Marnie Dobson, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Social Epidemiology
13650 Marina Pointe Dr. Unit 1701
Marina Del Rey, Ca 90292
Marnie Dobson, Ph.D. is currently Associate Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology in Los Angeles, California. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is collaborating with Dr. Peter Schnall and Dr. BongKyoo Choi at the UC Irvine Center for Occupational and Environmental Health on occupational health survey projects with CWA, HERE and the Orange County Fire Authority and IAFF Local 3631. Her research interests focus on gender and work, emotional labor, and work organization/psychosocial stressors and mental health outcomes. She is a co-editor and contributing author in the new book Unhealthy Work: Causes, consequences, cures, published this summer by Baywood Publishing.
Selected References
Dobson M. From Stress to Distress: Work and Its Impact on Mental Health. In: Schnall, Peter; Dobson, Marnie, Rosskam, Ellen et al. (editors). Unhealthy Work: Causes, Consequences, Cures. Critical Approaches in the Health Social Sciences edited by Ray Elling (Series Editor) Baywood, 2009.
Schuster, TL, Dobson M, Jauregui, M, Blanks, RHI. A comparison of a new self-reported health and wellness (SRHW) instrument with the RAND-36 in a longitudinal study of Network Spinal Analysis Ô patients. Submitted to Social Indicators 2008
Schuster T, Dobson M., Jauregui M, Blanks RHI. Wellness Lifestyles I: A Theoretical Framework Linking Wellness, Health Lifestyles, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, April 2004:10(2): 349-356.
Schuster T, Dobson M., Jauregui M, Blanks RHI. Wellness Lifestyles II: Modeling Relationships Between Wellness, Health Lifestyle Practices, and Network Spinal Analysis. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, April 2004: 10(2):357-368.
Naples N, Dobson M. Feminists and the Welfare State: Aboriginal Health Care Workers and U.S. Community Workers of Color. National Women’s Studies Association Journal (Special Issue - Gender and Social Policy: Local to Global) Fall 2001; 13(3): 116-137.