Jacqueline Torres, PhD, MA, MPH
Associate Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

Her ongoing research is examining the role of family social connections, caregiving, and household composition changes in shaping late-life health, including Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She approaches her research from a life-course perspective and a social determinants of health framework. Much of her ongoing research employs modern epidemiologic methods that are better equipped than conventional methods at estimating the impact of time-varying exposures in the presence of time-varying confounding. Dr. Torres is also supporting trainees at all levels who are leading research broadly on the social determinants of inequity in health and aging and specifically related to policy impacts on the health of immigrants and their family and community members across the life-course.

• Structural racism, nativity and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes among Black women.
  Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology 2023 McKenzie-Sampson S, Baer RJ, Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL, Karasek D, Riddell CA, Torres JM, Blebu BE
• The Effects of Midlife Acute and Chronic Stressors on Black-White Differences in Cognitive Decline.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2023 Mitchell UA, Shaw BA, Torres JM, Brown LL, Barnes LL
• Spouses of individuals living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia in the United States: A descriptive, population-based study.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023 Torres JM, Flores Romero KR, Kotwal AA, Chen R, Hill-Jarrett T, Mitchell UA, Glymour MM
• Definitions of successful aging among middle-aged Latinas residing in a rural agricultural community.
  PloS one 2023 Ambriz E, De Pierola C, Calderon NM, Calderon L, Kogut K, Deardorff J, Torres JM
• Using an Online Panel to Crosswalk Alternative Measures of Alcohol Use As Fielded in Two National Samples.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Pederson AM, Zimmerman SC, Torres JM, Schmidt LA, Kim YJ, Glymour MM
• Perceptions of the Role of Living Alone in Providing Services to Patients With Cognitive Impairment.
  JAMA network open 2023 Portacolone E, Nguyen TT, Bowers BJ, Johnson JK, Kotwal AA, Stone RI, Keiser S, Tran T, Rivera E, Martinez P, Yang Y, Torres JM, Covinsky KE
• Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics and Later-Life Pain Outcomes: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study.
  Journal of aging and health 2023 Yang Y, Sims KD, Lane NE, Duchowny KA, Torres JM
• My parent, myself, or my child: whose education matters most for trajectories of cognitive aging in middle age?
  American journal of epidemiology 2023 Gutierrez S, Meza E, Glymour MM, Torres JM
• Adult child socio-economic status and older parents' psychosocial outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Research square 2023 Romero KRF, Yang Y, Green SH, Gutierrez S, Meza E, Torres JM
• Mammography prevalence in Mexico from 2001-2018: Results from the Mexican Health and Aging study.
  Preventive medicine reports 2023 McClellan SP, Unger-Saldaña K, Neuhaus JM, Potter MB, García-Peña C, Torres JM
• Adult Child Schooling and Older Parents' Cognitive Outcomes in the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE): A Quasi-Experimental Study.
  American journal of epidemiology 2022 Torres JM, Yang Y, Rudolph KE, Meza E, Glymour MM, Courtin E
• Self-rated health of both US citizens and noncitizens is associated with state-level immigrant criminalization policies.
  SSM - population health 2022 Young MT, Crookes DM, Torres JM
• Worker Perspectives on COVID-19 Risks: A Qualitative Study of Latino Construction Workers in Oakland, California.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2022 Meza E, Giglio L, Franco AO, Rodriguez E, Stock L, Balmes J, Torres JM, Fernandez A
• The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and birth outcomes in California: a quasi-experimental study.
  BMC public health 2022 Torres JM, Alcala E, Shaver A, Collin DF, Franck LS, Gomez AM, Karasek D, Nidey N, Hotard M, Hamad R, Pacheco-Werner T
• Social network change after new-onset pain among middle-aged and older European adults.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2022 Yang Y, Huang R, Grol-Prokopczyk H, Torres JM
• Increased adult child schooling and older parents' health behaviors in Europe: A quasi-experimental study.
