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Ronald J. Angel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1981. His research focuses on comparative welfare systems, retirement, and health care access and use among Hispanics and other minority populations. His work, which has been published in numerous books and journal articles, demonstrates the complex interaction of socioeconomic status, cultural and other social factors in determining individuals’ and communities’ opportunities for social advancement and exposure to health risks. Angel is currently working on a project focused on the role of the non-governmental sector in advocacy for and care delivery to older individuals in Mexico. The work appears in a book entitled When Strangers Become Family: The Role of Civil Society in Addressing the Needs of Aging Populations (Routledge 2020). This is part of a larger project on the role of civil society organizations in rapidly aging nations.

Jacqueline L. Angel is Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology and a Faculty Affiliate at the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines health and retirement issues in the US, with a focus on older minorities, immigration processes, the impact of social policy on the Hispanic population and Mexican-American families. She is involved in several NIH/NIA projects, including a longitudinal study of older Mexican Americans (H-EPESE) since its inception in 1992 and for the past two decades a Conference Series on Aging in the Americas. Angel is author/coauthor/co-editor of numerous publications. This includes books such as The Politics of a Majority-Minority Nation: Aging, Diversity and Immigration (2019) and Latinos in an Aging World (2015). Major papers include “Institutional Context of Family Eldercare in Mexico and the United States” (2016) and “Medicaid Use among Older Low-Income Medicare Enrollees in California and Texas: A Tale of Two States” (2019).

Ellen Annandale is Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK, where she was Head of Department between 2013 and 2017. She was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social Science & Medicine between 2004 and 2012, a past Vice-President of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and is coordinator of ESA’s Research Network 16 (Sociology of Health and Illness). She is Chair of the Trustees of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. Ellen has a long-standing interest in gender and health, particularly as it concerns feminist and gender theory, health inequalities, and the sociology of reproduction and childbirth. She is the author and editor of several books in this field, including Women’s Health and Social Change (Routledge 2009) and, with Ellen Kuhlmann, The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare (Palgrave 2012). She is currently working with colleagues on the research project Interactional Practices of Decision-making During Childbirth in Maternity Units funded by the UK’s National Institute of Health Research.

Elyas Bakhtiari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the College of William & Mary. His research examines how institutionalized social inequalities and boundary formation processes shape patterns of health outcomes and health disparities, particularly for racial and ethnic minorities and international migrants. His work relies on historical and cross-national comparison to understand the formation of health disparities, with current projects focusing on European migration to the US in the early twentieth century and Middle Eastern migrant health after September 11, 2001. His work has been published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, American Behavioral Scientist, Socius, and other outlets.

Ron Barrett is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. His research focuses on the social determinants of infectious diseases and the anthropology of death and dying. His first book, Aghor Medicine (University of California Press), is an ethnography of religious healing and the stigma of leprosy in northern India. It was awarded the Wellcome Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute. He also co-authored An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections (Oxford University Press) with George Armelagos, which explores the human determinants of disease in three transition periods occurring in the Neolithic, the Industrial Revolution, and today. Professor Barrett is also a former registered nurse with clinical experience in neurointensive care, brain injury rehabilitation, and hospice.

Shawn Bauldry is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. His interests in medical sociology include the interrelationship between education and health over the life course and across generations, the evolution of health lifestyles over the life course, and disparities in mental health and mental health care utilization. In addition, he works in the area of applied statistics with a focus on structural equation modeling and models for categorical data. His work has appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, Sociological Methodology, and Sociological Methods & Research among others.

Jaunathan Bilodeau is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His work focuses on the relationship between work-family conflict and mental health, as well as the structural determinants of health inequalities such as gender and social policies. He recently published in Stress & Health, Social Science & Medicine and Annals of Work Exposure and Health.

Carol A. Boyer is former Associate Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and graduate faculty in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. She has devoted her career to health services research and policy and interdisciplinary studies informed by clinical experience in acute-care and emergency settings. With over 30 years’ experience in mental health services research focusing on populations with severe mental illnesses and their medical co-morbidities, her studies addressed access, utilization, stigma, quality of life and the content and outcomes of treatment and services provided to individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, psychosocial interventions and strategies to enhance adherence with antipsychotic medications and linking individuals successfully to home and community services. Her research informed developing and implementing training programs including both didactic and experiential learning components.

Hannah Bradby is Professor at the Sociology Department, Uppsala University, Sweden since 2013, having previously held a senior lectureship at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interrogates the links between identity, structure and health with particular reference to racism, ethnicity and religion. She is Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Sociology and blogs regularly at Cost of Living.

