Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology, M.P.H. in Health Management and Policy, and M.A. in Statistics from the University of Michigan. She is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and is affiliated with the Center… Continue reading Smith,Jennifer Ann
Research Theme: Aging & Retirement
Finlay,Jessica Marie
Dr. Jessica Finlay is a research investigator in the Social Environment and Health Program at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. She is a health geographer and environmental gerontologist with an MA and PhD in Geography and Gerontology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Finlay is an interdisciplinary health geographer who uses mixed… Continue reading Finlay,Jessica Marie
Rostant,Ola S
Dr. Ola Rostant is a research investigator in the Health and Retirement Study. She has a PhD in Measurement and Quantitative Methods from Michigan State University and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program and a mental health services research fellow in the University of Michigan’s department of… Continue reading Rostant,Ola S
Sonnega,Amanda J
Amanda Sonnega, PhD, is a Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan (UM), where she is responsible for integrating communication, outreach, and education efforts for the Health and Retirement Study. She received her doctorate through the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at… Continue reading Sonnega,Amanda J
Jess Francis
Jess Francis received her PhD in Information and Media Studies from Michigan State University in 2018. Upon graduating, she completed a year-long postdoctoral fellowship in clinical and translational science at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Center for Health + Technology. Most recently she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the SRC’s Life Course Development… Continue reading Jess Francis
Shapiro,Matthew D
Dr. Shapiro is a macroeconomist who has carried out research on business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, consumption and saving, financial decision-making, economics of aging, and economic measurement. His current research includes using naturally-occurring data, also known as big data, for studying economic outcomes. This work uses checking and credit card accounts to estimate how… Continue reading Shapiro,Matthew D
Clarke,Philippa J
Dr. Clarke received her graduate training in Epidemiology/Social Science and Health from the University of Toronto. She is a social epidemiologist and social gerontologist with substantive and methodological expertise in the role of the environment for healthy aging and disability. Her research examines the role of neighborhood built, physical, and social environments for disability, cognitive function,… Continue reading Clarke,Philippa J
Faul,Jessica Danielle
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 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),… Continue reading Faul,Jessica Danielle
Freedman,Vicki A
Dr. Freedman is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. She is currently the Director of the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging. Over the past decade Freedman has held leadership roles in several national survey efforts. She has co-led the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the… Continue reading Freedman,Vicki A
Jacqui Smith
Dr. Smith applies life course and lifespan developmental theory to the study of health and well-being in later life. Her research focuses on age- and health-related changes in subjective well-being, self-related beliefs, and cognition in midlife and old age and the effects of early-life experiences on late-life outcomes. She is currently PI of a project… Continue reading Jacqui Smith