[5] As a result of her research, she was elected to National Academy of Social Insurance[6] and announced as the inaugural James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy.
[10] In early October, Lantz and a coalition of 15 health experts wrote an op-ed calling on the Michigan legislature and county/city governments to take a science-based approach to control the pandemic.
[11] Later that month, she was appointed to the Milbank Quarterly editorial advisory board[12] and named to the National Academy of Social Insurance COVID-19 Task Force.
[13] The following year, Lantz co-authored an article published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law suggesting that federal, regional, state and local levels should "appreciate that more proximate causes [of health inequities] — higher rates of serious medical conditions, living in crowded housing, inability to work from home, and so on— are themselves a result of social inequalities produced by social systems reinforced through public policy.
"[14] She was also a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance report that looked at the direct effects and outcomes of COVID-19 including hospitalizations, deaths, disability, unemployment, and racial and ethnic disparities.