Cindy L. Cain is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her interests in medical sociology include changes within the healthcare system, the experiences of healthcare workers, and care for vulnerable older adults. In addition, she specializes in qualitative and mixed methods approaches and is especially interested in how we can better integrate different methods. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Sociology of Health & Illness, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, The Gerontologist, and other journals.

Yvonne Chen is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her major research interests center on race and ethnicity, mental health, social stratification, and social networks. Her work has appeared in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Kirsten Ostergren Clark is a PhD candidate in medical sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests are developmental disabilities, masculinity and fatherhood, and religion and health. She earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of South Carolina and spent several years supervising group homes for individuals with developmental disabilities and working as a renal social worker in dialysis clinics. Her dissertation is a qualitative project involving fatherhood and developmental disabilities.

Adele E. Clarke is Professor Emerita of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. Her books include Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and “Problems of Sex” (1998, Fleck Award, Society for Social Studies of Science; and Basker Award, Society for Medical Anthropology), Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern Turn (2005, Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction), co-edited The Right Tools for the Job in Twentieth Century Life Sciences (1992), Women’s Health: Differences and Complexities (1997), Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing (1999), Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the US (2010), Situational Analysis in Practice (2015), and co-authored Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn (2018). She received the Bernal Prize (Society for Social Studies of Science, 2012), the Reeder Award (Medical Sociology Section, ASA, 2015), and sessions in her honor at American Anthropological Association (2012) and Pacific Sociological Association (2019) meetings.

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William & Mary. He is past president of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association and author or editor of several books and articles on medical sociology. Additionally, he is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and previously served on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, Society and Mental Health, and other journals. He also has held editorial positions for several encyclopedias, including Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society (Wiley Blackwell 2014) and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2^nd ed. (Academic Press 2017). His most recent books include Social Causes of Health and Disease, 3rd ed. (Polity 2021), Sociological Theories of Health and Illness (Routledge 2021), Sociology of Mental Disorder, 11th ed. (Routledge 2021), and Medical Sociology, 15th ed. (Routledge 2021).

Kaitlin Conway is a PhD student in Sociology at McGill University, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Amélie Quesnel Vallée. Her research focuses on the life course health inequalities of marginalized populations in Canada and the US. Prior to beginning her PhD, Kaitlin worked in the non-profit sector in both research and program monitoring capacities, both with a focus on global health. She holds a Master of Science in Global Health from King’s College London and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in International Development from McGill University.

Raymond De Vries is Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, visiting professor at the School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht (Netherlands), and a fellow at the Hastings Center. He is a medical sociologist with broad experience in the study of the practice and profession of bioethics and the social and cultural influences on the organization of maternity care systems. He is the author of A Pleasing Birth: Midwifery and Maternity Care in the Netherlands (Temple University Press 2005), and co-editor of Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe (Routledge 2001), The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (Blackwell 2007), Qualitative Methods in Health Research (Sage 2010), and co-edited special issues of Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy (2008), Social Science and Medicine (2013), Journal of Clinical Ethics (2013), and the AMA Journal of Ethics (2019).

Christy L. Erving is Assistant Professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. Using theories, concepts, and perspectives from several research areas, her program of research employs quantitative methods to clarify and explain social status distinctions in health. Her primary research areas explore: (1) how race, ethnicity, gender, and immigrant status intersect to produce health differentials, (2) the relationship between physical and mental health, (3) psychosocial determinants of Black women’s health, and (4) the Black–White mental health paradox. In 2014–16, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program at University of Wisconsin, Madison. She completed a PhD and MA in Sociology at Indiana University-Bloomington, and received a BA in Sociology and Hispanic Studies from Rice University. Her research has been funded by the American Sociological Association, Ford Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Jonathan Gabe is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research interests include pharmaceuticals, chronic illness, health professions, and health policy. He has edited or written 14 books (and 2 second editions) and published his research in journals such as Health, Health, Risk & Society, Health Sociology Review, Social Science &Medicine, Sociological Review, Sociology, Sociology Compass, and Sociology of Health & Illness. He is a past editor of the international journal Sociology of Health & Illness and a past chair of the European Sociological Association RN16, Sociology of Health and Illness. He is also a past President of the International Sociological Association RC15 Sociology of Health and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

Frederic W. Hafferty is Professor of Medical Education, Associate Director of the Program for Professionalism & Values, and Associate Dean for Professionalism, College of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He received his undergraduate degree in Social Relations from Harvard in 1969 and his PhD in Medical Sociology from Yale in 1976. He is past chair of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and currently sits on the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) standing committee on Ethics and Professionalism, ABMS Professionalism Task Force, ABMS Stakeholder Council, and on the editorial board of Academic Medicine. He is the author of several books and a variety of academic papers that apply sociological frameworks to disability studies and issues of medical education, culture, and professionalism.

