Melissa Knox’s research focuses on the economic and health impacts of increased access to health care services and health-promoting technologies, including pharmaceuticals. She is also interested in the role that health and health care access play in the structure and function of the family, especially with regards to fertility and childhood investment decisions. Recently, she has investigated the impacts of Mexico’s universal health insurance program, Seguro Popular, on health, education, and labor market participation. She is also currently working on a model of the impact of sex ratio imbalances on the marriage market in China.
Marieka Klawitter focuses her research on how public policies affect family work and income. Her work includes studies of the effects of child support, welfare, asset-building, and anti-discrimination policies for sexual orientation.
With Anjum Hajat and Crystal Hall, Klawitter is currently assessing the relationship of financial stress to health outcomes and the impacts of workplace financial coaching. With Leigh Anderson and Mary Kay Gugerty, Klawitter has explored multiple measures of personal values of time and how they affect the ability of low income families to save within a matched saving program.
Danuta Kasprzyk is a Research Professor at the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing. She spent the first six years of her career on the faculty at the University of Washington, in the Department of Community Health Care Systems, in the School of Nursing. She then moved to Battelle and was a research scientist for over 20 years in the Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation. Her research interests include psychology, public health,
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Donna Johnson’s research at the UW has been devoted to bringing the rigors of academic thinking to the practice of public health nutrition. Her research interests include pediatric nutrition, efficacy of public health nutrition interventions, and public health approaches to obesity, and she seeks to advance understandings about the process of public health practice in the core functions of assessment, assurance, and policy development. In the past decade she has published results of studies on the impact of nutrition and physical activity policies in school and child care settings,
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Darryl Holman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology (Biocultural program), and an affiliate of CSDE and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. His research lies at the intersection of biological anthropology and population studies, integrating traditional microdemographic methods with biomarker and statistical models of biocultural processes (Holman 2000b). His research on age-specific total fecundability and total fetal loss in Bangladeshi women (Holman et al. 1998, 2000; Holman and Wood in press) establish that total fecundability is constant across most of the reproductive lifespan,
Charles Hirschman’s current research priorities focus on immigration to the United States, race and ethnic disparities in educational attainment, and the formation of race and ethnic identities. He also studies demographic change in Southeast Asia, fertility and the family, and ethnic stratification. Over the last decade, his research has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Over the last decade,
Heather Hill is a Professor in the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. She has a BA (political science) from UW, a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University. Her research examines how public and workplace policies influence family economic circumstances and child well-being and development in low-income families. Hill conducts experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental research using both quantitative and qualitative data.
Jerald Herting’s research over the past two decades has primarily focused on adolescent health and mental health behaviors evaluating health promotion intervention programs and exploring the role of social/environmental context on these health and related behaviors, both at the individual and aggregate level. This work has also included examining the successful life course transition from adolescence to young adulthood. Recently Herting has also initiated projects directed at studying healthy aging and frailty in the aged population.