Employment

2013-present, Health Scientist (Supervisor), Mortality Statistics and Research Team, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics

2000-2013, Statistician Demography/Health Scientist, Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics

2009-2010, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland-College Park

1998-2000, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York-Stony Brook

1998, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1992-1995, Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1990-1992, Research Assistant, International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND EXTRAMURAL COLLABORATIONS

Principal Investigator:

2002-present “National Longitudinal Mortality Study NLMS and Mortality Disparities in American Communities MDAC research projects”, US Census Bureau.

Co-Investigator:

2023-present “Decennial Census 1850-1959 Mortality Linkage”, IPUMS, University of Minnesota

2012-2026 “Indian Health Service – Mortality Data Linkage Project”, Indian Health Service and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Technical Advisor:

2021-2024 “Economic Burden of Health Disparities Research Project”, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

2019-2025 “US Burden of Health Disparities by Race/Ethnicity at the County Level Research Project”, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

2018-2020  “Demographic Analysis DA”, US Census Bureau

Editorial Service:

2024-present Editorial Board Member, Populations, international, multidisciplinary open-access journal with focuses on demography-and population-related issues.

Peer Reviewer:                                                                                                                              

American Journal of Public Health                                         American Sociological Review  

BMJ Public Health                                                                      Bulletin of the World Health Organization  

Demography                                                                                Demographic Research

European Journal of Epidemiology                                         Health Affairs

Health Reports                                                                            Internal Medicine Journal

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research                               Journal of Aging and Health

Journal of American Medical Association Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences

Lancet Lancet Regional Health Americas

Mayo Clinic Proceedings Nature Medicine

Pan American Health Organization Population Health Metrics

Preventive Medicine Reports Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Journal

Sociological Science