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Wei Xu PhD

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Assistant Professor

Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Department: Institute for Health and Humanity
Division: Institute for Health and Humanity Research

Member of the Institute for Health & Humanity

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Research Experience

  • Cognitive Aging
  • Environmental Health
  • Geography, Medical
  • Healthcare Disparities
  • Healthy Aging
  • Long-Term Care
  • Minority Health
  • Population Dynamics
  • Racism
  • Spatio-Temporal Analysis

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    • Publications (20)

  • Understanding the burden of poor health outcomes among climate-related migrant populations in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review (Max Bobholz, Carly Schanock, Tinuola Oladebo, Crispus Mwemaho, Julius Ssentongo, Agnes Nyabigambo, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Bryan Johnston, Roy Mayega, Wei Xu, John Bosco Isunju, Kirsten Beyer) Health & Place 09/01/2026    
  • The Environmental Racism Index: estimating the strength of association among environmental risk/benefit, mortgage lending disinvestment, and racial/ethnic density across US geographies (Kirsten Beyer, Wei Xu, Yuhong Zhou, Kai Yang, Jaime Madrigano, Anita Chandra) Social Science and Medicine 08/13/2026    
  • Accelerometer-based physical activity, air pollution and risk of dementia subtypes: a prospective study using UK biobank. (Zhang Y, Xu W) Front Public Health 2025;13:1695462 PMID: 41607889 PMCID: PMC12835275 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105028502930 01/29/2026    
  • How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms. (Kamis C, Xu W, Schultz A, Clark J, Engelman M, Malecki K) J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2025 Nov 05;80(12) PMID: 41124018 PMCID: PMC12584352 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105022806848 10/22/2025       1 Citation
  • Climate seasonality and the health and well-being of older adults in rural Busia and Kilifi Counties, Kenya: SENIORS study - protocol for a qualitative study. (Shumba CS, Dawson AZ, Xu W, Muchanga K, Lusambili A) BMJ Open 2025 Oct 02;15(10):e103956 PMID: 41043838 PMCID: PMC12496071 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105017754280 10/04/2025       1 Citation
  • Guideline Adherence for Kidney Disease Testing at Federally Qualified Health Centers. (Fraunhofer L, Cassidy L, Meurer J, Xu W, Wright C, Ennis J, Saran R, Bragg-Gresham J) JAMA Netw Open 2025 Sep 02;8(9):e2533812 PMID: 40991287 PMCID: PMC12461394 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105017101270 09/24/2025       1 Citation
  • Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging. (Xu W, Kamis C, Clark J, Schultz A, Engelman M, Malecki K) SSM Popul Health 2025 Sep;31:101825 PMID: 40584435 PMCID: PMC12206060 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105007938886 07/01/2025       1 Citation
  • Xu et al respond to "Invited commentary: improving spatial exposure data for everyone-life-course social context and ascertaining residential history". (Xu W, Engelman M, Malecki K, Kamis C, Schultz A, Agnew M, Salas S) Am J Epidemiol 2025 Mar 04;194(3):578-579 PMID: 39270678 PMCID: PMC11879522 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-86000672093 09/14/2024    
  • The health implications of cumulative exposure to contextual (dis)advantage: methodological and substantive advances from a unique data linkage. (Xu W, Kamis C, Agnew M, Schultz A, Salas S, Malecki K, Engelman M) Am J Epidemiol 2025 Feb 05;194(2):480-489 PMID: 38973742 PMCID: PMC11815491 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85217882845 07/08/2024       4 Citations
  • Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health. (Kamis C, Xu W, Schultz A, Malecki K, Engelman M) Health Place 2024 Jul;88:103262 PMID: 38833849 PMCID: PMC11878194 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85194961201 06/05/2024       8 Citations
  • Constructing Residential Histories in a General Population-Based Representative Sample. (Xu W, Agnew M, Kamis C, Schultz A, Salas S, Malecki K, Engelman M) Am J Epidemiol 2024 Feb 05;193(2):348-359 PMID: 37715463 PMCID: PMC10840075 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85184015231 09/16/2023       16 Citations
  • Expanding the scope of health disparities research in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: Recommendations from the "Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods for Health Disparities Research Related to Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias" Workshop Series. (Akushevich I, Kravchenko J, Yashkin A, Doraiswamy PM, Hill CV, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Health Disparities Collaborative Group) Alzheimers Dement (Amst) 2023;15(1):e12415 PMID: 36935764 PMCID: PMC10020680 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85149414720 03/21/2023       27 Citations
  • Persistence of mortgage lending bias in the United States: 80 years after the Home Owners' Loan Corporation security maps. (Namin S, Zhou Y, Xu W, McGinley E, Jankowski C, Laud P, Beyer K) J Race Ethn City 2022;3(1):70-94 PMID: 35992214 PMCID: PMC9387904 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85163991271 08/23/2022       22 Citations
  • From convergence to divergence: Lifespan variation in US states, 1959-2017. (Xu W, Engelman M, Fletcher J) SSM Popul Health 2021 Dec;16:100987 PMID: 34917746 PMCID: PMC8666353 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85120637225 12/18/2021       6 Citations
  • State of birth and cardiovascular disease mortality: Multilevel analyses of the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. (Xu W, Topping M, Fletcher J) SSM Popul Health 2021 Sep;15:100875 PMID: 34345647 PMCID: PMC8319560 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85110661125 08/05/2021       9 Citations
  • Where and When: Sharpening the lens on geographic disparities in mortality. (Xu W, Engelman M, Palloni A, Fletcher J) SSM Popul Health 2020 Dec;12:100680 PMID: 33195790 PMCID: PMC7645634 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85095436397 11/17/2020       15 Citations
  • Assessment of changes in place of death of older adults who died from dementia in the United States, 2000-2014: a time-series cross-sectional analysis. (Xu W, Wu C, Fletcher J) BMC Public Health 2020 Jun 11;20(1):765 PMID: 32522179 PMCID: PMC7288493 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086356049 06/12/2020       31 Citations
  • The legacy of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the political ecology of urban trees and air pollution in the United States. (Namin S, Xu W, Zhou Y, Beyer K) Soc Sci Med 2020 Feb;246:112758 PMID: 31884239 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85076950960 12/31/2019       125 Citations
  • Detecting spatiotemporal clusters of dementia mortality in the United States, 2000-2010. (Xu W, Wu C) Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol 2018 Nov;27:11-20 PMID: 30409372 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85051132160 11/10/2018       15 Citations
  • Racial and ethnic estimates of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the United States (2015-2060) in adults aged ≥65 years. (Matthews KA, Xu W, Gaglioti AH, Holt JB, Croft JB, Mack D, McGuire LC) Alzheimers Dement 2019 Jan;15(1):17-24 PMID: 30243772 PMCID: PMC6333531 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85059757038 09/24/2018       985 Citations
    • Last update: 08/13/2026