Anne Blumenthal is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Program in Social Work & Sociology at University of Michigan. In her research, she uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches to answer questions related to structural processes and determinants of child well-being. Her work has been published in the journals Child Welfare, Children and Youth Services Review, Child Indicators Research and Qualitative Social Work, among other outlets. The overarching motivation for her research is to inform policy conversations on concrete supports for marginalized families.

Dr. Hu is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Demography of Aging, Disability and Care Program within the Survey Research Center. She received her Ph.D. in Survey Methodology at the University of Michigan in 2018. Her current research interests include the identification and reduction of measurement errors in cross-cultural surveys, survey non-response, longitudinal survey data analysis, methodological issues in surveys with older populations, and the use of machine learning in survey research. Dr. Hu is currently collaborating with the National Health and Aging Trends Study and National Study of Caregiving as a co-Investigator to enhance user outreach and evaluate new data collection designs.

Dr. Sarah E. Patterson is a Demographer and Sociologist. Currently, she is a Research Assistant Professor at the Survey Research Center and a Faculty Affiliate at the Population Studies Center, both at the University of Michigan. She is working on projects related to families, aging, and caregiving. More broadly, her research addresses whether and how social norms influence attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes related to the family. Her research falls into the following three domains: the demography of aging and the life course; family demography and intergenerational inequality; and, gender inequality at the work/family nexus.

Maureen E. Skehan, MSPH, is a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She documents and disseminates research data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC). She is also responsible for oversight of operational and administrative aspects of of the National Health and Aging Trends Study funded by the National Institute on Aging. Ms. Skehan received her master of science in public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.