Heide Jackson

I am a demographer with research interests in health over the life course as well as the role of missing data in shaping our understanding of health trajectories. More broadly, I am interested in the use of advanced quantitative methods in social science research with a particular expertise in different methods of addressing missing data and latent variable modeling. My work has been published in several journals including Demography, Journal of Aging and Health, and Social Science Research.

In the fall of 2019, I joined the University of Maryland where I am an associate research professor and statistical coordinator for the Maryland Population Research Center. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, I was a team lead with the Health and Disability Statistics Branch at the U.S. Census Bureau and worked as the imputation specialist with the Current Population Survey, Survey of Income and Program Participation, and National Survey of Children’s Health.

In 2015, I completed my doctorate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a concentration in demography and social stratification.