Jason Boardman
Professor • Director of the Health & Society Program • Institute of Behavioral Science
boardman@colorado.edu
303-492-2146

KTCH 312

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Office Hours:ÌýMonday 2:30pm-3:30pm

Biography

Jason Boardman's research focuses on the social determinants of health with an Ìýemphasis on the gene-environment interactions related to health behaviors.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in statistics, social demography, and the sociology of race and ethnicity. Professor Boardman lives in Â鶹¹ÙÍø with his wife Alison, their two children Anya and Izak, and their dog Marlowe.

Publications

  • Assortative Mating and Differential Fertility by Phenotype and Genotype across the 20th Century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Forthcoming.
  • Polygenic influence on educational attainment: New evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. ÌýAERA Open. 1(3): 1-13. doi: 10.1177/2332858415599972.
  • What can genes tell us about the relationship between education and health? Social Science & Medicine 127:171-180.
  • Replication and robustness of genome-wide association studies for behavioral traits 2014. Psychological Science 25(11):1975-1986. PMID: 25287667
  • Polygenic risk predicts obesity in both white and black young adults. PLOS ONE 9(7):e101596. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101596
  • Genetic and educational assortative mating among US adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(22):7996-8000.
  • Defining the environment in gene–environment research: lessons from social epidemiology. American Journal of Public Health. 103(S1): S64–S72.
  • Genetic sensitivity to peer behaviors: 5HTTLPR, smoking, and alcohol consumption. Journal of Health & Social Behavior 54(1):92-108.
  • How social and genetic factors predict friendship networks. 2012. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(43):17377-17381.