Creating a Community of Scholars from Across the University of Michigan
Leadership
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Vicki A. Freedman , Director
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Ph.D., Epidemiology, Yale University
Freedman F-JInterests
Dr. Freedman has published extensively on the topics of population aging, disability trends and long-term care and has investigated the connections among disability, time use and wellbeing in later life. She has co-led the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the National Study of Caregiving since their inception and has served as an Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Through these efforts she has been instrumental in disseminating new measures to study disability and care needs of older adults.
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Esther Friedman , External Innovative Networks Director
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Friedman F-JInterests
Dr. Friedman’s research examines how families and communities facilitate the health and wellbeing of older adults. Much of her recent work focuses on family caregiving, including social support networks of family caregivers, the economic costs of family caregiving, and current and future kin availability for dementia care. Dr. Friedman leads MiCDA’s Network core and Longitudinal Studies on Aging in the U.S. Network.
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Helen Levy , MiCDA Enclave Director
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Professor, School of Public Health & Gerald R. Ford School of Public PolicyPh.D., Health Economics, Princeton University
Levy K-OInterests
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.
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