Postdoctoral Research Associate (HEDL)
Contact:
246 Flanner Hall
jpeng4@nd.edu
Biography
Dr. Jing Peng is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Health Equity Data Lab within the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society. She earned her PhD in Public Administration at Florida State University, focusing on how political and social factors influence racial health disparities at the county level. Her dissertation explored two primary areas: governmental responsiveness (including citizen participation, political representation, ideology, and governmental institutions) and social responsiveness (which encompasses county-level social capital, racialized social capital, and its interaction with structural inequality within the US context), all concerning racial health disparity outcomes. Jing has extensive experience working with county health datasets.
At Notre Dame, Jing continues her research on the determinants of health disparities with a concentration on developing transdisciplinary and multi-level perspectives. Currently, she is working on the Indigenous cancer disparities project, applying multi-model data integration techniques. Under the mentorship of Dr. Datta and the TIME Lab, she is keen on exploring biological responses and pathways leading to cancer disparities. Additionally, with the mentor Dr. Traeger’s guidance, she investigates individual risk behaviors and social networks. Jing’s overarching goal is to understand the interaction between biological and environmental factors, examining influences ranging from tumor microenvironments to the mezzo: social structure and relationships, extending to broader political and social macroenvironments and informing policy interventions addressing health disparities.
Department:
Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society
Advisors:
Meenal Datta, Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, TIME Lab
Margaret Traeger, Assistant Professor, IT, Analytics, and Operations, Mendoza College of Business