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Rachel Franklin received a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Arizona in 2004. Before coming to the University of Maryland, she worked as a Statistician Demographer in the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, where she published several Census 2000 Special Reports on domestic migration. Rachel’s current research interests include the spatial analysis of fertility and U.S. internal migration. She is particularly interested in the empirical applications of spatial analysis and GIS tools.
More information is available on the MPRC website.
Rebeca Wong is a Mexican national who received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1987, and is currently Associate Director of the Maryland Population Research Center, and Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. She was formerly in the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, and the Georgetown University Department of Demography. Dr. Wong's research agenda focuses on the economic consequences of population aging, in particular in Mexico and among immigrant Hispanics in the U.S. She has completed recent work on poverty and utilization of health services among the elderly, international migration and later old age wellbeing, and the impact of the social security reform in Mexico. She is currently co-Principal Investigator in the Mexican Health and Aging Study, financed by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. The study seeks to locate research on Mexico's unique health dynamics in a broad socioeconomic context, and it includes a national longitudinal survey of multiple purposes among population of middle and old age.
More information is available at the project website.
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