Marne Decker

Marne is a first year Ph.D. student in Sociology. Her research interests include neighborhoods, social networks, health, and crime. Marne’s research focuses on how attributes of place, including the built environment and social context, influence the ways in which social relationships are formed and the attributes of these relationships. She is also interested in how our environments and relationships are important for health and crime – two phenomena that are experienced at the individual level but become characteristic of neighborhoods and other units of place. She approaches this research using a range of quantitative methods and is deeply informed by her previous training in epidemiology at Yale’s School of Public Health. Marne received her MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology in May 2025.