Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Global Public Health, School of Public Health and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Dr. Kobayashi’s research focuses on the social epidemiology of cognitive aging from a global perspective. She investigates social and economic life course influences on cognitive aging, primarily using data from internationally harmonized longitudinal studies of aging, including older populations of the United States, England, India, China, Mexico, and South Africa. At the University of Michigan, she is a member of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), the Rogel Cancer Center, and the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. In recognition of her contributions to the social epidemiology of cognitive aging in rural South Africa, she is an Honorary Senior Researcher at the MRC/Wits Rural Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Immunosenescence, socioeconomic disadvantage and dementia in the US aging populationFunded Research
Publications
- Lindsay Kobayashi, Brendan Q. O'Shea, Caroline Wixom, Richard N. Jones, Kenneth M Langa, David R Weir, Jinkook Lee, Rebeca Wong, Alden L. Gross. 2024. Lifetime occupational skill and later-life cognitive function among older adults in the United States, Mexico, India, and South Africa. Alzheimer's & Dementia 20(3):1933-1943.
- Anam M. Khan, Paul Lin, Neil Kamdar, Elham Mahmoudi,, Kenzie Latham Mintus, Lindsay Kobayashi, Philippa J Clarke. 2024. Location Matters: The Role of the Neighborhood Environment for Incident Cardiometabolic Disease in Adults Aging With Physical Disability. American Journal of Health Promotion 38(5):633-640.
- Zhang, Yuan S, O'Shea, Brendan, Yu, Xuexin, Cho, Tsai-Chin, Zhang, Kelvin Pengyuan, Kler, Jasdeep, Kenneth M Langa, David R Weir, Gross, Alden L, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. Educational Attainment and Later-life Cognitive Function in High- and Middle-income Countries: Evidence from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 79(5):gbae005.
- Lindsay Kobayashi, Richard N. Jones, Emily M. Briceño, Miguel Arce Rentería, Yuan Zhang, Erik Meijer, Kenneth M Langa, Jinkook Lee, Alden L. Gross. 2024. Cross-national comparisons of later-life cognitive function using data from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP): Considerations and recommended best practices. Alzheimer's & Dementia 20(3):2273-2281.
- Westrick, Ashly C., Zhu, Peiyao, Friese, Christopher R., Langa, Kenneth M., Kobayashi, Lindsay C., Westrick, Ashly C., Zhu, Peiyao, Friese, Christopher R., Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. The association of pre-cancer diagnosis cardiovascular risk factors with memory aging after a cancer diagnosis, overall and by race/ethnicity. Journal of Cancer Survivorship
- Westrick, Ashly C., Ospina-Romero, Monica, Philippa J Clarke, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. Does neighborhood socioeconomic status alter memory change associated with a cancer diagnosis? Preliminary evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 33(7):953-960.
- Yu, Xuexin, Gill, Audra, Chakraborty, Rishika, Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W , Wagner, Ryan G., Bassil, Darina T., Farrell, Meagan T, Tollman, Stephen M., Kahn, Kathleen, Rosenberg, Molly S., Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. Mid-life household food insecurity and subsequent memory function and rate of decline in rural South Africa, 2004-2022. Neuroepidemiology
- Higgins Tejera, César, Erin Bakshis Ware, Margaret Takako Hicken, Lindsay Kobayashi, Wang, Herong, Blostein, Freida, Zawistowski, Matthew, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Bakulski, Kelly M.. 2024. The mediating role of systemic inflammation and moderating role of racialization in disparities in incident dementia. Communications Medicine 4(1):1-14.
- Yu, Xuexin, Laura Beth Zahodne, Gross, Alden L, Needham,Belinda L, Kenneth M Langa, Cho, Tsai-Chin, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. Could differential under-reporting of loneliness between men and women bias the gender-specific association between loneliness duration and rate of memory decline? A probabilistic bias analysis of effect modification. American Journal of Epidemiology
- Ashly C. Westrick, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2023. The association of health behaviors prior to cancer diagnosis and functional aging trajectories after diagnosis: Longitudinal cohort study of middle-aged and older US cancer survivors. Preventive Medicine Reports 31:102083.
- Tejera, César Higgins , Erin Bakshis Ware, Lindsay Kobayashi, Fu,Mingzhou, Margaret Takako Hicken, Zawistowski, Matthew, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Bakulski, Kelly M.. 2023. Decomposing interaction and mediating effects of race/ethnicity and circulating blood levels of cystatin C on cognitive status in the United States health and retirement study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 17
- Cho, Tsai-Chin, Yu, Xuexin, Gross, Alden L, Zhang, Yuan S, Lee, Jinkook, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2023. Negative wealth shocks in later life and subsequent cognitive function in older adults in China, England, Mexico, and the USA, 2012-18: a population-based, cross-nationally harmonised, longitudinal study. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 4(9):e461-e469.
- Boya Zhang, Jennifer Weuve, Kenneth M Langa, Jennifer D’Souza, Adam Szpiro, Jessica Danielle Faul, Carlos Mendes de Leon, Jiaqi Gao, Joel D. Kaufman, Lianne Sheppard, Jinkook Lee, Lindsay Kobayashi, Richard Hirth, Sara D. Adar. 2023. Particulate Air Pollution and Incident Dementia in the US. JAMA Internal Medicine 183(10):1080-1089.
- Gross, Alden L, Li, Chihua, Briceño, Emily M, Rentería, Miguel Arce , Jones, Richard N, Kenneth M Langa, Manly, Jennifer J, Nichols, Emma, David R Weir, Wong, Rebeca, Berkman, Lisa, Lee, Jinkook, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2023. Harmonisation of later-life cognitive function across national contexts: results from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocols. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 4(10):e573-e583.
- Xuexin Yu, Tsai-Chin Cho, Ashly C. Westrick, Chen Chen, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2023. Association of cumulative loneliness with all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults in the United States, 1996 to 2019. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(51):e2306819120.
- Miguel Arce Rentería, Emily M Briceño, Diefei Chen, Joseph Saenz, Jet M. J. Vonk, Lindsay Kobayashi, Chris Gonzalez, Rich Jones, Rebeca Wong, Kenneth M Langa, David R Weir, Jennifer J Manly, Alden L Gross. 2023. Harmonized Memory and Language Function in the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Across the United States and Mexico. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 29(s1):87-88.
- Miguel Arce Rentería, Emily M Briceño, Diefei Chen, Joseph Saenz, Lindsay Kobayashi, Christopher Gonzalez, Jet M. J. Vonk, Richard N. Jones, Jennifer J. Manly, Rebeca Wong, David R Weir, Kenneth M Langa, Alden L. Gross. 2023. Memory and language cognitive data harmonization across the United States and Mexico. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 15(3):e12478.
- Ella Cohn-Schwartz, Jessica Marie Finlay, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2022. Perceptions of societal ageism and declines in subjective memory during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from US adults aged ≥55 years. Journal of Social Issues 78(4):924-938.