Appendix G
Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Alan M. Zaslavsky (Chair) is a professor of statistics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His statistical research interests include surveys, census methodology, small area estimation, official statistics, missing data, hierarchical modeling, and Bayesian methodology. His research topics in health care policy focus on measurement of the quality of care provided by health plans through consumer assessments and clinical and administrative data. His current major projects include survey implementation for the Medicare system, methodology for studies in psychiatric epidemiology, studies on determinants of quality of care in Medicare, and measurement of disparities in health care. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Michael Davern is senior vice president and director of the Public Health Research Department at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on survey research, public health data, linking surveys with administrative data, and Census Bureau data, as well as the use of these data for policy research simulation and evaluation. Previously, at the University of Minnesota, he was an assistant professor of health policy and management and research director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center and codirector of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Research Data Center. He also previously served as a statistician for the Labor Force and Transfer Programs Statistics Branch of the U.S. Census Bureau. A major focus of his work has involved applying state-level data to health policy issues and helping states monitor trends
in health insurance coverage rates. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Notre Dame.
Jeff Hardcastle serves as the demographer for the state of Nevada in the Nevada Small Business Development Center at the University of Nevada at Reno. He is responsible for producing annual state, county, city, and unincorporated town estimates; population projections; age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin estimates and projections; disseminating data to interested parties and the general public; networking with other state agencies; representing the state of Nevada to the Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates (FSCPE) and the Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Projections (FSCPP). He served four terms as chair of FSCPE Steering Committee and as chair of FSCPP. He served as the Nevada’s governor’s liaison for the 2010 census and participated in the Census Bureau’s Local Update of Census Address Program and count review. He was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census, Second Edition. He has an M.A. in urban and regional planning from the University of Colorado at Denver.
Scott H. Holan is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Missouri. His research interests include time-series analysis, spatial-temporal models, econometrics, Bayesian methodology, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, functional data analysis, and data confidentiality. He is a principal investigator for a joint U.S. National Science Foundation/U.S. Census Bureau research node to develop new data analysis and modeling methodologies for the American Community Survey. He has been the recipient of several research fellowships to work on problems involving seasonality and data confidentiality. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistics Institute. He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Texas A&M University.
James S. House is the Angus Campbell distinguished university professor of survey research, public policy, and sociology; research professor in the Department of Epidemiology; and research professor affiliate at the Population Studies Center of the Institute for Social Research, all at the University of Michigan. He previously served as director of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and held positions at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include social psychology, political sociology, social structure and personality, psychosocial and socioeconomic factors in health, survey research methods, and American society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
the American Sociological Association. He has served as editor or associate editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Work & Stress, and Journal of Occupational Behavior; and has served on the editorial board of Sociometry, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, and Annual Review of Sociology. He has a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan.
David Hubble is a senior statistician at Westat, where his work has involved the National Assessment of Education Progress, the Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey, and other survey design and technical assistance projects. Previously, his work at the U.S. Census Bureau covered many aspects of designing, planning, and conducting demographic surveys and census evaluations. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including survey design, sampling frame creation, sample selection, data collection methods, missing data mitigation, weighting procedures, estimation techniques, variance estimation, methodological investigations, and experimental designs. He has an M.A. in statistics from Boston University.
Linda A. Jacobsen is vice president of U.S. programs at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C. Previously, she was a senior executive and chief demographer for two leading marketing information companies, the research director at American Demographics, and a faculty member at Cornell University and the University of Iowa, conducting research and teaching graduate courses in sociology and demography. Her research has focused on family and household demography, population estimates and projections, and poverty and inequality. She has been a featured speaker on U.S. demographic trends at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and at Harvard University’s Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress. Her extensive research experience with the American Community Survey (ACS) includes coauthoring two of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Compass handbooks for understanding and using ACS data. She is chair of the Government and Public Affairs Committee of the Population Association of America and a member of the board of directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Michael W. Link is chief methodologist for research methods at the Nielsen Company. Previously, he worked in survey research at the University of South Carolina, RTI International, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His work has centered on developing techniques for improving survey participation and data quality (use of address-based sampling, impact of call screening technologies), methodological issues involving use of multiple modes in data collection (web, mail, computer-assisted telephone interview, field, mobile, meters), and obtaining participation
from hard-to-survey populations (linguistically isolated, racial and ethnic groups). His current research focuses on emerging technologies, such as mobile and social platforms, as vehicles for measuring and understanding public attitudes and behaviors. He is a co-recipient of the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association of Public Opinion Research. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of South Carolina.
Jennifer H. Madans is co-deputy director and associate director for science at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Previously, she was in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the School of Medicine and in the Department of Demography, both at Georgetown University. She is a recipient of the Public Health Service Superior Service Award, the NCHS Director’s Award in Methodological Statistics, and the NCHS Elijah White Memorial Award. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a member of the American Sociological Association, the Population Association of America, the American Public Health Association, the Society for Epidemiological Research, and the Gerontological Society of America. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan.
Krisztina Marton (Study Director) is a senior program officer with the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT). She is currently serving as study director for the Standing Committee on Integrating New Behavioral Health Measures Into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Data Collection Programs. She served as study director for several CNSTAT consensus panels, workshops, and expert meetings, including the Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey. Prior to joining CNSTAT, she was a survey researcher at Mathematica Policy Research and a survey director in the Ohio State University Center for Survey Research. She has a Ph.D. in communication with an interdisciplinary specialization in survey research from Ohio State University.
David A. Plane is a professor in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the dynamics of migration systems and methods for analyzing human population distribution and redistribution. His current work is focused on migration across the life-cycle and the linkages between urban hierarchies and migration patterns. His other major interests are in transportation, regional science, regional development, and quantitative modeling. He has a Ph.D. in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jerome P. Reiter is the Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer professor of statistical science in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. His methodological research focuses mainly on statistical methods for protecting data confidentiality, handling missing data, and analysis of complex data. His primary application areas are in official statistics and public policy. He is also the principal investigator for a joint U.S. National Science Foundation/U.S. Census Bureau research node of the Triangle Census Research Network, which is dedicated to improving the practice of data dissemination among federal statistical agencies. He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University.
Joseph J. Salvo is director of the Population Division at the New York City Department of City Planning. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning Department at Hunter College of the City University of New York. His previous positions include a year at the U.S. Census Bureau. His work has broadly focused on immigration, the application of small area data for policies and programs, the use of census data and data from the American Community Survey. He is a past president of the Association of Public Data Users and a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He is a recipient of the Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Fordham University.
Robert L. Santos is a senior institute methodologist at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Previously, he worked at NuStats, NORC at the University of Chicago, and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. He has served as a member of the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations and on the editorial board of the Public Opinion Quarterly, and he has held numerous elected and appointed leadership positions in both the American Statistical Association and the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a recipient of its Founder’s Award for excellence in survey statistics and contributions to the statistical community. He received an M.A. in statistics from the University of Michigan.
