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Dr. Weinick joined the Agency for healthcare Policy and Research in 1994, after receiving her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation, entitled "Coresidence and Intergenerational Assistance in the United States," was selected for the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Aging Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1996. Since joining the Agency, Dr. Weinick has become actively involved with the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey project through the various phases of the survey process, including questionnaire design, pre-testing, interviewer training, data editing, and data release activities. She has served as chairperson of several analytic groups contributing to different areas of survey content and data preparation, particularly access to care, health status/conditions, and demographics. Dr. Weinick also maintains an active research agenda, contributing to both the Agency publication plan as well as peer-reviewed journals. Her research agenda focuses on the relationship between families and health, as well as access to care and populations at risk of not having adequate access to the resources they need to take care of themselves: children, the elderly, minorities, and women. Dr. Weinick has also been involved in providing technical assistance both within and outside of the Agency, including representing the Agency to the Interagency Committee evaluating the Federal Racial Ethnic Standards.