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Meet the Team

Founders

  • Lucie Kalousová

    Lucie Kalousová

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society Assistant Professor of Sociology

  • Katherine Wen

    Katherine Wen

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and of Public Policy

  • Rachel Donnelly

    Rachel Donnelly

    Assistant Professor of Sociology

Affiliated Members

  • Laura M. Carpenter

    Associate Professor of Sociology

    Gender, Sexuality, Health (and the Life Course)

  • Mark Chin

    Peabody College, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations

    Education Policy, Adolescent-to-Adulthood Transitions and Outcomes, Social Inequality

  • Taylor Harman

    Anthropological Health and Data Science Lab, Department of Anthropology

    Human health, human evolution, maternal & infant health

  • Martha Weare Myers Jones

    Department of Medicine, Health and Society

    Economic demography, occupational health, workers’ compensation

  • Christopher A. Julian

    Post-doctoral Scholar, LGBTQ+ Policy Lab, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society

    Family Demography, Sexuality and Gender, Survey Methodology 

  • Monica Keith

    Anthropology

    Maternal and child health, climate health impacts, cardiometabolic health

  • Zheng (Noah) Lian

    PhD student in the Department of Sociology, Team member on the HEAL project and affiliated with the Center for Research on Inequality and Health

    Medical sociology, Aging and the Life course, and AI and Society

  • Blake Powell

    Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology

    Health, Social Networks, and Public Policy

  • Anyah Prasad

    Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Medicine, Health and Society

    The effect of social stress on subjective age, biological age, and healthy longevity; social networks and cognitive health; mindbody behavioral interventions for positive aging

  • Clifford Ross

    Department of Medicine, Health, & Society and Sociology

    Health disparities, medical sociology, aging

  • Emmy Schuler

    The HEAL Project at Vanderbilt, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society

    Aging and the life course; life course transitions; later-life health disparities

  • Matthew Tarizzo

    Department of Sociology

    Immigration, Health, and Education

  • Leping Wang

    Department of Sociology

    Aging and the life course, Medical Sociology, Family demography

  • Zhe Zhang

    Department of Sociology

    Singlehood, Policy, Population Health