Janette Dill is an Associate Professor in the Health Policy & Management Division in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She has a Master of Public Health degree (MPH) and PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her research focuses on the health care workforce. Her research emphasizes the devaluation of direct care work, which is performed largely by women and disproportionately by women of color and immigrant women. Her current projects include measuring regional variation in the supply of the direct care workforce, racial and gender disparities in the rewards for professional certification and unionization among direct care workers, and measuring the employment behavior and intentions of direct care workers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. 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