Research Theme: Health
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
Webster,Noah J
Noah J. Webster, Ph.D. is an Research Associate Professor in the Life Course Development Program at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Dr. Webster’s research focuses on the interrelated themes of: 1) the bidirectional influences of health, health-related behaviors and social relationships; and 2) the role of environmental and social contexts in shaping… Continue reading Webster,Noah J
Heeringa,Steven G
Steven G. Heeringa is Research Scientist Emeritus at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). He is a member of the Faculty of the University of Michigan Program in Survey Methods and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and elected member of the International… Continue reading Heeringa,Steven G
Causal Mechanisms for Sustainable Adaptation to Adverse Heat and Precipitation Health Effects
Wide socioeconomic disparities exist in heat-associated morbidity and mortality. Working with local officials and community leaders to understand the housing and health characteristics that increase vulnerability to heat-associated health effects will help identify optimal and sustainable alternatives to air conditioning for adapting to increasing extreme-heat events.
The ISR BioSpecimen Lab
The biospecimen facility is designed to inventory, analyze, and provide short-term storage of biological samples collected by ISR researchers. This continues ISR’s leadership in the collection and analysis of representative, population-based data with the goal of providing social science in the public interest. The BioSpecimen Lab Advantage The lab provides ISR researchers with much better… Continue reading The ISR BioSpecimen Lab
Youth Policy Lab
The University of Michigan Youth Policy Lab is a partnership between Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. The Youth Policy Lab helps community and government agencies make better decisions by measuring what really works. We are data experts who believe that the government… Continue reading Youth Policy Lab
Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA)
The Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA) promotes new research on the demography and economics of aging across four signature themes: chronic disease and disability; life course determinants of late-life health and well-being; aging, genetics, and social science; and economics of savings and retirement. The Center also promotes the wide use of Michigan’s… Continue reading Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA)
Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth (MTF)
Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is an ongoing epidemiological and etiological research and reporting project that began in 1975. In addition to being a basic research study, MTF has become one of the nation’s most relied upon sources of information on emerging trends in illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use among American adolescents, college students,… Continue reading Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth (MTF)