<div class="field field-name-field-mpc-staff-bio field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I am a sociologist, demographer, population health scholar, and education policy researcher with experience and expertise in the collection, production, and dissemination of large-scale data products for research on health, aging, education, and labor force outcomes through my NIH- and NSF-funded work on High School and Beyond (HSB), the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), the 1940 U.S. Census, and the IPUMS version of the Current Population Surveys (IPUMS-CPS). I am involved in the construction of the new 100% count historical Census data sets for IPUMS, and I have two ongoing NIH-funded projects to link early 20th&nbsp;century U.S. Census data to (1) several modern surveys of older Americans, including the HRS, PSID, and WLS and (2) recent mortality records from the Social Security Administration.</p><p>&nbsp;I am currently Co-Director, with Theresa Osypuk, of the NICHD-funded&nbsp;<a href="https://pop.umn.edu/training/graduate/graduate-training-program-populat…; target="_blank">Training Program in Population Health Science</a>&nbsp;(T32HD095134).</p><p>With Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, and Jennifer Manly I am conducting follow-up surveys of the High School and Beyond cohort (with support from&nbsp;1R01AG058719-01A1).&nbsp; These ~25,500 people were first interviewed in high school in 1980.&nbsp; HS&amp;B data - including a 2021-2022 follow-up focused on the early-life predictors of cognitive impairment - provide leverage in understanding the roles of education, skills, and childhood social circumstances&nbsp; in shaping work, health, and cognitive well-being at midlife.</p></div></div></div>