  SSM - population health 2022 Torres JM, Yang Y, Rudolph KE, Courtin E
• The Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment Project's Policy Advisory Group on Long-Term Services and Supports: Setting a Research Equity Agenda.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2022 Portacolone E, Torres JM, Johnson JK, Benton D, Rapp T, Tran T, Martinez P, Graham C
• Future Directions for the HRS Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol.
  Forum for health economics & policy 2022 Torres JM, Glymour MM
• Difficulties with Activities of Daily Living and Receipt of Care Among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: Differences Between Those Living Alone and Those Living with Others.
  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Yang Y, Swinnerton K, Portacolone E, Allen IE, Torres JM, Duchowny K
• Estimating the Impact of Sustained Social Participation on Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2021 Shiba K, Torres JM, Daoud A, Inoue K, Kanamori S, Tsuji T, Kamada M, Kondo K, Kawachi I
• Triangulating Evidence to Infer Pathways that Influence Ebola Virus Disease-Related Stigma and Clinical Findings among Survivors: An Observational Cohort Study.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2021 Kelly JD, Badio M, Drew C, Wilson B, Cooper JB, Glayweon M, Johnson K, Moses JS, Gayedu-Dennis D, Torres JM, Oldenburg CE, Davidson MC, Huang CY, Steward WT, Sneller MC, Rutherford GW, Reilly C, …
• Provider and administrator-level perspectives on strategies to reduce fear and improve patient trust in the emergency department in times of heightened immigration enforcement.
  PloS one 2021 Ornelas-Dorian C, Torres JM, Sun J, Aleman A, Cordova E, Orue A, Taira BR, Anderson E, Rodriguez RM
• Estimating the effects of Mexico to U.S. migration on elevated depressive symptoms: evidence from pooled cross-national cohorts.
  Annals of epidemiology 2021 Murchland AR, Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Zhang L, Elfassy T, Grasset L, Riley AR, Wong R, Haan MN, Jones RN, Torres JM, Glymour MM
• Individual- and neighborhood-level socioeconomic status and risk of aggressive breast cancer subtypes in a pooled cohort of women from Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
  Cancer 2021 Aoki RF, Uong SP, Gomez SL, Alexeeff SE, Caan BJ, Kushi LH, Torres JM, Guan A, Canchola AJ, Morey BN, Lin K, Kroenke CH
• Maternal nativity and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes among Black women residing in California, 2011-2017.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 2021 McKenzie-Sampson S, Baer RJ, Blebu BE, Karasek D, Oltman SP, Pantell MS, Rand L, Rogers EE, Torres JM, Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL, Scott KA, Chambers BD
• Excess mortality among Latino people in California during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  SSM - population health 2021 Riley AR, Chen YH, Matthay EC, Glymour MM, Torres JM, Fernandez A, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Hyper-localized measures of air pollution and risk of preterm birth in Oakland and San Jose, California.
  International journal of epidemiology 2021 Riddell CA, Goin DE, Morello-Frosch R, Apte JS, Glymour MM, Torres JM, Casey JA
• Anti-immigrant Rhetoric and the Experiences of Latino Immigrants in the Emergency Department.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2021 Ornelas C, Torres JM, Torres JR, Alter H, Taira BR, Rodriguez RM
• Adult child socio-economic status disadvantage and cognitive decline among older parents in Mexico.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2021 Torres JM, Yahirun JJ, Sheehan C, Ma M, Sáenz J
• Excess death among Latino people in California during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2021 Riley AR, Chen YH, Matthay EC, Glymour MM, Torres JM, Fernandez A, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Association of US state policy orientation with adverse birth outcomes: a longitudinal analysis.
  Journal of epidemiology and community health 2021 Riley AR, Collin D, Grumbach JM, Torres JM, Hamad R
• Quantifying Lifecourse Drivers of International Migration: A Cross-national Analysis of Mexico and the United States.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2021 Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Zhang L, Murchland AR, Grasset L, Torres JM, Jones RN, Wong R, Glymour MM
• Associations between spousal caregiving and health among older adults in Mexico: A targeted estimation approach.
