Noura Insolera is the Assistant Director of Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Insolera is a quantitative sociologist whose research focuses on health, educational, and socioeconomic outcomes of income inequality and the social and economic factors that can ameliorate its effects. Her interdisciplinary approach to this subject connects sociology and economics with public health and survey research in order to obtain a comprehensive life course perspective.