My research interests are focused on: (a) the social determinants of health – including macro-level determinants (e.g. income inequality, social capital), neighborhood contextual influences on health, and psychosocial predictors of cardiovascular disease (e.g. job stress, social networks/support, anxiety/depression); (b) analyses of socioeconomic and racial disparities in health; (c) prospective studies of healthy aging and quality of life; and (d) smoking and health.

Kawachi I, Colditz GA, Ascheiro A, Rimm EB, Giovannucci E, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC. A prospective study of social networks in relation to total mortality and cardiovascular disease incidence in men. J Epidemiol Comm Health 1996 Jun;50(3):245-51. [abstract]

Kawachi I, Colditz GA, Speizer FE, Manson JE, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, Hennekens CH. A prospective study of passive smoking and coronary heart disease in women. Circulation 1997 May 20;95(10):2374-9. [abstract]

Amick BC III, Kawachi I, Coakley EH, Lerner D, Levine S, Colditz GA. Relationship of job strain and iso-strain to health status in a cohort of women in the United States. Scand J Work Environ Health. 1998 Feb;24(1):54-61. [abstract]

Achat H, Kawachi I, Levine S, Berkey C, Coakley E, Colditz G. Social networks, stress and health-related quality of life. Qual Life Res. 1998 Dec;7(8):735-50. [abstract]

Coakley EH, Kawachi I, Manson JE, Speizer FE, Willett WC, Colditz GA. Lower levels of physical functioning are associated with higher body weight among middle-aged and older women. Int J Obesity Relat Metab Disord 1998 Oct;22(10):958-65. [abstract]

Fine JT, Colditz GA, Coakley EH, Moseley G, Manson JE, Willett WC, Kawachi I. A prospective study of weight change and health-related quality of life in women. JAMA. 1999 Dec 8;282(22):2136-42. [abstract]

Cheng Y, Kawachi I, Coakley EH, Schwartz J. Colditz G. Association between psychosocial work characteristics and health functioning in American women: a prospective study. Br Med J 2000 May 27;320(7247):1432-6. [abstract]

Kahn RS, Wise PH, Kennedy BP, Kawachi I. State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: Cross-sectional national survey. Br Med J 2000 Nov 25;321(7272):1311-5. [abstract]

Lochner K, Pamuk ER, Makuc D, Kennedy BP, Kawachi I. State-level income inequality and individual mortality risk: A prospective, multi-level study. Am J Public Health 2001 Mar;91(3):385-91. [abstract]

Eng PM, Rimm EB, Fitzmaurice G, Kawachi I. Social ties and change in social ties in relation to subsequent total and cause-specific mortality and coronary heart disease incidence in men. Am J Epidemiol. 2002 Apr 15;155(8):700-9. [abstract]

Eng PM. Fitzmaurice G, Kubzansky LD, Rimm EB, Kawachi I. Anger expression and risk of stroke and coronary heart disease among male health professionals. Psychosom Med 2003 Jan-Feb;65(1):100-10. [abstract]

Lee S, Colditz GA, Berkman LF, Chapman Walsh D, Kawachi I. Caregiving and risk of coronary heart disease in US women: a prospective study. Am J Prev Med 2003 Feb;24(2):113-9. [abstract]

Lee S, Colditz GA, Berkman LF, Kawachi I. Prospective study of job insecurity and coronary heart disease in US women. Ann Epidemiol 2004 Jan;14(1):24-30. [abstract]

Kroenke C, Hankinson SE, Schernhammer E, Colditz GA, Kawachi I, Holmes MA. Caregiving stress, endogenous sex steroid hormone levels, and breast cancer incidence. Am J Epidemiol. 2004 Jun 1;159(11):1019-27. [abstract]

Schernhammer ES, Hankinson SE. Rosner B, Kroenke CH, Willett WC, Colditz GA, Kawachi I. Job stress and breast cancer risk: The Nurses’ Health Study. Am J Epidemiol 2004 Dec 1;160(11):1079-86. [abstract]

Cradock AL, Kawachi I, Colditz GA, Hannon C, Melly SJ, Wiecha JL, Gortmaker SL. Playground safety and access in Boston neighborhoods. Am J Prev Med 2005 May;28(4):357-63. [abstract]

Albert CM, Chae CU, Rexrode KM, Cook NR, Manson JE, Kawachi I. Phobic anxiety and risk of coronary heart disease and sudden cardiac death among women. Circulation 2005 Feb 1;111(4):480-7. [abstract]

Kawachi I, Daniels N, Robinson D. Health disparities by race and class: Why both matter. Health Affairs 2005 Mar-Apr;24(2):343-52. [abstract]

Iribarren C, Tolstykh I, Somkin C, Ackerson LM, Brown TT, Scheffler R, Syme L, Kawachi I. Sex and racial/ethnic disparities in outcomes after acute myocardial infarction: a cohort study among members of a large integrated health care delivery system in northern California. Arch Intern Med. 2005 Oct 10;165(18):2105-13. [abstract]

Avendano M, Kawachi I, van Lenthe F, Boshuizen H, Mackenbach JP, van den Bos GAM, Fay ME, Berkman LF. Socioeconomic status and stroke incidence in the US elderly: The role of risk factors in the EPESE Study. Stroke 2006 Jun;37(6):1368-73. Epub 2006 May 11. [abstract]

Books:

1. Berkman Lisa F., Ichiro Kawachi (eds). Social Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press 2000 (5th printing).

2. Kawachi Ichiro, Bruce P. Kennedy, Richard G.Wilkinson (eds). Income Inequality and Health: A Reader. New York: The New Press 1999.

3. Daniels Norman, Bruce Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi. Is Inequality Bad for Our Health? (foreword by Amartya Sen). Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

4. Kawachi Ichiro, Bruce P. Kennedy. The Health of Nations. New York: The New Press, 2002. Paperback edition with new Afterword published 2006.

5. Kawachi Ichiro, Lisa F. Berkman (eds). Neighborhoods and Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

6. Kawachi Ichiro, Sarah Wamala (eds). Globalization and Health. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

7. Kawachi Ichiro, S.V. Subramanian, Daniel Kim (eds). Social Capital and Health. New York: Springer (forthcoming).