Blakelee Kemp
Assistant Professor
Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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CPEH 386
Lincoln NE 68588-0236 - Phone
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402-472-2957 On-campus 2-2957
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bkemp@unl.edu
Dr. Kemp’s work focuses on explaining how health inequalities develop over the life course and across geographic contexts with the goal of identifying important levers for eliminating these inequities. She is trained as a social scientist, gerontologist, and population health scholar who uses large secondary datasets and quantitative methods to 1) explore how early life events and experiences (e.g., poverty, abuse) have enduring consequences for the health of mid and later life adults and 2) identify the social and political contexts (e.g., residential characteristics, state policies) during childhood and adulthood that are beneficial (or harmful) to the health of mid and later life adults.
Dr. Kemp earned a dual-title Ph.D. in Sociology and Gerontology from Purdue University and spent two years as a post-doc in the Aging Studies Institute at Syracuse University.
For a complete list of publications please visit Dr. Kemp’s Google Scholar page.
Dr. Kemp currently supervises student research in the program area of Global Family Health and Wellbeing .
Areas of Expertise:
Health inequalities
Aging and the life course
Social inequality
Quantitative methods