Rate My Professor James House

House's research focuses on social and psychological factors influencing health and illness, starting with occupational stress and health in the 1970s, advancing to social relationships and support in the 1980s-1990s, and emphasizing psychosocial contributors to health disparities and aging. As founding principal investigator or co-investigator, he led landmark studies: Americans' Changing Lives (ACL), Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC), and Chicago Community Adult Health Study (CCAHS). His scholarship has earned election to the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Key publications include Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death, and Social Policy (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015); co-edited Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy and A Telescope on Society: Survey Research & Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond; and highly cited articles such as 'Work Stress and Social Support' (1981), 'Social Relationships and Health' (1988), and 'Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behaviors, and Mortality' (1998). House has taught courses on social psychology, health determinants, and policy implications.