BIO

Dr. Reed DeAngelis is an interdisciplinary population health scientist. He joined the Survey Research Center in 2024 as research faculty in the Landscapes of Population Health program. Before this, he completed doctoral training in social demography and biosocial methods at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Carolina Population Center, as well as postdoctoral training in gerontology at the Duke University School of Medicine.

His research investigates the sociohistorical origins of population health disparities in the United States, with an emphasis on historically marginalized racial-ethnic and socioeconomic groups. He also studies how different groups of people exercise agency to cope with chronic social stress, especially through religious/spiritual involvement and other social support mechanisms. His studies use advanced statistical methods to analyze multilevel datasets comprising survey, biomarker, and contextual data recorded across the life course.

His award-winning work is published in top journals in the fields of demography, sociology, epidemiology, population health, and the social science of religion. His research has been covered in news outlets like New York Times, Newsweek, NBC News, and Psychology Today. His work is also cited in lawsuits and other policy documents concerning racially motivated censorship and police violence.