Lindsay Kobayashi
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Global Public Health, Associate Director, Global Health Equity, School of Public Health and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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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.
- Westrick, Ashly C., Yu, Xuexin, Gross, Alden L., Wallner, Lauren P., Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2027. Duration of depressive symptoms prior to a cancer diagnosis and post-cancer memory function and decline: A longitudinal analysis of the US Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Geriatric Oncology 18(2):104653.
- Westrick, Ashly C., Wallner, Lauren P., Gross, Alden L., Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2026. Cross national comparison of memory function before and after a cancer diagnosis in the United States and England. Journal of Cancer Survivorship
- Gross, Alden L, Mani, Sneha S, David R Weir, Emily Briceno, Rentería, Miguel Arce, Nichols, Emma, Jones, Richard N, Manly, Jennifer M, Kenneth M Langa, Ikanga, Jean, Lee, Jinkook, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2026. Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP): What Makes an HCAP an HCAP? An Adaptive Architecture for Measuring Cognitive Aging Around the World. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 81(Supplement_1):S31–S43.
- Nichols, Emma, Gross, Alden L, Lindsay Kobayashi, Kenneth M Langa, Lee, Jinkook. 2026. The measurement of cognition in large-scale cross-national surveys: Lessons from the Health and Retirement International Network of Studies and the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 81(Supplement 2):S18–S30.
- Barry, Mikayla R., Sonneville, Kendrin R., Belinda Needham, Lindsay Kobayashi, Leung, Cindy W.. 2026. Household Food Insecurity Across Childhood and Weight Change Attempts in Early Adolescence: Findings From a Nationally Representative Cohort of U.S. Youth. Current Developments in Nutrition 10(4):107554.
- Guo, Muqi, Mani, Sneha Sarah, Gross, Alden L., Karvonen-Gutierrez, Carrie A., Reeves, Alexis, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2026. Age at natural menopause and cognitive aging in U.S. women: Educational attainment as a modifiable resilience factor. Maturitas 207:108884.
- Cho, Tsai-Chin, Westrick, Ashly C, Adar, Sara D, Hwajung Choi, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2026. Memory trajectories before and after a negative wealth shock, the United States Health and Retirement Study, 1998-2020. American Journal of Epidemiology 195(3):728-735.
- Nasya Tan, James Russell Pike, Kathleen E. Bainbridge, Michael M. McKee, Lindsay Kobayashi, Philippa J Clarke. 2026. Hearing Difficulty, Health Literacy, and Poorer Health Among Adults in the United States: 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Study. Ear & Hearing
- Brotzman, Laura E., Kullgren, Jeffrey T., Lindsay Kobayashi, Mary Rose Janevic, Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J.. 2026. "Life Expectancy Means More Than Just Your Heart Beating": Older Adults Vary in Their Conceptualizations of Life Expectancy Estimates. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
- Emily Briceno, Bassil, Darina T, Khobragade, Pranali, Ngugi, Anthony, El Bejjani, Martine, Ochieng, Eric, Mejia-Arango, Silvia, Douhou, Salima, Kulisewa, Kazione, Arce Rentería, Miguel, Gross, Alden L, Jones, Richard N, Lee, Jinkook, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2025. Recommended best practices for construct-centered adaptation of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 81(Supplement_1):S44–S54.
