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= Hui Liu =

Dr. Hui (Cathy) Liu (born 1977) is a sociologist working at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, Michigan. She is the Director of the Family and Population Health Laboratory, in which her research broadly focuses on the quantitative effects that aging, marriage, sexuality, and family processes have on lifetime population health. She is also a Professor in the Department of Sociology of the College of Social Science at MSU. In 2017 she became an elected fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. In the same year, she received an honorable mention for the Friedson Award, and later won the IPUMS Research Award for Best Published Work, which she won again in 2019. Liu was the winner of the 2012 Outstanding Professional Paper Award from the National Council on Family Relations. She has also won an NIH career award for Mentored Research Scientist Development.

Early Life and Education
Liu was born in 1977 in Linfen, Shanxi Province, P.R. China. She resided there with her family until 1995, when she moved to Tianjin, P.R. China to attend Nankai University. She received a B.A in economics (majoring in International Business Administration) from Nankai University in 1999, continuing on to receive an M.A in economics from the same institution in 2002. Liu continued her education in the United States at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving an M.S. in Statistics in 2007 and completing her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the same institution in 2008.

Career
Following the completion of her Ph.D., Liu began working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Liu has remained at the MSU Department of Sociology since, being promoted to an Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2017. In 2009, Liu became a core faculty member of the Center for Gender in Global Context at MSU. In 2016, Liu became a Faculty Affiliate in both the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and the Center for Advanced Study of International Development at MSU. Additionally, in 2018 Liu worked at the University of Michigan Department of Sociology as a Visiting Scholar, and in 2019 became a Faculty Affiliate of the Population Studies Center at the same institution. In 2019, Liu became the Founder and Director of the Family and Population Health Laboratory at Michigan State University. Throughout her career, she has also had a plethora of significant appearances in invited talks, conference presentations, and television and radio interviews. She also has served as a deputy editor for Sociological Perspectives and as an editorial board member for multiple journals, including the American Sociological Review, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Research
Liu’s research has made significant strides in the fields of Population Health, Family and Marriage, Demography of Sexuality and LGBT populations, and Gender, Race, and Ethnicity. She may be most well-known for her research surrounding marriage and potential physical and social health impacts. This includes some of her more recent papers linking married couples to a significant decrease in associated risk of developing dementia, with divorced couples having nearly twice the risk of married couples. Along these lines, some of her earliest research (2008) utilizing over 32 years of health data found that married individuals were overall in better health than those who had never been married, but that the gap has become narrowed in recent years. Yet, Liu has also shown that quality of the marriage matters; in the first nationally representative study of its kind in 2014, her research showed that older couples with poor marriage quality (especially female spouses) were at a greatly increased risk of heart disease compared to those in happy marriages. She also determined a link between older men that are more sexually active and an increased risk for heart disease as they continue to age.

Liu’s research regarding LGBT population health has also left a significant impact in the field of sociology. Pertaining to her martial studies, in 2017 Liu found a link between marriage of transgender individuals and a decrease in experienced instances of discrimination. Additionally, Liu’s research has reported an increased risk in the development of diabetes in sexual minorities which she suggests is likely due to the increased stress from discrimination placed on them during adolescence. Following this research line, in 2020 Liu was Editor-in-Chief of a book entitled “Marriage and Health: the Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples” published by the Rutgers University Press.

Liu currently has multiple ongoing research projects. The NIH is presently funding two of her studies, which independently involve marital links to Alzheimer’s disease and the health consequences of differences in race regarding the exposure to death throughout an individual’s life course. Additionally, Liu has research in progress pertaining to sexuality in older couples and LGBT population health.

Family
Dr. Liu lives in Okemos, Michigan with her husband and two sons.

Awards and Honors
●      2020 MSU College of Social Science Faculty Research Award

●      2019 IPUMS Research Award for the Best Published Work

●      2018 Honorable mention for the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award, Pacific Sociological Association

●      2017 IPUMS Research Award for the Best Published Work

●      2017 Honorable mention for the Friedson Award, ASA Medical Sociology Section

●      2017 Elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America

●      2014 Butler-Williams Scholar, National Institute on Aging

●      2013-2019 Mentored Research Scientist Development, National Institutes of Health

●      2011 Rand Summer Institute Travel Scholarship

●      2006-2008 Professional Development Awards, The University of Texas at Austin

●      2006 Junior Scholar Award, Department of Sociology, the Ohio State University

Affiliations
●      American Sociological Association

●      Population Association of America

●      Elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America

●      National Council on Family Relations

●      Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science

●      Southern Demographic Association

Selected Publications
●      Liu, Hui, Corinne Reczek, Lindsey Wilkinson. 2020. "Marriage and Health: The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples." Rutgers University Press.

●      Liu, Hui and Corinne Reczek. In press. “Birth Cohort Trends in Health Disparities by Sexual Orientation." Demography.

●      Liu, Hui, Ning Hsieh, Zhenmei Zhang, Yan Zhang and Kenneth Langa. In press. “Same-Sex Couples and Cognitive Impairment: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

●      Liu, Hui, Zhenmei Zhang, Seung-won Choi, and Kenneth Langa. 2020. “Marital Status and Dementia: Evidence from the Health Retirement Study.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 75(8):1783-1795.

●      Liu, Hui, Shannon Shen, and Ning Hsieh. 2019. “A National Dyadic Study of Oral Sex, Relationship Quality and Well-being among Older Couples.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 74(2):298-308.

●      Liu, Hui, and Lindsey Wilkinson. 2017. “Marital Status and Perceived Discrimination among Transgender People.” Journal of Marriage and Family 79(5):1295–1313.

●      Liu, Hui, Linda Waite, Shannon Shen, and Donna Wang. 2016. “Is Sex Good for Your Health? A National Study on Partnered Sexuality and Cardiovascular Risk Among Older Men and Women.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 57(3): 276–296.

●      Liu, Hui and Linda Waite. 2014. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325990/ “Bad Marriage, Broken Heart? Age and Gender Differences in the Link between Marital Quality and Cardiovascular Risks among Older Adults.”] Journal of Health and Social Behavior 55: 403–423.

●      Liu, Hui, Corinne Reczek, and Dustin Brown. 2013. “Same-Sex Cohabitors and Health: The Role of Race- Ethnicity, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 54(1): 25 –45.

●      Liu, Hui. 2012. “Marital Dissolution and Self-Rated Health: Age Trajectories and Birth Cohort Variations.” Social Science & Medicine 74: 1107-1116.

●      Liu, Hui and Debra Umberson. 2008. “The Times They Are A Changin’: Marital Status and Health Differentials From 1972 to 2003.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49:239–253.