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NAME: Eileen Crimmins
TITLE: AARP Chair in Gerontology
RESEARCH TOPICS: Demography of older populations, health and mortality, socioeconomic differences in health, biological risk, global aging
RESEARCH OVERVIEW: Eileen Crimmins is a demographer whose research is focused on health and mortality in older populations. She is particularly interested in how these change over time and what factors cause change. Crimmins is currently working on understanding health change with age in a number of populations including the United States, China, Japan, Mexico, Europe, Indonesia, and Bolivia. Crimmins also works on the quality as well as the length of life in older popualtions through her work on Healthy Life Expectancy.
She is the director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH). The purpose of the Center is to integrate medical, biological, and epidemiological information to model and predict population health trends and explore differentials. The Center provides pilot project money for relevant research and supports a series of seminars and workshops. Crimmins also directs an NIA supported Network for the Measurement of Biological Risk in population studies. She also leads the Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology program which includes predoctoral and postdoctoral students from gerontology, sociology, psychology, medicine and economics.
EDUCATION: Ph.D. Demography, University of Pennsylvania
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