Anneliese N. Luck

Anneliese's research lies at the intersection of population health, mortality, and public policy, focused on how political and policy contexts shape the lives and deaths of individuals across the United States. She is particularly interested in leveraging demographic and statistical methods to explore how the relationships between place, health, and mortality vary across multiple intersectional axes of social stratification, such as race, ethnicity, sex, and age. 

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Her work falls across three primary research areas:

1. The link between mortality and health systems, including how mortality contexts have shaped state-level health systems, and how Medicaid expansions and coverage gaps shape survival among immigrant populations;

2. The subnational political economies of mortality, examining how state policy polarization and punitive institutional contexts generate and sustain stark racial disparities in life expectancy across the United States;

3. The uneven geography of mortality, tracing how place of reception shapes immigrant longevity, exploring the intersection of educational and racial disparities with geographic life expectancy trends, and mapping divergent mortality patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic across race, sex, and geography.

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Her work has appeared in Demography, Social Forces, Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior,  SSM-Population Health,  JAMA Network Open, PLOS ONE, Science Advances, Child Abuse and Neglect, and Children and Youth Services Review.