ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the sponsors of SEAN—the National Science Foundation—and of the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats—the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Special thanks go to members of the SEAN executive committee, who dedicated time and thought to this project: Mary T. Bassett (co-chair), Harvard University; Robert M. Groves (co-chair), Georgetown University; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Brandeis University; Mahzarin R. Banaji, Harvard University; Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Janet Currie, Princeton University; Michael Hout, New York University; Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan; Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington; and Wendy Wood, University of Southern California. We thank the National Academies’ Committee on Population as well.
We extend gratitude to the staff of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in particular Emily P. Backes, Malvern T. Chiweshe, and Chelsea Fowler, who contributed research, editing, and writing assistance. We thank Ron Warnick and Mary Ghitelman, who led the communication and dissemination of the project. Thanks are also due to Elizabeth Tilton, who managed the administrative aspects of the project and assisted with report production. From the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, we thank Kirsten Sampson Snyder, who shepherded the report through the review process. We thank Rona Briere, Allison Boman, and John C. Hawkins as well for their skillful editing.
This rapid expert consultation benefited from perspectives and analysis presented at a December 2022 webinar. To inform the webinar, two white papers were commissioned by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) with the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. We thank Robert Fairlie for his paper titled, COVID-19, Small Business Owners, and Racial Inequality and Jevay Grooms for her paper titled, Dimensions of Marginality During COVID-19: Precarious Workers, Mental Health, and Race and Ethnicity. Thanks are also due to Kosali Simon and James Poterba for facilitating the collaboration with NBER.
To supplement their own expertise, the authors received input from several external sources, whose willingness to share their perspectives and expertise was essential to this work. We thank David Blustein, Boston College; Tessa Bonney, University of Illinois Chicago; Anne Marie Brady, Cornell University; Elizabeth Fisher, University of Illinois Chicago; WenJui Han, New York University; Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Susan J. Lambert, University of Chicago; Vanessa Oddo, University of Illinois Chicago.
We also thank the following individuals for their review of this rapid expert consultation: Katharine G. Abraham, Department of Economics and Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland; Candace Chewning, Office of Worker Protections, Philadelphia Department of Labor; Courtney C. Coile, Department of Economics, Wellesley College; Sean X. Jin, Office of Worker Protections, Philadelphia Department of Labor; Preethi Lakshmi Rao Pratap, Center for Healthy Work, University of Illinois Chicago; Sigrid W. Luhr, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago; Amanda Mehl, Public Health Administrator, Boone County Health Department, Belvidere, IL.
Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions of this document, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this document was overseen by Alicia L. Carriquiry, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, and Robert A. Moffitt, Department of Economics, The Johns Hopkins University. They were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this rapid expert consultation was carried out in accordance with the standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the authors, and this document has been reviewed and approved for release by the National Academies.
