• Joshua Gabriel S. Tobias

    PhD Student at The University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Joshua G. S. Tobias is a Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology) graduate student at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to UAB, he worked as a research assistant at the Veterans Research & Education Foundation of St. Louis in Missouri. He received his master’s degree in Sociology from Saint Louis University and his bachelor’s degree in Sociology (with a triple concentration in Gender and Family, Social Problems, & Development Studies) & Anthropology with a minor in English (magna cum laude) from the University of Guam. His research broadly examines minority health & health disparities through the intersection of medical sociology, urban sociology, the sociology of mental illness, and public health.

     

    Born and raised in the Philippines, Joshua has come of age in his adoptive home of Guam in Micronesia

  • Education

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    The University of Alabama at Birmingham 

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Medical Sociology

    In Progress

    Dissertation Title: "Coming of Age: Examing Medical Expenditures and Utilization among Millennials Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), 2010-2019."

     

    Committee Members: Magdalena Szaflarski, Ph.D. (Advisor & Dissertation Committee Chair), David J. Becker, Ph.D., Cindy L. Cain, Ph.D., Bisakha Sen, Ph.D., David F. Warner, Ph.D.

     

    Areas: Medical Sociology; Sociology of Health Care; Social Capital/Social Ties & Health; Mental Health & Minority Mental Health

     

    Subspecialties: Health Care Systems Access & Utilization; Space, Place, & Health; Social Networks

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    Saint Louis University

    Master of Arts (M.A.) in Sociology - Public Sociology

    Graduate Minor in Research Methodology

    Degree Date: May 2017

     Thesis: “Håfa Tatatmanu Hao? Examining Pacific Islander Health Disparities of Contemporary Guam”

     

    Committee Members: Hisako Mastuo, Ph.D. (Advisor & Thesis Committee Chair), J.S. Onesimo-Sandoval, Ph.D., Anne Perez Hattori, Ph.D.

     

    Areas: Health and the Environment; Race and Ethnicity

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    University of Guam

    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Sociology (Gender and Family Studies, Social Problems Studies, & Development Studies Concentration)
     

    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Anthropology
    Minor in English

    Degree Date: December 2013

    Mentor(s): Kirk Johnson, Ph.D.

    David Atienza de Frutos, Ph.D.

     

  • Publications

    Current Publications List

    Peer-Reviewed Publication

    • Szaflarski, Magdalena, Joseph D. Wolfe, Joshua Gabriel S. Tobias, Ismail Mohammed, and Jerzy P. Szaflarski. 2020. "Poverty, Insurance, and Region as Predictors of Epilepsy Treatment Among U.S. Adults." Epilepsy & Behavior 107(2020).

    Book Review

    • Tobias, Joshua Gabriel S. and Magdalena Szaflarski. 2021. “Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America” Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved.
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