Andrew London

Associate Dean for Maxwell Programs in DC, Professor of Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs Link

Maxwell Dean's Professor of Health and Aging
Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute
Senior Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research
Senior Fellow, Institute for Veterans and Military Families
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Aging and Policy Studies

CAPS Biography:

Over the course of my career, my research has focused on the health, care, and well-being of stigmatized and vulnerable populations, including: persons living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS; informal caregivers to persons with HIV/AIDS; welfare-reliant and working-poor women and their children; the formally incarcerated; veterans; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons; and adolescents and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). I am trained as a medical sociologist and a demographer, and I have developed expertise as a policy researcher and life-course scholar as my career has evolved. As a Research Affiliate of the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS), aspects of my current research align with both of the CAPS signature themes and all three of the cross-cutting themes; however, my primary contributions are in support of the health and well-being signature theme and the policy and specific populations cross-cutting themes.

Much of my research over the past thirteen years and currently focuses on how military service early in adulthood influences aging, health, and well-being in later life. This research has been funded by the National Institute on Aging (#1R01AG028480-01; PI: Janet Wilmoth), the National Poverty Center, and the Social Security Administration (through the Boston College Retirement Research Consortium) and has yielded one edited volume and more than 30 articles and chapters since 2006. With National Institute of Health funding through the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at the University of Rochester, I am working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers on a discrete choice experimental study of barriers to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among young men who have sex with men. Extending a new line of research related to the life-course consequences of ADHD, with funding from the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion at Syracuse University, I am working with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues at Syracuse University to design and implement a pilot random controlled trial that uses “nudges” to increase physical activity among young adolescents with ADHD.

Degree(s):

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993
M.A., Demography, University of Pennsylvania, 1989
B.A., Psychology (with Distinction), McGill University, 1986