MPRC Primary Research Area (PRA)
Kenneth Leonard is a development economist specializing in health care delivery and human capital in rural Africa. His work investigates how institutions, NGOs, and social networks affect access to vital services, using fieldwork and original data collection across multiple African countries.
Dr. Kleykamp is a demographer whose research focuses on the role of military service and veteran's status on labor market outcomes. After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 2007, she taught at the University of Kansas and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Kleykamp also worked as a researcher with the RAND Corporation from 2003 to 2004.
Recent Accomplishments
Member, National Initiative Management Team, Financial Security in Later Life, United States Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Research Education and Extension Service.
Leader, Maryland Saves Coalition
Director of Research, National Institute for Personal Finance Employee Education, Virginia Tech.
Co-editior, Personal Finances and Worker Productivity, Virginia Tech.
Conducted and published research in the area of workplace financial education and financial well-being.
Dr. Kim's research focuses on social network analysis, network sampling methods (particularly respondent-driven sampling), and population size estimation.
Dr. Howard received her doctorate in Public Health from the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1994. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Minority Health Research in Baltimore, Maryland. Howard also holds a B.S. in Human Nutrition from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a M.P.H. from the University of Hawaii in Manoa, where her area of concentration was International Health and Cross-Cultural Health.
Sandra Hofferth, Professor Emerita, School of Public Health, and Research Professor, Maryland Population Research Center, is a former Director of the Maryland Population Research Center (2008-2012) and a former co-Director of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1994-2001). In 2010 she served as Vice President of the Population Association of America. Her research interests include American children's use of time and later health outcomes, work and family, fathers and fathering, and family policy.
Dr. He's current research focuses on longitudinal data analysis, time-to-event data analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, as well as applications in clinical trials, epidemiology, and other public health related studies.
As a prevention scientist, Dr. Green’s work has concentrated on improving the health and well-being of disadvantaged populations. Specifically, her research has focused on identifying the causes of negative outcomes over the life course among urban African Americans. Dr. Green’s work is concentrated in two areas: (1) long-term consequences of substance use and (2) the interrelationship of substance use, violence, and mental health over the life course.
Dr. Rebecca Gourevitch is a health services researcher studying policies that impact access to affordable, high quality health care in the United States. Her work focuses on maternal and child health, particularly on access to high-quality prenatal and postpartum care and associated out-of-pocket costs.