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Emily Q. Ahonen, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor

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Phone:
(317) 274-3237
Email:
eqahonen@iu.edu
Departments:
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Additional Appointments:
Faculty Research Fellow, Center for Health Policy, Fairbanks School of Pubic Health
Degrees:
PhD, Public Health, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
MPH, Community and International Health, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
BA, Social Sciences, University of Michigan

Resume/CV

Health Sciences Building, RG 6094
1050 Wishard Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN
46202

Biography

Emily Ahonen has focused on work and housing environments as they interact with health and well-being. She also evaluates interventions, both to understand processes and to demonstrate outcomes in a variety of public health challenges. Prior to joining the FSPH, she spent several years at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a faculty member and a post-doctoral researcher, and also worked in health promotion with migrant agricultural workers.

Research Interests

I am interested in power, context, processes, agency, poverty, and their entanglements with health and well-being states. I operationalize those concepts most frequently through the study of employment, occupation, working conditions, and housing quality as fundamental contributors to health status. Because I am interested in health equity, and in the processes that shape health status for groups of people, I most often use qualitative and mixed methods designs, and collaborate regularly with scholars in other disciplines. Most recently, I have been exploring the idea of employment and work quality from the perspective of the specific groups of workers, and migration decision-making. What forms does quality work take? What is the worker experience of that work? In what ways does work interact with health and well-being, as the workers themselves see it? What makes for quality employment and work, and for whom? What kinds of work grant access to what kinds of health promoting or health inhibiting resources?  How does migration evolve as a process over time, and how do people navigate that process? 

As an educator in a field with professionals from many disciplines, I am also interested in how students envision the multiple environments which act upon health status. Their visions shape their approaches to problems and the solutions they will imagine for those problems. In newer work, I have begun to explore student views and what they might mean for environmental and occupational health education.

Learn more about Dr. Ahonen's research:
Research program on non-standard and precarious employment

Courses Taught

  • PBHL S-500 Social and Behavioral Science in Public Health
  • PBHL S-315  Community Organizing for Health Promotion
  • PBHL S-220 Navigating the Maze to Healthy Living

Selected Publications

  • Ahonen, E.Q., Fujishiro, K., Brown, S., Wang, Y., Palumbo, A.J., and Y.L. Michael (2020) Gendered exposures: exploring the role of paid and unpaid work throughout life in U.S. women’s cardiovascular health, Critical Public Health, DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2020.1854183
  • Winkler, M.R., Telke, S., Ahonen, E.Q., Crane, E.M., Mason, Susan M., and Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2020). Constrained Choices: Combined Influences of Work, Social Circumstances, and Social Location on Time-Dependent Health Behaviors; Social Science & Medicine Population Health 11, 100562. 10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100562
  • Ahonen, E.Q., "Occupational health challenges for immigrant workers." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health. Ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Ahonen, E. Q., Vives Vergara, A., Brousseau, L., & Baron, S. (2018). "Health and Safety Issues for Workers in Non-Standard Employment." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health. Ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Ahonen, E. Q., Fujishiro, K., Cunningham, T., & Flynn, M. (2018). Work as an inclusive part of population health inequities research and prevention. American Journal of Public Health, 108(3), 306–311.
  • Cheesman, K., & Ahonen, E.Q. (2019). “There is no escaping it”: Graduate student conceptions of environment and their implications for learning motivation and public health curricula. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 19(2).
  • Newman, S., Keefe, R., Brooks, R., & Ahonen, E. (2018). Human Factors Affecting Situational Awareness of Loggers in Idaho and the Potential for Technology-Based Safety Solutions to Reduce Injury Incidents. Safety.  http://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/4/4/43/pdf.
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