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Date(s) - Sep 27, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Jennifer Beam Dowd
Professor of Demography and Population Health and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
University of Oxford
Title: Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality and Healthy Aging in the US and UK
Bio: Jennifer Beam Dowd is Professor of Demography and Population Health at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. Jenn’s work investigates how the economic and social world “gets under the skin” to impact our biology and health across the life course. This work has included deep dives into the biology of stress, infections and immune function, and the human microbiome. In her current 5-year European Research Council (ERC) project, she is exploring the reasons underlying stalling life expectancy in the US, UK, and Europe. Jenn also worked extensively on the demography and mortality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as science communication through international media and as a founding member and Editor-in-Chief of the social media campaign Dear Pandemic/Those Nerdy Girls. Jenn received her Ph.D. in Demography and Economics from Princeton University and did postdoctoral training in Epidemiology as a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan.