Neighborhood racial and economic privilege and timing of pubertal onset in girls

A team of researchers, led by Julia Acker, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, sought to determine whether differences in racial and economic privilege at the neighborhood level may contribute to these disparities. 

Additional authors of the paper are: Mahasin Mujahid and Julianna Deardorff (senior co-author), UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Sara Aghaee and Ai Kubo (senior co-author), Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California; Scarlett Gomez and Salma Shariff-Marco, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF; and Brandon Chu, School of Medicine, UCSF.

This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.