Dr. Dustin Brown is an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University (MSU) where he holds a joint appointment in the Sociology Department and at the Social Science Research Center (SSRC). Dr. Brown is a social demographer with substantive research interests in population health, aging, and social inequality processes. His research primarily seeks to understand how exposure to social, economic, and contextual risk factors influence health across the life course. His current research primarily focuses on three interrelated issues: 1) morbidity and mortality dynamics in older adult populations, 2) child and adolescent health disparities, and 3) spatial disparities in population health. His research is interdisciplinary drawing on substantive perspectives and methodological approaches in sociology, demography, psychology, and epidemiology to better understand how social forces shape population health disparities and over the life course. Although his research primarily focuses on population health disparities, he is also currently engaged in new line of research with colleagues in civil engineering that examines sociodemographic and socioeconomic inequalities in exposure to environmental hazards such as flood risk.