February 2015

Stephanie Howe Hasanali

8454 Hamilton Street

Hummelstown, Pennsylvania 17036
952-221-1975 | stephaniehowe14@gmail.com

EDUCATION
2015

Dual Ph.D. (expected), Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University

Minor area: Health
Committee: Gordon De Jong (chair), Jennifer Van Hook, Deborah Graefe, and Marianne Hillemeier
Dissertation title: Understanding the role of immigration policy in health care of immigrants
Overall GPA: 3.98

2012

Dual M.A., Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University

Committee: Gordon De Jong (chair), Deborah Graefe, and Leif Jensen
Thesis title: Have we come up short: A comparison of the unmet health care needs among U.S.-born and
foreign-born adults

2009

B.A., Sociology with Minor in Mathematics and French, Boston College

Departmental honors
Overall GPA: 3.75

R E S E AR C H I N T E R E S T S

Health inequality, immigration policy, immigrant health, children of immigrants, access to health
care, health policy, socioeconomic development, demographic methods
PU B LI C AT I O N S
Hasanali, S.H., De Jong, G.F., and Graefe, D.R. (2014). Hispanic-Asian immigrant inequality in perceived medical
need and access to regular physician care. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Advance online publication.
doi: 10.1007/s10903-014-0137-1
Hasanali, S.H. (2014). Immigrant-native disparities in perceived and actual met/unmet need for medical care.
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10903-014-0092-x
Anonymous. (2013). Brief review of Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care, edited
by Cindy Patton. Contemporary Sociology 42(3):453-454.
Anonymous. (2011). Brief review of Myths about Suicide, by Thomas Joiner. Contemporary Sociology 40(1):111.
Anonymous. (2011). Brief review of Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era, by
Carolyn Herbst Lewis. Contemporary Sociology 40(3):368-369.
Under Review
Reyes, A.M. and Hasanali, S.H. Working with cancer: How cancer diagnosis influences work productivity among
older adults.
Graefe, D.R., Hasanali, S.H., De Jong, G.F., and Galvan, C. CHIP-ing away at health disparities: Has stateprovided health insurance reduced race and nativity-based differences in health care utilization among U.S.
children?
PR E S E N TAT I O N S

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Graefe, D.R., Howe, S., De Jong, G.F., and Galvan, C. CHIP-ing away at health disparities: Has state-provided
health insurance reduced race and nativity-based differences in health care utilization among U.S. children?
Presented at the 2014 Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics International Conferences on Social
Policy and Health Inequalities, Montreal, QC, CA (May).
Graefe, D.R., Howe, S., De Jong, G.F., and Galvan, C. State CHIP policies and access to health care for children of
Hispanic immigrants: Reducing disparities in health care utilization among Americas children. Poster presented at
the 2014 Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (May).
Reyes, A.M. and Howe, S. Working with cancer: How cancer diagnosis reduces work productivity for older
adults. Presented at the 2014 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD (February).
Howe, S. Have we come up short? A comparison of the unmet health care needs among U.S.-born and foreign-born
adults. Presented at the 2013 Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (April).
Howe, S., De Jong, G.F., and Graefe, D.R. Investigating Hispanic-Asian immigrant inequality in unmet medical
need. Presented at the 2012 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (August).
Howe, S., Graefe, D.R., and De Jong, G.F. Immigrant Help Networks and Unmet Medical Need. Presented at the
2011 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV (August).
R E S E AR C H AN D T E AC H I N G AS S I G N M E N T S
2010-present

Research Assistant, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University

Collaborative researcher on National Institutes of Health (NICHD) grant, Mexican
children of immigrants: Health care access and utilization. Dr. Nancy Landale, principle
investigator; Dr. Deborah R. Graefe, project investigator. P01HD062498
Collected original state-specific longitudinal data on immigrant childrens eligibility for
the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Oversaw team of undergraduate research assistants in coding newspaper articles for local
immigrant receptivity climates
Assembled indicators of childrens health status and health care access/utilization from
the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

2014

Instructor, SOC 001 Introduction to Sociology web course (Penn State World Campus)

2014

Teaching Assistant, SOC 573 Demographic Techniques, Pennsylvania State University

AD D I TI O N AL W O R K E X PE R I E N C E
2010

Summer Intern, National Opinion Research Center (NORC), Chicago, IL

Identified ways to improve response rate of National Immunization Survey based on
content analysis of interview recordings, focus groups; presented to NORC leadership
Constructed summary tables on the effectiveness of the 2010 Census Integrated
Communications Program (CICP) that sought to encourage Census participation

2008-2009

Data Intern, Lightspeed Research, Cambridge, MA

2007-2008

Data Analyst Intern, Gage Marketing, Minneapolis, MN (summers only)

H O N O R S AN D AWAR D S

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2011
2010
2010

Thomas F. Morgan Graduate Scholarship, College of the Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State
University
Demography Scholar Award, Demography Program, The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Scholar Award, College of the Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University

AD D I T I O N AL I N F O R M AT I O N
Departmental Service
2012-present
Graduate Student Summer Methodology Workshop Committee, Population Research Institute
(Speaker Sub-committee)
Professional Membership
2011-present
American Sociological Association: Medical Sociology and International Migration sections
2010-present
Population Association of America
Quantitative Proficiency
Computing: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), SAS, Stata, R, SPSS
Methods: Multiple regression, longitudinal methods, demographic techniques (population projection), content
analysis
Occasional Manuscript Reviewer
Social Science & Medicine
REFERENCES
Gordon F. De Jong
Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Demography
The Pennsylvania State University
703 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802
Office phone: 814-863-2277
Email: ged@psu.edu
Jennifer Van Hook
Director, Population Research Institute
Professor of Sociology and Demography
The Pennsylvania State University
601B Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802
Office phone: 814-867-2276
Email: jxv21@psu.edu
More available upon request

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