Dr. Norton has a long-standing interest in long-term care and aging. He also uses modern econometrics to control for endogeneity and obtain causal estimates.
Dr. Norton has a long-standing interest in long-term care and aging. He also uses modern econometrics to control for endogeneity and obtain causal estimates.
Dr. Mitchell is interested in the influence of the social and familial environmental on health and behavior over the life course. His earlier research focused mainly on the social environment and child and young adult behavior in early life. Over the last decade, he has expanded on this research by examining how social contextual factors interact with genetic, epigenetic, and neurodevelopment factors to predict health and wellbeing over the life course, including in later life.
Dr. Mehdipanah’s research interests focus on social determinants of health including aging, ethnicity, and gender and their link to various health outcomes including mental health, physical health and overall wellbeing. Her current research focuses on the relationship between housing and health in later life.
Dr. Maust’s research interests focus on ensuring that older adults with mental health and cognitive disorders receive targeted, timely, and appropriate intervention.
Dr. Mahmoudi’s research interests include evaluating healthcare policies, reducing disparities in access to quality healthcare, and optimizing care management for patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Dr. Levenstein’s research focuses on the evolution of information systems and relationship with firm organization, historical changes in firm competition, information networks, contemporary international cartels, and the design of competition policies for a global economy. She currently directs the Institute for Social Research’s Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and serves as a MiCDA Advisory Panel Member.
Dr. Leggett’s research focuses on the development of a taxonomy of dementia caregiving care management styles and determining how style might be used to target interventions and optimize care. She is also working to study family caregiving networks more broadly and intersections with health and well-being for persons living with dementia.
Dr. Langa’s research focuses on the epidemiology and costs of chronic disease in older adults, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Dr. Langa’s is currently studying the relationship of cardiovascular risk factors to cognitive decline and dementia in middle-age and older adults. He serves as an Associate Director for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and as a MiCDA Advisory Panel Member.
Dr. Kowalski specializes in bringing together theoretical models and econometric techniques to answer questions that inform current debates in health care. Her recent research advances methods to analyze experiments and clinical trials with the goal of designing policies to target insurance expansions and medical treatments to vulnerable populations.
Dr. Karvonen-Gutierrez’s research focuses on the impact of chronological aging, reproductive aging and obesity and their intersections. She also studies the development and progression of chronic disease and musculoskeletal outcomes through the creation of a metabolically-dysfunctional and pro-inflammatory environment.