Jennifer Stuber

Ph.D. 2002, Yale University. Social stigma, discrimination and social status, health disparities.

Department: School of Social Work
Position: Assistant Professor
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Phone: 206-616-3874
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Research Summary:

Stuber’s research interests are in stigma and prejudice as social processes and the role these processes play in the production of poor health, health disparities and in some cases improved health (as is the case with smoking-related stigmatization). Stuber completed her dissertation on the issue of why so many low-income eligible families do not participate in mean-tested government assistance for which they are eligible focusing on the so-called welfare stigma. This study was based on primary data she collected in 10 states from 1,500 low-income persons. She wrote an original instrument to assess stigma along with other barriers to program participation. This work was widely published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, in the American Journal of Public Health and in Social Science and Medicine. During her post-doctoral work, Stuber completed a study on smoking-related stigmatization based on an RDD telephone sample to investigate whether stigma is an important unrecognized factor in tobacco cessation and to assess if there are counterproductive consequences (e.g., lying about one’s smoking status) to policies and strategies based on promoting the social unacceptability of the behaviour, which stigmatizes smokers. She is also the editor for a Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine on Stigma, Discrimination, Prejudice and Health. Stuber also has an interest in psychiatric epidemiology and in mental health policy. She’s been involved in several studies assessing the impact of community disasters on the mental health of populations and the services needed to address wide-spread trauma.

Stuber is currently working on two major NIH grants one aimed at studying mental health related stigmatization in the Asian Pacific Islander population, the other, an extension of her previous work on tobacco-related stigmatization. Stuber is also a co-investigator on a project investigating the causes and consequences of mental illness related stigmatization for persons with schizophrenia.

Recent Publications:

Link, B.; Castille, D. M.; Stuber, J., (2008), Stigma and coercion in the context of outpatient treatment for people with mental illnesses, Social science & medicine., 67: 3, 409.

Stuber, J.; Galea, S.; Link, B. G., (2008), Smoking and the emergence of a stigmatized social status, Social science & medicine., 67: 3, 420.

Stuber, J.; Meyer, I.; Link, B., (2008), Stigma, prejudice, discrimination and health, Social science & medicine., 67: 3, 351.

Ahern, J.; Stuber, J.; Galea, S., (2007), Stigma, Discrimination and the Health of Illicit Drug Users, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 88: 2, 188-196.

Bayer, R.; Stuber, J., (2006), Tobacco Control, Stigma, and Public Health: Rethinking the Relations, American Journal of Public Health, 96: 1, 47-50.

Pfefferbaum, B.; Stuber, J.; Fairbrother, G.; Galea, S., (2006), Panic in Reaction to the September 11 Attacks in Adolescents, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 19: 2, 217-288.

Stuber, J.; Galea, S.; Boscarino, J.; Schlesinger, M., (2006), Was there Unmet Mental Health Need after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks?, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41: 3, 230-240.

Stuber, J.; Resnick, H.; Galea, S., (2006), Gender disparities in posttraumatic stress disorder, Gender Medicine, 3: 1, 54-67.

Stuber, J.; Schlesinger, M., (2006), The Sources of Stigma in Government Means-tested Programs., Social Science & Medicine, 63: 4, 933-45.

Boscarino, J. A.; Adams, R. E.; Stuber, J.; Galea, S., (2005), Disparities in Mental Health Treatment following the World Trade Center Disaster: Implications for Mental Health Care and Health Services Research, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18: 4, 1-11.

Des Jarlais, D.; Stuber, J.; Tracy, M.; Tross, S.; Galea, S., (2005), Personal Resources, mental health status and the stigmatization of AIDS and SARS, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 11: 11, 1767-1769.

Galea, S.; Nandi, A.; Stuber, J.; Acierno, R.; Best, C.; Bucuvalas, M.; Rudenstine, S.; Boscarino, J.; Resnick, H., (2005), Participant reactions to survey research in the general population after terrorist attacks, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18: 5, 1-5.

Stuber, J.; Bradley, E., (2005), Barriers to Medicaid Enrollment: Who Is at Risk?, American Journal of Public Health, 95: 2, 292.

Stuber, J.; Galea, S., (2005), Barriers to Mental Health Treatment After Disasters, Psychiatric Services, 56: 9, 1157.

Stuber, J.; Galea, S.; Pfefferbaum, B.; Vandivere, S.; Moore, K.; Fairbrother, G., (2005), Behavior problems in New York City’s children after the September 11, 2001 attacks, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 75: 2, 190-200.

Young, M.; Stuber, J.; Ahern, J.; Galea, S., (2005), Interpersonal Discrimination and the Health of Illicit Drug Users, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 31: 3, 371-391.