Geronimus is known for proposing the weathering hypothesis in 1992, which posits that cumulative racism experienced by black women cause them to experience inferior birth outcomes as their maternal age increases.
[4] Since originating the weathering hypothesis, Geronimus has extended it to implications for health across the life course for men and women in a variety of culturally oppressed, marginalized, or economically exploited social identity groups in the United States.
Geronimus' book, "WEATHERING: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society" is being published by Little Brown in March 2023.
[citation needed] Geronimus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics (A.B., 1978) from Princeton University, and a Doctor of Science (Sc.D., 1985) in behavioral sciences from the Harvard University School of Public Health.
[citation needed] Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society, 2023