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Sean Clouston Sean completed a BA in Sociology (Honours), Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria in 2005 and then went on to pursue graduate training in Sociology at McGill University. In 2006, he completed the Master’s degree in Sociology with an emphasis on social statistics; his thesis addressed issues of longitudinal health selection in income as it relates health insurance status. Sean is now a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at McGill University, where he is affiliated with the International Research Infrastructure on Social Inequalities in Health (IRIS), the Léa Roback Foundation, and the Québec Interuniversity Center for Social Statistics (QICSS). He is working under the supervision of Dr. Amélie Quesnel-Vallée. His PhD dissertation research focuses on differences in health due to the transition to marriage in the USA (using the PSID) and Canada (using the SLID). Sean is currently working as a Fulbright pre-doctoral scholar at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health where he is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health. He works with Dr. Bruce Link and Dr. Jo Phelan. Current research projects include: the importance of life course transitions such as marriage, divorce and retirement, on health; the effects of labor markets and education on immigrant health; social inequalities in cancer treatment and prevention as fundamental causes of social inequalities in health; the cyclic relationship between income and health over the life course; and the importance of health insurance and healthcare in determining social inequalities in health.