Sarah M Flood
University of Minnesota, MN·Social Science
How do families, jobs, income, migration and aging shape the health of people in the United States, and why do health gaps between groups open or widen? Answering these questions takes large, consistent population data that researchers can actually use.
- Fields
Social Science
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
IPUMS CPS
Current Population Survey
data harmonization
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Expand IPUMS CPS, a harmonized data resource built from the Current Population Survey, by adding more than eight million person records from 65 new monthly and supplement files released between 2021 and 2026.
- Improve CPS data and metadata to support reproducible research. Let users choose which CPS data are linked and the formats they receive.
- Upgrade IPUMS CPS processing tools to deliver new data faster and lower long-term costs, and grow the user community through outreach, support and training.
- Support Life Course Center research on how social contexts and cumulative life experiences shape disparities in later-life functioning, disability, mortality and well-being among disadvantaged, minority, rural and sexual minority populations.
- Run pilot grant programs and the Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging, which introduces scholars to new big population data sources for life course research on aging.
More about the research
The work described here builds and supports that data infrastructure. It also supports a research center that uses population data to study aging across the life course.
Why it matters
Timely, easy-to-use population data allow researchers and policymakers to study health inequities, child and family well-being, and aging using sound evidence. This includes evaluating social safety net policies and how job loss affects families. Research on older adults could inform policies and care practices that improve later-life health and reduce disparities for disadvantaged, minority, rural and sexual minority groups.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Sarah Patterson
University of Michigan, MI·Social Science·Early-career
Determine under what circumstances complex family and kinship ties, including step, legal, biological and voluntary kin, provide care, and how this differs for older adults living with ADRD.
Katrina Walsemann
University of Maryland, MD·Public Health & Epidemiology
Build the Education Contextual Data Resource (ECDR), a long-term record of state and local school conditions such as per-pupil spending and segregation, describing what Black and White older adults experienced across birth cohorts.
Sidney Hankerson
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Expand health disparities research among Mount Sinai faculty at all levels through methodology workshops, health equity seminars, a determinants-of-health journal club, community engagement opportunities and a shared resource repository.
The school
University of Minnesota: 88 labs on PI Pages, $1.4B a year on research, 722 research doctorates a year.
Reach out
A start for your email. Fill in the brackets.