Heather Gatny is a Research Associate at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She received her master of science from the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology in 2005. She specializes in both survey methodology and family demography, and currently serves as the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life Study project director. In addition to survey data collection methods, Gatny’s research interests include teen pregnancy, health behaviors during pregnancy, and adding the collection of biospecimans to social surveys.