Dr. Quashie is a sociologist and population health scholar. Broadly, her research is motivated by understanding how social welfare policies and socioeconomic inequality shape families’ roles in social support, health, and well-being of older adults cross-nationally. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Rhode Island. Her current research investigates dimensions of family availability, structure, support, and relationship quality such as childlessness, sibship size, living arrangements, partnership quality, and family caregiving, as they relate to later life health and well-being. She examines these topics within and across global regions of Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Europe. As a MCUAAAR Research Scientist, Dr. Quashie will expand her research on family-based social support to the Caribbean Blacks within the United States. Dr. Quashie currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and the Regional Liaison for Latin America and the Caribbean within the editorial college of The Journal of Global Ageing.