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Sumit Agarwal

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health
Dr. Sumit Agarwal, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. is a primary care physician, health economist, and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health. Agarwal’s research examines the impact of social, economic, and in...
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Katherine Bauer

Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Katherine (Kate) W. Bauer is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on the prevention of childhood obesity, which severely disproportionately impacts children in poverty. Much of her work focuses on the role of families in children's and adolescent...
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Sarah Burgard

Director, Population Studies Center; Professor of Sociology; Research Professor, Population Studies Center; Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology (by courtesy)
Sarah Burgard is a professor of sociology and, by courtesy, of epidemiology and public policy at the University of Michigan. She is also a research professor in and director of the Population Studies Center and a research affiliate in the Survey Rese...
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Kate Cagney

Director of the Institute for Social Research, Professor of Sociology
Kathleen A. Cagney, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and professor of sociology. Her research examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. He...
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Debra Chopp

Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic
Debra Chopp is the associate dean for experiential education, clinical professor of law, and director of the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic at Michigan Law. Her research, teaching, and legal practice focus primarily on education law, family law/domestic v...
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Gabriel Cuellar

Assistant Professor of Architecture
Gabriel Cuéllar is an assistant professor in architecture. His design-research focuses on collective landholding practices, housing justice, contemporary environmental politics, and the role of architecture in struggles for spatial justice. He is an ...
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Carina Gronlund

Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health
Carina Gronlund is an environmental epidemiologist and research associate professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and the School of Public Health. With community and government partners, she characterizes how social, eco...
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Pamela Herd

Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy
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Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, aging, and policy. She is als...
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Noura Insolera

Assistant Research Scientist at Institute for Social Research, Assistant Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Noura Insolera is an assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research and assistant director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Insolera's research focuses on health, educational, and socioeconomic outcomes of income inequality a...
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William Lopez

Clinical Associate Professor, U-M School of Public Health; Faculty Associate, U-M Department of Latino/a Studies
William D. Lopez is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and faculty associate in the Department of Latina/o Studies. His research and teaching center on racial health inequities, especially those exper...
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Roshanak Mehdipanah

Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity; Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Roshanak Mehdipanah specializes in innovative research methods, including realist evaluations and concept mapping to develop conceptual frameworks linking complex interventions to health. She has published in the areas of urban renewal, housing and p...
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Sarah A. Stoddard

Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Behavior and Health Education
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Sarah Stoddard is an associate professor of health behavior and health education at U-M's School of Public Health, director of training and education core at U-M's Injury Prevention Center, co-lead of data and design core at the Eisenberg Family Depr...
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John Bulat

Data and Policy Analyst
John Bulat is a data and policy analyst at Poverty Solutions. His work focuses primarily on the opioid crisis in Michigan and criminal justice-related topics. Prior to working at Poverty Solutions, Bulat spent eight years at the Center for Urban Stu...
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In the Media

Michigan's new solution for childhood poverty? Give moms cash.

Oct 19, 2026 Read the Crain's Detroit article
Child poverty isn’t just a moral issue, experts say. It also has lifetime implications for academic achievement, career earnings, mental and physical health, chance of incarceration, dependence on social programs, and life expectancy.
Rx Kids Baby Parade in Flint, MI 2025
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Hillary Clinton: How to Fix Affordability

Apr 9, 2026 New York Times
American families are raising children now, in an economy where both parents work to make ends meet and child care costs rival rent, in a country with no national paid leave and in a digital world they cannot control. Instead of lectures, families ne...
Rx Kids launch press conference. From left to right: Mama Sol, Ridgway White, Luke Shaefer, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Flint mom, Alana Turner, Mona Hanna-Attisha, Teresa Woodruff, Sheldon Neeley, a Flint mom, Day Austin, and Jim Ananich.