Jennifer Ailshire
Professor of Gerontology, Sociology, and Spatial Sciences
Associate Dean of Research
Associate Dean of International Programs and Global Initiatives
Associate Dean of Research
Associate Dean of International Programs and Global Initiatives
Carlos Alberto Cano Gutierrez
Professor of Internal Medicine
Director, Program in Geriatrics Division Chief of Geriatrics
Director, Program in Geriatrics Division Chief of Geriatrics
Scientific Program Committee
Vanessa Di Lego
Department of Demography, Faculty of Economics (UFMG), Minas Gerais - Brazil
Research Areas: Formal demography; Gender differences in health and mortality; Methodological challenges in estimating healthy life expectancy indicators
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences, UCLA
Research Areas: Demography of health and aging, (particular focus on Latin American countries); Biodemographic patterns of health; Development and application of demographic methods to investigate health inequalities using macro and micro data; Demographic and statistical methods with particular emphasis on mortality models
Moises Sandoval
Assistant Professor University of Chile
Research Areas: Social determinants of health and mortality; Ethnic differences in health and longevity; Population ageing; Formal demography
Enrique Acosta
Research Scientist at the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), Barcelona, Spain, Centre D’Estudis Demográfics
Research Areas: Analyzing mortality trends, mortality crises (mortality during epidemics and armed conflicts); Cohort and generational influences on mortality; Drivers of behaviourally-driven causes of death. Methodologically, I have developed new techniques to study Age, Period, and Cohort (APC) effects on mortality; and I am an expert in measuring excess mortality
Mateo Farina
Assistant Professor, Human Development, University of Texas at Austin
Research Areas: Cognitive aging; Biological aging; Life course perspectives; Biosocial mechanisms; Health of minoritized populations; Health inequalities; Education
George Myer Lecturer
Rebeca Wong
Associate Dean Ad Interim, School of Public and Population Health
Professor, Sheridan Lorenz Distinguished Professor in Aging and Health, Department of Population Health & Health Disparities
Director, WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on Aging and Health
Professor, Sheridan Lorenz Distinguished Professor in Aging and Health, Department of Population Health & Health Disparities
Director, WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on Aging and Health
Dr. Wong is a Mexican scholar, with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, who's research focuses on health disparities and aging, and on the economic consequences of population aging, in particular in Mexico and among immigrant Hispanics in the U.S. She has pioneered the use of cross-national approaches to study health outcomes among international migrants. She serves as Principal Investigator of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), financed by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health and the Statistical Bureau of Mexico. Dr. Wong has served as member of the Board of Directors of both the Population Association of America and the Mexican Society of Demography.
