Kusunoki,Yasamin Yoko

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Dr. Kusunoki’s interdisciplinary research program centers on women’s health, with a particular focus on the role of women’s intimate relationships and the mechanisms by which these relationships influence women’s reproductive and mental health. Her research is informed by the socioecological model and the life course perspective by centering women and their intimate relationships within the larger… Continue reading Kusunoki,Yasamin Yoko

Raghunathan,Trivellore E

7/17/19 Studio portrait of Social Res. Director Trivellore Raghunathan

Trivellore Raghunathan (Raghu) is a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. He is a Professor of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health. He is also a Research Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He served as Director of the Survey… Continue reading Raghunathan,Trivellore E

Maggie Levenstein

Margaret Levenstein is Director of ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Founded in 1962, ICPSR is the largest curated social science data archive in the world and a recipient of a 2019 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. Margaret Levenstein is Professor in the School of Information, Research Professor in the… Continue reading Maggie Levenstein

Erin Ware

Dr. Ware has a doctoral degree in epidemiology and master’s degrees in statistics and public health. Dr. Ware’s work for has been focused on health disparities in psychiatric epidemiology and high throughput statistical analysis of genomic data and its relationship to outcomes that show marked disparities across race/ethnic groups, socioeconomic groups and sexes. She also… Continue reading Erin Ware

Burgard,Sarah Andrea

Sarah Burgard conducts research on the social stratification of aging and health with population-based survey data, and has published extensively on the social factors underlying health disparities by socioeconomic status, gender, and race/ethnicity across the life course. Some of her recent research and funding has centered on understanding these questions in the context of economic… Continue reading Burgard,Sarah Andrea

Colter Mitchell

Dr. Mitchell’s research utilizes a range of biological data types such as epigenetics, neuroimaging, and genetics to better understand how social conditions shape population health. In particular his work uses these biomarkers to elucidate pathways by which social inequalities cause health inequalities. This research uses longitudinal population-based studies where biological data are collected at multiple… Continue reading Colter Mitchell

Axinn, William G

William Axinn is professor of survey research, population studies, sociology and public policy (by courtesy) and a faculty associate in South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. He directs the Society, Population, and Environment (SPE) program at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). The SPE program spans both the Survey Research… Continue reading Axinn, William G

West,Brady Thomas

Brady T. West is a Collegiate Research Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus, and also in the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in… Continue reading West,Brady Thomas

Shapiro,Matthew D

11/1/21 Studio headshot portraits of Matthew Shapiro.

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

Morenoff,Jeffrey D

Dr. Morenoff’s research interests focus on neighborhood environments and population dynamics, community and economic development, crime and criminal justice policy, the social determinants of health, and methods for analyzing multilevel and spatial data. He is also one of the faculty leads of the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS), an ongoing public opinion panel survey… Continue reading Morenoff,Jeffrey D