Terrence D. Hill is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research examines social inequalities in health and human suffering. He is especially interested in the effects of religious involvement, neighborhood context, social relationships, and socioeconomic status. To date, he has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His work appears in a range of journals, including the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, The Journals of Gerontology, The Gerontologist, American Journal of Public Health, Labour Economics, and Social Work. He has also published chapters in the Handbook of Sociology of Aging, Annual Review of Gerontologyand Geriatrics, the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health, and the Handbook on Religion and Society. According to Google Scholar, his published work has been cited across a range of disciplines over 5,000 times.

Brian P. Hinote is Professor, Associate Vice Provost for Data Analytics & Student Success, and Chief Online Learning Officer at Middle Tennessee State University. In addition to clinical and research experience in areas as diverse as pediatrics, neurology, and cell biology, his interdisciplinary work appears in multiple books and peer-reviewed journals in social science, nursing, and medicine. His most recent work focuses on the various ways that social and behavioral science perspectives intersect and inform health care delivery and policy, clinical practice, and the work of various health professions. This line of inquiry culminates in his latest book project, Social & Behavioral Science for Health Professionals (Rowman & Littlefield 2020).

Ellen Idler is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology, and Director of Emory’s Religion and Public Health Collaborative, with additional Emory appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health, the Center for Ethics, the Graduate Division of Religion, and the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the School of Medicine. Dr. Idler is a Fellow and past Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America, and she served as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging and the Life Course. She studies the influence of attitudes, beliefs, and social connections on health, including the effect of self-ratings of health on mortality and disability, and the impact of religious participation on health and the timing of death among the elderly. Her research papers have been cited over 20,000 times. She is an Academic Editor for PLoS One and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences; Innovation in Aging; and Palliative and Social Care.

Melanie Jeske is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California at San Francisco. Situated at the intersection of medical sociology and science and technology studies, her research explores the social, political and ethical dimensions of knowledge systems, emergent biotechnologies, and biomedical expertise. Her dissertation research explores the politics and values of translational medicine, and goals of commercialization in biomedical research. Melanie’s research has been published in journals including BioSocieties, Social Science & Medicine, and Engaging Science, Technology, and Society.

Lei Jin is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD at the University of Chicago and was a Robert Wood Johnson postdoctoral fellow in the Health Policy Program at Harvard University. Her research interests include social disparities in health and well-being, health lifestyle, healthcare policy and healthcare professions. Her work has appeared in prestigious international journals such as Demography, Social Science Research, Social Science & Medicine, and the American Behavioral Scientist. Professor Jin’s current projects examine the following topics: (1) social disparities in health lifestyle in transitional China; (2) psychological well-being and power perception in different social and political contexts across the world; and (3) professionalization and professionalism among physicians in China’s public hospitals.

Patrick M. Krueger is Associate Professor in Health & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, and research faculty at the Population Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on race/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health, health behaviors, and mortality. His current hobby is reciting pi backward.

Laura Mamo (PhD Sociology) is Professor of Public Health at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on the technoscientific, biomedical, and social and cultural dimensions of health inequalities largely in the US. She is the author of Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience (Duke University Press 2007); co-editor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the US (Duke University Press 2010); and co-author of Living Green: Communities That Sustain (New Society Press 2009). She is also a founding member of the Beyond Bullying Project, a multi-media and ethnographic project studying the circulation of sexuality at school. Her research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the US National Institutes of Health.

Jane D. McLeod is Provost Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Indiana University. Her research traverses social psychology, medical sociology, sociology of mental health, stratification, and the life course. She is currently working on projects concerned with the social psychology of inequality, the college experiences of youth on the autism spectrum, and mental health inequalities.

James Nazroo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, where he is Deputy Director (formerly founding Director) of the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity. His research focuses on inequality, social justice and stratification in relation to ethnicity and aging. His research on ethnic inequalities has spanned more than twenty-five years and demonstrates how health and underlying socioeconomic inequalities are shaped by racism.

Hyeyoung Oh Nelson is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado-Denver. She is a medical sociologist and qualitative researcher. Her research interests include the medical profession, health care organizations, the doctor-patient relationship, racial health disparities, and maternal health. Her work has been published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Qualitative Health Research.

