Coordinating Center Faculty and Staff

SBE CCC relies on ICPSR and ISR's experience and expertise in fostering scholarly collaboration in the social and behavioral sciences.

Margaret Levenstein, Principal Investigator

Margaret Levenstein is the executive director of ICPSR, as well as a research professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center, and an adjunct professor at U-M's Ross School of Business.

An economist, Levenstein first joined ISR's Survey Research Center (SRC) in 2003 as the executive director of the Michigan Census Research Data Center (MCRDC), a joint project with the U.S. Census Bureau. She has taken an active role at ISR, joining the Director's Advisory Committee on Diversity in 2009 and serving as the chair of ISR's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategic planning committee and as the liaison to the larger university program.

Additionally, Levenstein is associate chair of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and past president of the Business History Conference.

Levenstein received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include industrial organization, competition policy, business history, data confidentiality protection, and the improvement of economic statistics.

John Kubale, Principal Investigator

John Kubale is a research assistant professor at ICPSR and a principal investigator of SBE CCC.

John trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist completing his PhD at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. In addition to his work with SBE CCC John works on studies of respiratory viruses like influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and SARS-CoV-2. He is particularly interested in modeling the immune dynamics following infection and/or vaccination and the mechanisms through which the social and built environment influence disease burden. Before coming to UM John worked as a Policy Analyst for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he focused on the public health impacts of federal regulations. 

James McNally, Research Scientist

James McNally is the director of the NACDA Program on Aging, a data archive containing over 1,500 studies related to health and the aging lifecourse.

Originally trained in formal demography at Georgetown University, 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 US Supreme Court. Most recently, he has been studying the impacts of heterogeneity on health outcomes among elderly US Asian/Pacific Islander populations.

Amy Pienta, Research Scientist

Amy Pienta is a research scientist at ICPSR. She is also a research affiliate of the University of Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging and the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. At ICPSR, she oversees collection development and directs several large data archiving projects.

Pienta has studied retirement behavior and the relationship between various social statuses and health. In addition to her role with SBE CCC, she directs the National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and data archiving and dissemination projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Millenium Challenge Corporation, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

Megan Chenoweth, Data Project Manager

Megan Chenoweth manages the day-to-day administration of SBE CCC. She is a librarian with experience in data management, technical writing, training, and technical support. She has worked at the Social Environment and Health (SEH) program within ISR's Survey Research Center, where she managed and curated data for the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) on openICPSR. She also contributed to data collection and data management for two waves of the Americans' Changing Lives longitudinal study.

Chenoweth has a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Hamilton College and a master's degree in library and information science from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Chloe Perry, Data Project Assistant

Chloe Perry oversees social media, conference, and project publicity, restricted data access requests, and user support inquiries for SBE CCC and the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) at ICPSR.

She has a master's degree in American Culture and Digital Studies from the University of Michigan and has worked at ICPSR since 2023.

Co-investigators

  • Robert Taylor, Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan
  • James Wagner, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
  • Brady West, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research