Undergraduate Training on Aging at Penn (PARC Aging Chats)

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Undergraduate Training on Aging at Penn (PARC Aging Chats)

Feb 3, 2025 at - | McNeil Room 403 - PSC Commons

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Co-Director, Population Aging Research Center, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, and Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
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Co-Director, Population Aging Research Center, Director, PEDAL Lab, and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania
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Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology & Education
University of Pennsylvania
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Associate Director of Training, Population Studies Center
University of Pennsylvania
Speaker Biographies

Hans-Peter Kohler is a social and economic demographer whose current research focuses on health and health-related behaviors in developing and developed countries. A key characteristic of Hans-Peter's research is the attempt to integrate demographic, economic, sociological and biological approaches in empirical and theoretical models of health and demographic behaviors. In his prior work, he has investigated the role of social and sexual networks for HIV risk perceptions and HIV infection risks, the causal effects of education on health, the consequences of learning one's HIV status on risky behaviors, the interrelations between marriage and sexual relations in developing countries, the role of social interaction processes for fertility and AIDS-related behaviors, and the determinants and consequences of low fertility in developed countries.

Norma B. Coe, PhD, is a Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an economist whose research focuses on identifying causal effects of policies that directly and indirectly impact health, human behavior, health care access, and health care utilization. Norma is the Director of the Policy and Economics of Disability, Aging, and Long Term Care (PEDAL) lab and Co-Director of the Population Aging Research Center (PARC). In her research, Dr. Coe merges the rigor of economic thinking and empirical analysis with the practical health services skills of measurement and knowledge of the health policy context to answer pressing questions for policymakers and other stakeholders on how we can improve aging in America.

Emily Hannum is an Associate Dean for the Social Sciences. Emily oversees the Departments of Anthropology, Criminology, Economics, History and Sociology of Science, Political Science, and Sociology, as well as several research centers.  Hannum is a professor of Sociology, holds a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education, and serves as Associate Director of the Population Studies Center. She directed a 15-year longitudinal study of childhood poverty and upward mobility in China, where she is actively involved in other national and regional studies of children’s education, health, and welfare. She has also been a consultant on educational development issues to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank Institute, and UNESCO.  Hannum served as Graduate Chair in Sociology from 2008 to 2015 and as Associate Chair of Sociology from 2016 to 2017. She is also a member of the Graduate Groups in Demography and International Studies and is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Center for East Asian Studies.

Iliana V. Kohler is a social demographer interested in the demographic, health and social aspects of aging in low- and middle-income contexts. Iliana's approach to study global health, aging and mortality is based on the life-course perspective and in several projects and publications in collaboration with other researchers she has shown the long legacy of early childhood factors on health outcomes in late life in different contexts. Dr. Kohler is leading a portfolio of research projects that critically evaluates social, demographic and epidemiological theories of aging outside the realm of the transitional aging studies that are focused on upper-middle-income and high-income contexts.  Iliana is also the Associate Director of the Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Pennsylvania and a Scholar of the Center for Global Health, UPenn.