Janette Dill is an Associate Professor in the Health Policy & Management Division in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She is the Deputy Director of the Consortium for Workforce Research in Public Health and the Associate Director of the Life Course Center at UMN. Her research focuses on job quality and career mobility among the healthcare and public health workforce, with an emphasis on the direct care workforce. Her research has been published in top public health and social science journals, including Health Affairs, Medical Care Research and Review, and Social Science and Medicine, and her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and other state and federal agencies.

Select Publications:

Dill, Janette, and Mignon Duffy. 2022. “Structural Racism And Black Women’s Employment In The US Health Care Sector: Study Examines Structural Racism and Black Women’s Employment in the US Health Care Sector.” Health Affairs 41(2):265–72.

Dill, Janette, and Melissa J. Hodges. 2019. “Is Healthcare the New Manufacturing?: Industry, Gender, and ‘Good Jobs’ for Low- and Middle-Skill Workers.” Social Science Research.

Dill, Janette, and Jill Tanem. 2022. “Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Unionization in Direct Care Occupations.” American Journal of Public Health 112(11):1676–84.