Joseph Saenz
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500 N 3rd Street Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 3020Campus: Dtphx
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Joseph Saenz is an assistant professor with the Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging. He focuses his work on understanding and explaining disparities in late-life cognitive outcomes using socioeconomic status, marriage, resilience, and environmental exposures throughout the life-course. He is especially interested in health disparities within the Mexican origin population on both sides of the United States Mexico border.
Ph.D. in Population Health Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, 2016
B.S. in Psychology, Texas A&M University, 2011
Arce Rentería, M., Briceño, E.M., Chen, D., Saenz, J., Kobayashi, C., Gonzalez, C., Vonk, J.M.J., Jones, R.N., Manly, J.J., Wong, R., Weir, D., Langa, K.M., Gross, A.L. (2023). Memory and language cognitive data harmonization across the United States and Mexico. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 15(3), e12478
Farina, M.P., Saenz, J., Crimmins, E.M. (2023). Does adding MRI and CSF-based biomarkers improve cognitive status classification based on cognitive performance questionnaires?. PloS one, 18(5), e0285220. PMCID: PMC10166486.
Saenz, J., Beam, C.R., Kim, A.J. (2023). Development of a Latent Dementia Index in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study: Validation and Measurement Invariance by Sex. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. PMCID: PMC10175944.
Saenz, J., Milani, S.A., & Mejia, S. (2023). Gender, Personality, and Cognitive Resilience against Early-Life Disadvantage. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 78(5), 913-924. PMCID: PMC10174201.
Saenz, J., Kessler, J., & Nelson, E. (2022). Food Insecurity across the Life-Course and Cognitive Function among Older Mexican Adults. Nutrients, 14(7), 1462. PMCID: PMC9002944.
Franco, Y., Jang, Y., Saenz, J., & Ho, J. (2022). The Relationship between Multimorbidity and Types of Chronic Diseases and Self-Rated Memory. Research on Aging.
Saenz, J., Downer, B., Garcia, M., & Wong, R. (2022). Rural/Urban Dwelling across the Life-Course and Late-Life Cognitive Ability in Mexico. Social Science & Medicine Population Health. PMCID: PMC8800130.
Mejia, S., Avila, J., Downer, B., Garcia, M. A., Michaels-Obregon, A., Saenz, J., Samper-Ternent, R, & Wong, R. (2021). Effect of Demographic and Health Dynamics on Cognitive Status in Mexico between 2001 and 2015: Evidence from the Mexican Health and Aging Study. Geriatrics, 6(3), 63. PMCID: PMC8293108.
Saenz, J., Adar, S.D., Zhang, Y., Wilkens, J., Chattopadhyay, A., Lee, J., & Wong, R. (2021). Household Use of Polluting Cooking Fuels and Late-Life Cognitive Function: A Harmonized Analysis of India, Mexico, and China. Environment International, 156. PMCID: PMC8380666.
Saenz, J. (2021). Solid Fuel Use and Cognitive Decline among Older Mexican Adults. Indoor Air. 31(5), 1522-1532. PMCID: PMC8380681.
Torres, J.M., Yahirun, J., Sheehan, C., Ma, M. & Saenz, J. (2021). Adult Child Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Cognitive Decline among Older Adults. Social Science & Medicine. 279. PMCID: PMC8284312.
Rodriguez, F.S., & Saenz, J. (2021). Working in Old Age in Mexico: Implications for Cognitive Functioning. Ageing and Society.
Saenz, J.L. (2021). Spousal Support, Spousal Strain, and Loneliness among Older Mexican Couples. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 76(4), e176-e186. PMCID: PMC8253057.
Garcia, M., Downer, B., Chiu, C., Saenz, J., Ortiz, K., & Wong, R. (2021). Educational Benefits and Cognitive Health Life Expectancies: Racial/Ethnic, Nativity, and Gender Disparities. The Gerontologist. 61(3), 330-340. PMCID: PMC8023372.
Ma, M., Yahirun, J., Saenz, J., & Sheehan, C. (2021). The Influence of Offspring Education on Cognition among Older Adults in Mexico. Demography, 58(1), 75-109. PMCID: PMC7894606.
Saenz J., Díaz-Venegas, C., & Crimmins, E.M. (2021). Fertility History and Cognitive Function in Late-Life: The Case of Mexico. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 76(4), e140-152. PMCID: PMC7955970.
Meza, E., Eng, C.W., Saenz, J., Gilsanz, P., Glymour, M.M., & Torres, J.M. (2020). Elevated Depressive Symptoms and Risk of Stroke among the Mexican Older Population. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 68(11) 2579-2586. PMCID: PMC7745730.
