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Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and Gerontology and Director of the Center for Health, Equity, & Aging (CHEA) in Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health (SAPH) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
I also hold a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health in the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Contact
Enjoying that social media-free life since 2020! ✌️
To contact me, email:
christine_mair (at) umbc.edu
The overall goal of my research is to understand variation in older adults’ social environments (family structures, networks, neighborhoods) and health cross-nationally to identify options for promoting well-being among aging populations that are particularly vulnerable to social isolation.
Specifically, I’m interested in how the presence or absence of family and non-family ties are linked to social support and social integration, and how this process differentially shapes mental health, physical health, end-of-life experiences, and other aspects of well-being across modern and historical cultures and societies.
Below are some photos from my international collaborative travels. 🙂
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Cologne, Germany) 
International Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics (Yokohama, Japan) 
Aging Technology & Policy Lab, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon, S. Korea) 
World Congress of Sociology (Melbourne, Australia) 
Workshop on Intergenerational Relations, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) 
Center for Family and Population Research & Department of Sociology, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) 
Institute of Gerontology, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China (Beijing, China) 
Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University (Xi’an, China) 
Institute of Statistics & Demography, Warsaw School of Economics (Warsaw, Poland) 
Society and Health Research Center at Universidad Mayor (Santiago, Chile) 
Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications, University of Florence (Florence, Italy) 
Erasmus School of Social & Behavioral Sciences (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)