Jessica Danielle Faul
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BIO
Jessica Faul is a Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. She is the Co-Director of the Health and Retirement Study, the largest study of Americans over age 50 in the United States. She is also the co-director of the Biospecimen Lab at ISR, and is affiliated with the Michigan Center on Demography and Aging (MiCDA), the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), and the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center. Dr. Faul’s research integrates biological, genetic and social science data to examine social, behavioral, and biological predictors of health and aging. Dr. Faul currently co-leads the NIA-sponsored Biomarker Network which aims to develop an interdisciplinary group of scientists dedicated to improved measurement of biological risk for late life health outcomes in large population-representative samples.
- Kabeto, Mohammed U., Sharma, Manoj, Ford, Dawn, Jessica Danielle Faul. 2026. Association between Allostatic Load and Incident Dementia, and Race/Ethic Disparities in the Association in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Adar, Sara D., Zhang, Boya, D'Souza, Jennifer, Szpiro, Adam A., Gangaram, Anjelica, Weuve, Jennifer, Mendes de Leon, Carlos F., Keller, Kayleigh P., Pedde, Meredith, Lee, Jinkook, Kaufman, Joel D., Jessica Danielle Faul, Kenneth M Langa, Hirth, Richard A.. 2026. Air pollution predicts healthcare spending among older adults in the United States. Environment International :110123.
- Hernandez, Raymond, Stone, Arthur A, Zelinski, Elizabeth, Meijer, Erik, Galama, Titus, Jessica Danielle Faul, Kapteyn, Arie, Junghaenel, Doerte U, Jin, Haomiao, Gatz, Margaret, Lee, Pey-Jiuan, Maupin, Daniel, Gao, Hongxin, Orriens, Bart, Schneider, Stefan. 2025. Evidence Supports the Validity and Reliability of Response Times from a Brief Survey as a Digital Biomarker for Processing Speed in a Large Panel Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 194(11):3208-3216.
- Lisha Lin, Wei Zhao, Zheng Li, Scott M. Ratliff, Yi Zhe Wang, Colter Mitchell, Jessica Danielle Faul, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Kira S Birditt, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Poly-epigenetic scores for cardiometabolic risk factors interact with demographic factors and health behaviors in older US Adults. Epigenetics 20(1):2469205.
- Roselli, Carolina, ..., Jessica Danielle Faul, Wei Zhao, Jennifer Ann Smith, Et al.. 2025. Meta-analysis of genome-wide associations and polygenic risk prediction for atrial fibrillation in more than 180,000 cases. Nature Genetics 57:539-547.
- Crimmins, Eileen M, Hernandez, Belinda, Potter, Claire, Kim, Jung Ki, Higgins-Chen, Albert, Kenny, Rose Anne, O'Halloran, Aisling M, McGuinness, Bernadette, Smyth, Laura J, Hill, Claire, Fiorito, Giovanni, Jessica Danielle Faul, McKnight, Amy Jayne, McCrory, Cathal. 2025. Epigenetic Clocks Relate to Four Age-Related Health Outcomes Similarly across Three Countries. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 80(7):glaf036.
- Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas, ..., Wei Zhao, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, et al.. 2025. Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals. Nature
- van Alten, Sjoerd, Domingue, Benjamin W., Jessica Danielle Faul, Galama, Titus, Marees, Andries T.. 2025. Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS increases SNP effect sizes and heritability estimates. Nature Communications 16(1):1-11.
- Opsasnick, Lauren A., Wei Zhao, Schmitz, Lauren L., Ratliff, Scott M., Jessica Danielle Faul, Zhou, Xiang, Belinda Needham, Jennifer Ann Smith. 2025. Depressive symptoms partially mediate the relationship between psychosocial factors and epigenetic age acceleration in a multi-racial/ethnic sample of older adults. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health 45:100994.
- Yuelin He, Jessica Danielle Faul, Kate Duchowny, Chihua Li, Rebecca Stebbins, Grace Noppert. 2025. Health impact of a hypothetical intervention on immune burden of cytomegalovirus (CMV) among older adults in the US: a prospective analysis of the Health and Retirement Study Cohort. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 47:101122.
