Dr. Jennifer Van Hook is Professor of Sociology and Demography and Center Director of the Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University.

In his current research on immigration, Professor Mouw is analyzing the effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of native workers using a unique data set of restricted-access employer-employee data (the Longitudinal Employer Household Data “LEHD”) at the Triangle Census Research Data Center.

Professor Root’s research is situated at the intersection of geography and public health.

Jane Cooley Fruehwirth is an economist with research interests in the determinants of social, economic and racial inequality.

Joanna (‘Asia’) Maselko is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist whose research aims to identify mechanisms through which the social environment impacts the development of common neuropsychiatric disorders.

Melinda Mills is the Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Editor-in-Chief of the European Sociological Review.

Professor Curtis is a statistical demographer whose research and administrative efforts have focused on monitoring and evaluation of global population and health programs and family planning and reproductive health.

Professor Speizer is trained as a demographer and evaluation researcher, and has led research and evaluation studies on family planning, HIV prevention, intimate partner violence, and adolescent reproductive health programs in sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, and India.

Dr. Short's research examines changing social and demographic environments and their implications for family dynamics, gender, health, and well-being.

The state of early child care in a society—how accessible it is to families in need, how good it is for children—is a core component of the health, wellbeing, and productivity of the population, but the state of early child care in the U.S. is characterized by considerable inequality.