  International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020 Torres JM, Mitchell UA, Sofrygin O, Rudolph KE, López-Ortega M, Sharif MZ, Wong R, Glymour MM
• Association Between Health Care Utilization and Immigration Enforcement Events in San Francisco.
  JAMA network open 2020 Yasenov VI, Hainmueller J, Hotard M, Lawrence D, Gottlieb LM, Torres JM
• Socioeconomic status and colorectal cancer screening behaviors in a vulnerable multiethnic population.
  Ethnicity & health 2020 Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Rivadeneira NA, Torres JM, Sarkar U, Hiatt RA
• Elevated Depressive Symptoms and the Risk of Stroke among the Mexican Older Population.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020 Meza E, Eng CW, Sáenz JL, Gilsanz P, Glymour MM, Torres JM
• US Migration Status of Adult Children and Cognitive Decline Among Older Parents Who Remain in Mexico.
  American journal of epidemiology 2020 Torres JM, Sofrygin O, Rudolph KE, Haan MN, Wong R, Glymour MM
• When Is Hope Enough? Hopefulness, Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Allostatic Load.
  Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) 2020 Mitchell UA, Dellor ED, Sharif MZ, Brown LL, Torres JM, Nguyen AW
• Difficulty and help with activities of daily living among older adults living alone with cognitive impairment.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020 Edwards RD, Brenowitz WD, Portacolone E, Covinsky KE, Bindman A, Glymour MM, Torres JM
• Nativity, Neighborhoods, and Body Composition in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
  The Gerontologist 2020 Durazo EM, Haan MN, Dang K, Aiello AE, Torres JM
• Associations Between Social Factor Documentation and Hospital Length of Stay and Readmission Among Children.
  Hospital pediatrics 2020 Pantell MS, Kaiser SV, Torres JM, Gottlieb LM, Adler NE
• Deportation Worry, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Trajectories, and Incident Hypertension: A Community-Based Cohort Study.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2019 Torres JM, Deardorff J, Holland N, Harley KG, Kogut K, Long K, Eskenazi B
• Using change in a seat belt law to study racially-biased policing in South Carolina.
  Preventive medicine 2019 Riddell CA, Kaufman JS, Torres JM, Harper S
• Do Deviations From Historical Precipitation Trends Influence Child Nutrition? An Analysis From Uganda.
  American journal of epidemiology 2019 Epstein A, Torres JM, Glymour MM, López-Carr D, Weiser SD
• Associations between unstable housing, obstetric outcomes, and perinatal health care utilization.
  American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM 2019 Pantell MS, Baer RJ, Torres JM, Felder JN, Gomez AM, Chambers BD, Dunn J, Parikh NI, Pacheco-Werner T, Rogers EE, Feuer SK, Ryckman KK, Novak NL, Tabb KM, Fuchs J, Rand L, Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL
• Interventions Addressing Food Insecurity in Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review.
  Annals of family medicine 2019 De Marchis EH, Torres JM, Benesch T, Fichtenberg C, Allen IE, Whitaker EM, Gottlieb LM
• Inequalities in elevated depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults by rural childhood residence: The important role of education.
  International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2019 Murchland AR, Eng CW, Casey JA, Torres JM, Mayeda ER
• Association of Perceived Immigration Policy Vulnerability With Mental and Physical Health Among US-Born Latino Adolescents in California.
  JAMA pediatrics 2019 Eskenazi B, Fahey CA, Kogut K, Gunier R, Torres J, Gonzales NA, Holland N, Deardorff J
• Association of Preterm Births Among US Latina Women With the 2016 Presidential Election.
  JAMA network open 2019 Gemmill A, Catalano R, Casey JA, Karasek D, Alcalá HE, Elser H, Torres JM
• Having an Adult Child in the United States, Physical Functioning, and Unmet Needs for Care Among Older Mexican Adults.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2019 Torres JM, Rudolph KE, Sofrygin O, Wong R, Walter LC, Glymour MM
• An online experiment to assess bias in professional medical coding.
  BMC medical informatics and decision making 2019 Torres JM, Hessler-Jones D, Yarbrough C, Tapley A, Jimenez R, Gottlieb LM
• Identifying Food Insecurity in Health Care Settings: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Evidence.
