Dr. Shannon Monnat is the Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, Associate Professor of Sociology, and the Co-Director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is also a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research at SU and a Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Monnat received her PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Albany.