Contact Us
If you wish to submit a question/request to NACDA electronically, please contact ICPSR-help@umich.edu. Or you may contact one of the individuals below:
Director
James McNally is the Director of the NACDA Program on Aging (NACDA), a data archive containing over 1,500 studies related to health and the aging lifecourse. Originally trained in formal demography at Georgetown University, Dr. McNally developed an interest in gerontology while at Brown University and in policy research while at Syracuse University's Center for Policy Research. He works primarily on issues of family support and health among the aged, both in the United States and internationally. He does methodological research on the repair of deficient data and has been cited as an expert authority on imputation in deliberations before the U.S. Supreme Court. Most recently, he has been studying the impacts of heterogeneity on health outcomes among elderly U.S. Asian/Pacific Islander populations.
E-mail: jmcnally@umich.edu
Office phone: 734-615-9520
Fax: 734-647-8700
Archival and Research Support
Kathryn Lavender
Project Manager
Kathryn joined the NACDA team in November 2017 as project manager. She is involved with day to day operations including data deposits, restricted-use data agreements, data user requests, as well as long term planning of NACDA activities in the research community. Before transitioning to NACDA, Kathryn came to ICPSR from UofM Dearborn as a co-op student, and accepted a full time position after graduating with her degree in economics. She has been involved in many areas of ICPSR, from curating data across different projects and supervising curation staff to event planning with the summer internship program. Kathryn has been an ICPSR staff member for over 10 years.
E-mail: kfrania@umich.edu
Office phone: 734-615-9516