  Family & community health 2019 De Marchis EH, Torres JM, Fichtenberg C, Gottlieb LM
• Reconsidering the Relationship between Age at Migration and Health Behaviors among US Immigrants: The Modifying Role of Continued Cross-border Ties.
  Advances in medical sociology 2019 Torres JM, Ro A, Sudhinaraset M
• Longitudinal associations between having an adult child migrant and depressive symptoms among older adults in the Mexican Health and Aging Study.
  International journal of epidemiology 2018 Torres JM, Rudolph KE, Sofrygin O, Glymour MM, Wong R
• Cross-border ties, nativity, and inflammatory markers in a population-based prospective study of Latino adults.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2018 Torres JM, Epel ES, To TM, Lee A, Aiello AE, Haan MN
• Worry About Deportation and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among Adult Women: The Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas Study.
  Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2018 Torres JM, Deardorff J, Gunier RB, Harley KG, Alkon A, Kogut K, Eskenazi B
• Lifetime Socioeconomic Status and Late-life Health Trajectories: Longitudinal Results From the Mexican Health and Aging Study.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2018 Torres JM, Rizzo S, Wong R
• ICD Social Codes: An Underutilized Resource for Tracking Social Needs.
  Medical care 2017 Torres JM, Lawlor J, Colvin JD, Sills MR, Bettenhausen JL, Davidson A, Cutler GJ, Hall M, Gottlieb LM
• The centrality of social ties to climate migration and mental health.
  BMC public health 2017 Torres JM, Casey JA
• Cross-border Ties as Sources of Risk and Resilience: Do Cross-border Ties Moderate the Relationship between Migration-related Stress and Psychological Distress for Latino Migrants in the United States?
  Journal of health and social behavior 2016 Torres JM, Alcántara C, Rudolph KE, Viruell-Fuentes EA
• Transnational ties and the health of sub-Saharan African migrants: The moderating role of gender and family separation.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2016 Afulani PA, Torres JM, Sudhinaraset M, Asunka J
• A longitudinal analysis of cross-border ties and depression for Latino adults.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2016 Torres JM, Lee A, González HM, Garcia L, Haan MN
• A life-course perspective on legal status stratification and health.
  SSM - population health 2016 Torres JM, Young MD
• Walking the Line: Navigating Market and Gift Economies of Care in a Consumer-Directed Home-Based Care Program for Older Adults.
  The Milbank quarterly 2015 Torres JM, Kietzman KG, Wallace SP
• Civic Stratification and the Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants from Cross-border Health Care.
  Journal of health and social behavior 2015 Torres JM, Waldinger R
• Childhood poverty and depressive symptoms for older adults in Mexico: a life-course analysis.
  Journal of cross-cultural gerontology 2013 Torres JM, Wong R
• Migration circumstances, psychological distress, and self-rated physical health for Latino immigrants in the United States.
  American journal of public health 2013 Torres JM, Wallace SP
• Cross-border ties and self-rated health status for young Latino adults in Southern California.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2012 Torres JM
• A portrait of older californians with disabilities who rely on public services to remain independent.
  Home health care services quarterly 2012 Kietzman KG, Wallace SP, Durazo EM, Torres JM, Choi AS, Benjamin AE, Mendez-Luck C
• Independence at risk: older Californians with disabilities struggle to remain at home as public supports shrink.
  Policy brief (UCLA Center for Health Policy Research) 2011 Kietzman KG, Durazo EM, Torres JM, Choi AS, Wallace SP
• "I want to be taking my own last breath": patients' reflections on illness when presenting to the emergency department at the end of life.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2011 Grudzen CR, Stone SC, Mohanty SA, Asch SM, Lorenz KA, Torres JM, Morrison M, Ortiz JM, Timmermans S
• Paramedic and emergency medical technicians views on opportunities and challenges when forgoing and halting resuscitation in the field.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2009 Grudzen CR, Timmermans S, Koenig WJ, Torres JM, Hoffman JR, Lorenz KA, Asch SM