Dr. Fleming is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity and the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and an affiliate of the University of Michigan Population Studies Center. He focuses his work on the root causes of racial health inequities and strategies to address them. He conducts community-based… Continue reading Fleming,Paul
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Cagney,Kathleen Anne
Kathleen Cagney, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. Her work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. Her general aim is to bring insights from urban sociological theory and methods to research on health. In… Continue reading Cagney,Kathleen Anne
Grace Noppert
Dr. Noppert’s work lies at the intersection of biology, sociology, and epidemiology. Her work seeks to explain how social processes across the life course, such as socioeconomic status, impact a person’s biology. For example, does experiencing persistent disadvantage throughout life contribute to premature aging of the immune system? She began her work as an infectious… Continue reading Grace Noppert
Levy,Helen G
Dr. Levy’s research interests include the causes and consequences of lacking health insurance, evaluation of public health insurance programs, and material hardship among older Americans. She is a Co-Investigator on the Health and Retirement Study, a long-running longitudinal study of health and economic dynamics at older ages.
Mick Couper
Dr. Couper’s current research interests include survey non-response, design and implementation of survey data collection, effects of technology on the survey process, and computer-assisted surveys, including both interviewer-administered (CATI and CAPI) and self-administered (web, audio-CASI, IVR) surveys. His current projects focus on consent to administrative record linkage, and participation rates and selection biases associated with… Continue reading Mick Couper
Chardoul,Stephanie A
Stephanie Chardoul is the Director of Survey Research Operations (SRO) at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center. Ms. Chardoul has 30 years of experience in all phases of survey research. During her tenure at SRC, she has been the Manager of the Survey Services Laboratory (telephone facility), Senior Survey Director, Director of the Project… Continue reading Chardoul,Stephanie A
Schulenberg,John E
Dr. Schulenberg has published widely on several topics concerning adolescence and the transition to adulthood, bringing a developmental perspective to understanding health risks and difficulties. He helps direct the NIDA-funded national Monitoring the Future study on the etiology and epidemiology of substance use, focusing on individual and contextual risk factors, course, co-morbidity, consequences, and historical variation… Continue reading Schulenberg,John E
Patrick, Megan E.
Megan Patrick’s published research focuses on the development of substance use and consequences across the lifespan. Her interests include motivations for substance use, the prevention of health risk behaviors, statistical methods for modeling behavior and behavior change, and mobile and web-based survey methodology. She has been the PI of 10 NIH-funded projects and Co-Investigator on… Continue reading Patrick, Megan E.
Veliz,Philip Todd
Dr. Veliz’s research primarily involves examining large-scale secondary data sets to assess adolescent substance use, health, and participation in organized sports. As a data analyst, Dr. Veliz has published extensively using data sets like the Monitoring the Future, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and Office of Civil Rights Data Collection and continues to work with new… Continue reading Veliz,Philip Todd
Miech,Richard Allen
Dr. Miech is the principal investigator of the NIDA-funded Monitoring the Future study. He received his Ph.D. degree in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University. His work focuses on trends in substance use, with an emphasis on disentangling how these trends vary by… Continue reading Miech,Richard Allen