Heidi Schoomaker

Overview

Heidi Schoomaker is a public health researcher affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) at the time of the 2019 JAMA paper, subsequently at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She co-authored with Steven H. Woolf the comprehensive 60-year analysis of U.S. life expectancy and mortality rates, contributing to data analysis and manuscript preparation.

Key Contributions

• Co-authored Woolf and Schoomaker (2019), the definitive joinpoint analysis of U.S. LE 1959–2017, documenting the post-2014 decline, racial universalization of midlife mortality retrogression, Ohio Valley geographic concentration, and organ system disease burden beyond the drugs/alcohol/suicide cluster

Related

• Steven H. Woolf
• Deaths of Despair
• Period Mortality

Sources

• Woolf and Schoomaker 2019 — Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017