Neal Marquez is a PhD student in the sociology department at the University of Washington as well as a trainee with the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and international affiliated student of the Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science. His research interests focus on geographic inequalities of health outcomes as well as how demographic processes are influenced by geographically varying contextual factors among Hispanic populations in the United States. In addition to his graduate training in sociology, Neal also has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington with a focus on statistical methods and data evaluation and has worked as a statistical researcher for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.