Saenz J., Beam, C.R., & Zelinski, E.M. (2020). The Association between Spousal Education and Cognitive Ability among Older Mexican Adults. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 75(7), e129-e140. PMCID: PMC7424282.
Saenz, J., Garcia, M., & Downer, B. (2020). Late Life Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Function among Older Mexican Adults: The Past and the Present. Aging and Mental Health, 24(3), 413-422. PMCID: PMC6597334.
Hill, T., Saenz, J., & Rote, S. (2020). Religious Participation and Mortality Risk in Mexico. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 75(5), 1053-1061.
Saenz, J., Rote, S. (2019). Marital Power and Depressive Symptoms among Older Mexican Adults. Ageing & Society, 39(11), 2520-2540. PMCID: PMC6892469.
Garcia, M. Downer, B., Chiu, C., Rote, S., Saenz, J., Wong, R. (2019). Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Differences in Cognitive Life Expectancies among Older Adults in the United States. The Gerontologist, 59(2), 281-289. PMCID: PMC6417765.
Garcia, M., Saenz, J., Downer, B., Chiu, C., Rote, S., & Wong, R. (2018). Age of Migration Differentials in Life Expectancy with Cognitive Impairment: 20 Year Findings from the Hispanic-EPESE. The Gerontologist, 58(5), 894-903. PMCID: PMC6137351.
Saenz, J., Wong, R., & Ailshire, J. (2018). Indoor Air Pollution and Cognitive Function among Older Mexican Adults. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72(1), 21-26. PMCID: PMC5796803.
Parker, S., Saenz, J. & Wong, R. (2018). Health Insurance and the Aging: Evidence from the Seguro Popular Program in Mexico. Demography, 55(1), 361-386. PMCID: PMC5829015.
Garcia, M., Reyes, A.M., Downer, B., Saenz, J., Samper-Ternent, R.A., & Raji, M. (2018). Age of Migration and the Incidence of Cognitive Impairment: A Cohort Study of Elder Mexican-Americans. Innovation in Aging, 1(3). PMCID: PMC6243701.
Garcia, M., Downer, B., Saenz, J., Wong, R. (2018). The role of education in the association between race/ethnicity/nativity, cognitive impairment, and dementia among older adults in the United States. Demographic Research, 38, 155-167. PMCID: PMC6103452.
Saenz, J., Downer, B., Garcia, M., & Wong, R. (2018). Cognition and Context: Rural-Urban Differences in Cognitive Aging among Older Mexican Adults. Journal of Aging and Health, 30(6), 965-986. PMCID: PMC5623618.
Downer, B., Garcia, M., Saenz, J., Markides, K.S., & Wong, R. (2018). The Role of Education in the Relationship between Age of Migration to the United States and Risk of Cognitive Impairment among Older Mexican Americans. Research on Aging 40(5), 411-431. PMCID: PMC5503795.
Díaz-Venegas, C., Saenz, J. & Wong, R. (2017). Family Size and Old-Age Wellbeing, Effects of the Fertility Transition in Mexico. Ageing & Society, 37(3), 495-516. PMCID: PMC5321659.
Saenz, J., & Wong, R. (2016). Educational Gradients & Pathways of Disability Onset among Older Mexicans. Research on Aging, 38(3), 299-321. PMCID: PMC4843500.
Saenz, J., & Wong, R. (2015). A Life Course Approach to Mortality in Mexico. Salud Publica de Mexico, 57, s46-s53. PMCID: PMC4104697.
Siordia, C., & Saenz, J. (2013). On the Relationship between Neighborhood Perception, Length of Residence and Co-Ethnic Concentration. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 6(4), 267-284. PMCID: PMC4104697.
Siordia, C., & Saenz, J. (2013). What is a Neighborhood? Definition in Studies about Depressive Symptoms in Older Persons." The Journal of Frailty & Aging, 2(3), 153-164. PMCID: PMC4573636.
Siordia, C., Saenz, J., & Tom, S. E. (2012). An Introduction to Macro-Level Spatial Nonstationarity: a Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis of Diabetes and Poverty. Human Geographies, 6(2), 5-13. PMCID: PMC4235967.
Siordia, C., & Saenz, J. (2012). Neighborhood Perception and Obesity in Aged Mexican Americans. The Journal of Frailty & Aging, 1(4), 152-161. PMCID: PMC4223644.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HCR 230 | Culture and Health |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HCR 230 | Culture and Health |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HCR 494 | Special Topics |
HCR 493 | Honors Thesis |
NUR 799 | Dissertation |
HCR 494 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HCR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HCR 230 | Culture and Health |