Stephanie A. Robert, M.S.W., Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also on the Population Health faculty and is a Research Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Institute on Aging, and the Center for Demography and Ecology. After receiving a joint Ph.D. in Sociology and in Social Work from the University of Michigan in 1996, Dr. Robert spent two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of California-San Francisco. Dr. Robert has two main lines of research. She is interested in socioeconomic inequalities in health over the life course and her recent work examines how neighborhood socioeconomic context impacts the health and well being of residents. One of her articles in this area won the 1999 Eliot Freidson award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association, for the best article in Medical Sociology. Dr. Robert is also interested in community-based long-term care programs and policies for older adults and is currently examining various aspects of "Family Care", Wisconsin's new long-term care redesign pilot program. Dr. Robert was recently chosen to be one of 10 faculty members across the country to participate in the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program which will support her research on long-term care policy.