Lynne Cossman

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Jeralynn Sittig Cossman, also known as Lynne Cossman,[1] is the founding dean of UTSA's College for Health, Community and Policy.[2] Prior to that appointment in 2020, she was Professor and head of the Department of Sociology at West Virginia University and before that, Department Head and Chair in the department of sociology at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. Dr. Cossman was also a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University. She is the co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Population Research and Policy Review.

Cossman received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Florida State University. She has published a number of articles in major journals, including: American Journal of Public Health,[3][4] Social Problems,[5] AIDS Education and Prevention, Health and Place, The International Journal of Health Geographics,[6] The Journal of Economic and Social Measurement,[7] OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying, Population Research and Policy Review,[8][9][10] Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Spectrum,[11] Journal of Criminal Justice

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  1. ^ "Official University Web page at WVU". Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
  2. ^ "UTSA names founding dean of College for Health, Community and Policy". www.utsa.edu. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. ^ Cosby AG, Thornton-Neaves T, Cossman RE, Cossman JS, James WL, Feierabend N, Mirvis D, Jones CA, Farrigan T (2008). "Preliminary evidence for an emerging nonmetropolitan mortality penalty in the United States". American Journal of Public Health. 98 (2): 1470–2. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.123778. PMC 2446448. PMID 18556611.
  4. ^ Cossman JS, Cossman RE, James WL, Campbell CR, Blanchard TC, Cosby AG (2007). "Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States". American Journal of Public Health. 97 (12): 2148–50. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2006.093112. PMC 2089111. PMID 17538052.
  5. ^ Street D, Cossman JS (2006). "Greatest Generation or Greedy Geezers? A Life Course Approach to Social Spending Preferences". Social Problems. 53 (1): 75–96. doi:10.1525/sp.2006.53.1.75.
  6. ^ James WL, Cossman RE, Cossman JS, Campbell CR, Blanchard TC (2004). "A Brief Visual Primer for the Mapping of Mortality Trend Data" (PDF). The International Journal of Health Geographics. 3 (7): 7. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-3-7. PMC 400752. PMID 15072581.
  7. ^ Blanchard TC, Levin ML, Cossman JS (2004). "Data Sources for Hierarchical Models of Individual Mortality Incomes". Journal of Economic and Social Measurement. 29 (4): 473–85. doi:10.3233/JEM-2004-0237.
  8. ^ Cossman RE; Cossman JS; Cosby AG; Reavis, R (2008). "Reconsidering the Rural-Urban Continuum in Rural Health Research: A Test of Stable Relationships Using Mortality as a Health Measure". Population Research and Policy Review. 27 (4): 459–476. doi:10.1007/s11113-008-9069-6. S2CID 154900101.
  9. ^ James WL, Cossman JS (2007). "Does Regional Variation Affect Ecological Mortality Research? An Examination of Mortality, Income Inequality and Health Infrastructure in Mississippi Delta". Population Research and Policy Review. 25 (2): 175–195. doi:10.1007/s11113-006-9003-8. S2CID 154637794.
  10. ^ Blanchard TC, Cossman JS, Levin ML (2004). "Multiple Meanings of Minority Concentration: Incorporating Contextual Explanations into the Analysis of Individual Level US Black Mortality Outcomes". Population Research and Policy Review. 23 (3): 309–326. doi:10.1023/B:POPU.0000034080.72592.42. S2CID 154253566.
  11. ^ Jimenez A, Cossman JS (2006). "When People Died: An Examination of Historic Mortality Seasonality Using an Historic African American Population". Sociological Spectrum. 26 (2): 149–181. doi:10.1080/02732170500444601. S2CID 143994079.

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