Lindsay Kobayashi

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Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study

Contact Information

2661 SPH I,
1415 Washington Heights,
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109

Phone: 734.763.0322
Email: [email protected]

Education

Ph.D., Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, 2016
M.Sc., Epidemiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 2012
B.Sc., Life Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 2010

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Research and Projects

Dr. Kobayashi investigates social and economic life course influences on cognitive aging in diverse global settings, and cross-national comparisons of later-life cognitive outcomes. She is the John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Assistant Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a Faculty Affiliate of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

Selected Recent Publications

Mullins MA, Kabeto M, Wallner LP, Kobayashi LC. Validation of Self-Reported Cancer Diagnoses by Respondent Cognitive Status in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A . Forthcoming. doi:10.1093/gerona/glac248.
Gross AL, LI CHIHUA, Briceño EM, et al. Harmonization of Later-Life Cognitive Function Across National Contexts: Results from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocols (HCAPs). medRxiv. Forthcoming. doi:10.1101/2023.06.09.23291217.
Rentería MArce, Briceño EM, Chen D, et al. Memory and language cognitive data harmonization across the United States and Mexico. Alzheimer's & Dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2023;15(3):e12478. doi:10.1002/dad2.12478.
Yu X, Cho T-C, Westrick AC, Chen C, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. Association of cumulative loneliness with all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults in the United States, 1996 to 2019. PNAS. 2023;120(51):e2306819120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2306819120.
Westrick AC, Langa KM, Eastman M, Ospina-Romero M, Mullins MA, Kobayashi LC. Functional aging trajectories of older cancer survivors: A latent growth analysis of the US Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 2023;17(5):1499-1509. doi:10.1007/s11764-022-01185-0.