Kristin Turney is a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan, where she is also a Postdoctoral Affiliate at the Population Studies Center. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. Broadly, Kristin’s research uses a life course perspective to examine how health inequalities and other sources of social disadvantages are reproduced within families. In her dissertation, Growing Up with Depressed Parents: Social Pathways to Disadvantaged Outcomes in Early Childhood, she used longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing survey to examine the complex link between parental depression and young children's behavioral and cognitive outcomes. Other past and current research projects consider the school readiness of young children with immigrant parents, the correlates and consequences of instrumental support from friends and family members, and the importance of neighborhood context in predicting economic and health outcomes throughout the life course.