Her primary research interests focus on "how social factors experienced across the lifecourse, such as educational attainment and work environment, influence cognitive function, memory loss, stroke and other health outcomes in old age."
[3] Upon completing her Master's and Doctoral degree, Glymour became a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar in Social Epidemiology and subsequently joined the faculty at Harvard University.
Her primary research interests focus on "how social factors experienced across the lifecourse, such as educational attainment and work environment, influence cognitive function, memory loss, stroke and other health outcomes in old age.
[7] In 2014, Glymour co-published "Short- and long-term associations between widowhood and mortality in the United States: longitudinal analyses," which was a population sample study that suggested rates of death nearly double during the first three months after the loss of a spouse, and quickly taper thereafter.
[9] The following year, Glymour, Erika L. Sabbath, Iván Mejía-Guevara, and Lisa F. Berkman earned the Kalish Award from the Gerontological Society of America in the article category for "Use of Life Course Work-Family Profiles to Predict Mortality Risk among U.S.