Arline Geronimus

Arline T. Geronimus is an American public health researcher and research professor at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center. She is also the Center's associate director and a professor of Health Behavior & Health Education at the University of Michigan. She is known for proposing the "weathering hypothesis", which posits that cumulative racism experienced by black women cause them to experience inferior birth outcomes as their maternal age increases.[1][2] She has also studied other issues regarding pregnancy, including the effect of teenage childbearing on the mother's economic status[3] and the effect of immigration enforcement raids on low birth weight.[4]