Jessica Faul is a Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. She is the Co-Director of the Health and Retirement Study, the largest study of Americans over age 50 in the United States. She is also the co-director of the Biospecimen Lab at ISR, and is affiliated with the Michigan Center on Demography and Aging (MiCDA), the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), and the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center.  Dr. Faul’s research integrates biological, genetic and social science data to examine social, behavioral, and biological predictors of health and aging. Dr. Faul currently co-leads the NIA-sponsored Biomarker Network which aims to develop an interdisciplinary group of scientists dedicated to improved measurement of biological risk for late life health outcomes in large population-representative samples.