter Mitchell, University of Michigan; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University; Sara McLanahan, Princeton University; Daniel Notterman, Princeton University