Presentations

Spatial Factors in U.S. Mortality: Assessing the Importance of a Hierarchy. 2019. Cossman JS. M.E. John Seminars Committee of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State University. State College, PA.

Hierarchy of Need: A County-Level Analysis. 2017. Cossman JS, Weeks J. Medical Humanities Research Group, West Virginia University. Morgantown, WV.

Spatial Disparities in Mortality: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going. 2017. Cossman JS. Charles Nam Lecture. Center for Demography & Population Health, Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL.  

Meeting of the Minds: Poverty in Appalachia. 2017. Cossman JS. Mountaineer Health Initiative. Morgantown, WV.

Academic Presentations 

2019

Cossman JS, JK Wolf, and S Hodder. Exploring the Relationship between County-Level Social Capital and Deaths of Despair. Southern Demographic Association. New Orleans, LA.

Wolf JK, A Brash, and JS Cossman. Exploring the Relationship between County-Level Social Capital and Abortion Clinics. Southern Demographic Association. New Orleans, LA.

Wolf JK and JS Cossman. Self-Rated Health by Sexual Orientation and Sexual Attraction of Men and Non-Pregnant Women Age 25-45, 2011-2015 NSFG. Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. Seattle, OR.

Cossman JS and JK Wolf. Exploring the Relationship between County-Level Social Capital and Deaths of Despair. Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. Seattle, OR.

Stein R and JS Cossman. The Implications of Family Planning on Maternal Health. Health and Well-Being in Amish Society. Elizabethtown, PA.

2018

Cossman JS, J Saint Onge, and WL James. The Association Between County-Level Health Behaviors and Rural Mortality Disadvantage. Southern Demographic Association. Durham, NC.

Cossman JS, JK Wolf, and DJ Meyers. Exploring Regional Classifications for Predicting Health Behaviors by Sex across the United States. Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. Washington D.C. 

Cossman JS and W DeKerseredy. From Boys Will Be Boys to Boys Will Be Men: Rural, Suburban, and Urban Variations in Male Peer Support and Violence Against Women. American Society of Criminology. Atlanta, GA.

Cossman JS, V Frey-McClung, and C Mayo. Understanding Advocacy Behaviors of Undergraduate Students: Who Advocates for Whom? American Public Health Association. San Diego, CA.

Cossman JS, M Harris, and W DeKeseredy. Rural Crime and Intimate Partner Violence in the United States from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Rural Sociological Society. Portland, OR.

Wolf JK, H DePoy, ML Harris, and JS Cossman. Testing a County-Level Contextual Hierarchy for Race- and Sex-Specific Spatial Mortality in the United States. North Central Sociological Association. Pittsburgh, PA.

2017

Cossman, JS, JK Wolf, ML Harris, and H DePoy. Testing a Social Progress Index for Spatial Mortality in the United States. Southern Demographic Association. Morgantown, WV.

Cossman JS, J Weeks, and JK Wolf. Examining Proper Model Specification for County Level Spatial Mortality Research in the US. Southern Demographic Association. Morgantown, WV.

Cossman JS, JK Wolf, and M Harris. Testing Race- and Gender-Specific Lags in Predictors of Lung Cancer Mortality in the United States. Southern Demographic Association. Morgantown, WV.

Cossman JS, ML Harris, and JK Wolf. Paradoxes and Lag Selection Bias: Testing Race- and Gender-Specific Lags in Predictors of Heart Disease Mortality in the United States. Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. Austin, TX

Cossman JS and J Dudley. Advancing Health in West Virginia through Engaged Scholarship in the Arts and Sciences. Engagement Scholarship Consortium. Birmingham, AL.

Cossman JS and JK Wolf. Spatial Patterns in American Mortality: Does Social Progress Play a Role? Population Association of America. Chicago, IL.

Wolf JK and JS Cossman. Exploring the Power of County-Level Regional Classifications on Predicting All-Cause Mortality in the United States. Population Association of America. Chicago, IL.

Wolf JK, JS Cossman, and DJ Myers. Exploring the Importance of Regional Classification in U.S. Sex-Specific Mortality Rates. North Central Sociological Association. Indianapolis, IN.

2016

Cossman JS, JK Wolf, and DJ Myers. Understanding Spatial Variation in Mortality: Rural Regions and Cultural Variations. Southern Demographic Association. Athens, GA.

Cossman JS, WL James, and JK Wolf. The Influence of Public Health Infrastructure on Racial Mortality Disparities. Southern Demographic Association. Athens, GA. 

Wolf JK, JS Cossman, and DJ Myers. Exploring Woodard’s “American Nations” for Predicting Life Expectancy and Mortality by Sex across the Regions of the United States. Midwest Sociological Society/North Central Sociological Association Joint Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Cossman JS, DJ Myers, and JK Wolf. An Exploration of Woodard’s “American Nations” for Predicting Cause-Specific Mortality. Population Association of America. Washington DC. Poster session award winner.

Cossman JS, JK Wolf, and DJ Myers. Defining Regions and Understanding Rurality: Exploring Spatial Variations in American Mortality. Rural Sociological Society. Toronto, Canada.

Cossman JS, WL James, and JK Wolf. Race and Rural: An Investigation of the Rural Mortality Penalty and the Role of Public Health Infrastructure. Population Association of America. Washington D.C.

2015

Myers DJ, C Pilkerton, JS Cossman, and JK Wolf. An Exploration of Woodard’s “Cultural Nations” for Predicting Regional Mortality in the US. Southern Demographic Association. San Antonio, TX.