1. Paula M. Lantz is associate professor and chair of health management and policy in the School of Public Health and research associate professor in the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are in socioeconomic and gender disparities in mortality and health status across the life course and in public health policy analyses.
2. James S. House is research professor and former director of the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research and professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on the role of psychosocial factors in understanding and explaining social inequalities in health and the way health changes with age.
3. Richard P. Mero is a research associate in the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, where he provides data management and analytic support to the Americans' Changing Lives study and the Chicago Mind-Body study.
4. David R. Williams is Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology and research professor in the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is centrally interested in the determinants of socioeconomic and racial differences in physical and mental health. He is currently involved in projects examining discrimination and health, religious involvement and health, and the social distribution of psychiatric disorders in the United States and South Africa.