The Survey Methodology Program (SMP) was established within SRC in 1992 with the explicit aim of creating a multidisciplinary team to focus on research methodology.  Thus, the SMP draws upon a range of disciplines including social psychology, cognitive psychology, sociology, statistics, and computer science.

House’s research career has focused on the role of social and psychological factors in health and illness, initially on occupational stress and health. He has been founding principal investigator or co-principal Investigator of the Americans’ Changing Lives, the Changing Lives of Older Couples, and the Chicago Community Adult Health studies.  His most recent book — Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death and Social Policy — was published by the Russell Sage Foundation in June, 2015.

House was one of the first scholars to look beyond the biological determinants of health, starting with his research on work stresses and coronary heart disease in the 1970s. He is a member of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Science.