Sarah Nettleton is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, University of York, UK. Over three decades her research has focused on embodiment, experiences of illness, health promotion, recovery, sleep and more lately architecture in the context of health and social care. She is author of the textbook Sociology of Health and Illness, 4th edition (Polity 2020).

Alexandra “Xan” Nowakowski is Assistant Professor at Florida State University College of Medicine. They are a medical sociologist and program evaluator focused on health equity in aging with chronic disease. Currently they evaluate the Florida Asthma and REACH Geriatrics programs. They have published in numerous journals, including the Sociology of Health & Illness, Symbolic Interaction, and Teaching Sociology plus interdisciplinary sociomedical journals. They have served on editorial boards for Inquiry, The Qualitative Report, and Sociological Spectrum. Their books include the edited volume Negotiating the Emotional Challenges of Deeply Personal Research in Health (Routledge 2017) and the social fiction novel Other People’s Oysters (Brill 2018). They also edit the Health and Aging in the Margins series (Rowman & Littlefield) and the Write Where It Hurts trauma informed scholarship project. Dr. Nowakowski is agender, which informs their intersectional scholarship on chronic illness, and uses they/them pronouns.

Kristina Orfali is Professor of Bioethics and a Fellow of the Institute for Social and Economic Research & Policy at Columbia University. She is a sociologist with broad cross-cultural experience in the study of the practice of bioethics and clinical ethics. She has published work on clinician and family decision making and on neonatal ethics; she is the co-editor of special issues of Sociology of Health & Illness (2007), Social Science & Medicine (2013) and of several books: Who is my Genetic Parent? Assisted Reproduction and Donor Anonymity: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (2012), Families and End of Life Treatment. An International Perspective (2013), The Female Body: A Journey through Law, Culture and Medicine (2014), Reproductive Technology and Changing Perceptions of Parenthood around the World (2014), Protecting the Human Body: Legal and Bioethical Perspectives around the World (2016), and The Reality of Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law: Comparative Perspectives (2018).

Bernice Pescosolido is Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Founding Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research (ICMHSR) and was Founding Co-Director of the Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI). Her research focuses on four areas – stigma, health care use, suicide, and social networks – primarily looking at mental illness and substance abuse and the role that social and organizational networks play in people’s responses to problems. Trained as a medical sociologist at Yale University, her research has been published in sociology, anthropology, public health, and psychiatric journals and has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fogarty International Center, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the MacArthur Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, among others. She has served as the Vice President of the American Sociological Association, and has received several career, teaching, and mentoring awards in sociology and public health, including the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award and the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale. In 2016, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Stella R. Quah is Adjunct Professor, Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore. Prior to joining Duke-NUS in July 2009, she was Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where she was a faculty member from 1977 to 2009; and Research Sociologist at the Department of Social Medicine and Public Health from 1973 to 1975. In addition to her consultancy work, Stella Quah is also member of several Institutional Review Boards. Among her most recent publications on sociology of health and social epidemiology are the International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2nd Ed., Editor-in-Chief (Elsevier 2017); and Section Editor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Elsevier Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences (since 2014). Her published research on family sociology includes the Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia (Routledge 2015); and Families in Asia – Home and Kin (Routledge 2009) among others. Her full list of publications by theme is available at https://www.stellarquah.website.

Amélie Quesnel-Vallée is the 2019–20 recipient of the Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Quebec Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh. She is Professor at McGill University in Montreal where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities and is jointly appointed across the faculties of Arts (Sociology) and Medicine (Epidemiology). She is the founding Director of the McGill Observatory on Health and Social Services Reforms. Her research examines the contribution of policies to social inequalities in health over the life course. It has appeared in journals such as The Lancet, the International Journal of Epidemiology, and Social Science & Medicine and was recognized through several international professional associations’ awards, including from the American Sociological Association, the Population Association of America, and the American Public Health Association. Committed to furthering public understanding of science, she is frequently sought by the media such as National Public Radio, the New York Times, and Business Week.

Jarron M. Saint Onge is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Kansas and associate professor of Population Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center. His research focuses on social determinants of health disparities, with specific interests in health lifestyles and neighborhood contexts.

Lacee A. Satcher is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. She received her BA in Psychology from Tougaloo College in 2013, MA in Sociology from Jackson State University in 2015, and MA in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 2017. Her research interests include race, health, place and inequality, social psychology of health and inequality, health policy, environmental justice, and urban sociology. Her recent research focuses on the race-environment-health connection in the urban American South, specifically how various individual social identities/social locations structure our relations with and within space and place to shape health outcomes and health experiences.

Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College London and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Surrey University, UK. He has published extensively in social theory and the sociology of health. Specific foci of his work have been the sociologies of stigma and health inequalities. Recent books include: Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A Critical Realist Account (Routledge 2018), which was awarded the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize; A Sociology of Shame and Blame: Insiders Versus Outsiders (Palgrave 2020); and Communal Forms: A Sociological Exploration of the Concept of Community (with Aksel Tjora) (Routledge 2020). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.

Teresa L. Scheid is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with joint appointments in Public Policy and Health Services Research. She is senior editor (with Eric Wright) of the Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems, 3^rd Ed. (Cambridge University Press 2017). She has published widely on the organization and delivery of mental health services and the work of mental health workers that resulted in her 2004 book Tie a Knot and Hang On: Delivering Mental Health Care in a Turbulent Environment. Her most recent books are Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS: Community-Based Strategies (Routledge 2015), Reducing Race Differences in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising: The Case for Regulation with Stephany De Scisciolo (Lexington 2018), and a forthcoming book with Megan S. Smith titled Ties That Enable: Community Solidarity for Adults Living with Serious Mental Illness to be published by Rutgers University Press.

Janet K. Shim is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. Her current program of research focuses on two areas: the sociological analysis of health sciences, particularly how they understand social difference and health inequality, and the study of healthcare interactions and how they produce unequal outcomes. Her work has been funded by the US National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She is a co-editor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the US (Duke University Press 2010) and the author of Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease (New York University Press 2014). Her articles have appeared in journals such as American Sociological Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Science, Technology & Human Values, Social Science & Medicine, Social Studies of Science, and Sociology of Health & Illness.

Kim Shuey is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Her research interests focus on life course sociology, and work and health. She has published in Work and Occupations, Advances in Life Course Research, and the American Journal of Sociology, among other venues.

Eeva Sointu is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at York St. John University, UK. She is the author of Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Wellbeing, Self, Class, Gender (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). She studies configurations of power, legitimacy and meaning in the domains of health, well-being and medicine, and conceptualizes social identities and values as central to understanding medical work, health seeking, and the ways in which health practices are represented.

Lijun Song is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University. Her major research interests include social networks and social capital, medical sociology and mental health, social psychology, social stratification, marriage and family, and comparative historical sociology. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Society and Mental Health, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, Social Networks, Sociological Perspectives, American Behavioral Scientist, Chinese Sociological Review, and Research in the Sociology of Work.

Mieke Beth Thomeer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests include aging, family, health, gender, and sexuality. In her research, she addresses questions about how family relationships influence and are influenced by physical and mental health, with particular attention to gender. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, with special emphasis on dyadic methods. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Gerontology, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and other journals. She currently serves as Deputy Editor for the Journal of Marriage and Family, on the editorial boards of several journals, and is Teaching Committee Chair for the American Sociological Association’s Medical Sociology Section.

Jason Adam Wasserman is Associate Professor of Foundational Medical Studies at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, where he also holds an appointment in Pediatrics, is the course director for the Medical Humanities and Clinical Bioethics curriculum, serves as Faculty Advisor on Professionalism, and conduct ethics consultations for area hospitals. His first book, At Home on the Street (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2010) addressed the issue of homelessness, while his current scholarly work focuses on clinical bioethics as well as integrating social science into clinical medicine. The second edition of his book Social and Behavioral Science for Health Professionals (with Brian Hinote) was published in 2020 by Rowman and Littlefield. He has authored numerous articles in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, JAMA-Pediatrics, Journal of Clinical Ethics, Journal of Preventive Medicine, and The New England Journal of Medicine.

Andrea Willson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Her research focuses the investigation of health inequality over the life course and its transmission across generations. She is Principal Investigator (K. Shuey, co-investigator) of a grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to investigate family context and the intergenerational persistence of health inequality. Her work has appeared in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, International Sociology, and the American Journal of Sociology.

Joseph D. Wolfe is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. His interests include studying health disparities across periods of social change, multigenerational socioeconomic resources and longevity, and measurement of social hierarchies related to US health inequalities. His most recent research decomposes wealth into its multiple sources, such as housing and financial wealth, and then examines their relationships to mental and physical health among adults entering later midlife. His work has appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Forces, Research on Aging, Obesity, and several other social science journals.

Chenyu Ye is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She completed her undergraduate studies at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Her main research interests lie in the areas of medical sociology, sociology of professions, health policy, and family and marriage.