Faculty - [ Sociology Faculty - Dr. Jeralynn S. Cossman ]
Dr. Jeralynn S. Cossman
Director of Sociology Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology
Research Fellow/Scientist, SSRC
Ph.D., Sociology, Florida State University
Dr. Cossman has research and teaching interests in medical sociology, demography, and health services research. In addition to her position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, she works with the Social Science Research Center's (SSRC) Mississippi Health Policy Research Center as a Research Fellow, examining issues related to health assessment, prevention, and social epidemiology. She is also directs the newly formed Northeast Mississippi Area Health Education Center.
Dr. Cossman's recent research focuses on spatial concentrations of mortality and morbidity, Mississippi's physician workforce, access to care for Medicaid patients (particularly children), and an evaluation of the Mississippi Medicaid Medical Home Program. She is currently pursuing a comparative health research agenda with faculty at the University of Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Her research projects have been funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Mississippi's Division of Medicaid. More recently her physician workforce research has been funded by the Mississippi Primary Care Network, the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Her works have been published in several sociology and interdisciplinary journals including the American Journal of Public Health, Social Problems, AIDS Education and Prevention, Health and Place, The International Journal of Health Geographics, The Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying, Population Research and Policy Review, Sociological Inquiry, and Sociological Spectrum.
