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CAPS Advisory Committee

Rebeca Wong 

Department of Health, Behavior, and Society
Department of Population Health Sciences
Department of Neurology
Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Diseases
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UTHSA)

Interests: Aging and the Life Course, Comparative international studies of population aging, Determinants of disparities of aging trajectories.

wongr3@uthscsa.edu

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Jennifer Ailshire

Professor of Gerontology and Sociology
Associate Dean of Research 
Associate Dean of Interntional Programs and Global Initiatives 
University of Southern California

Interests: Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, Neighborhoods and Health, Aging and the Life Course, Social Relationships, Social Demography. 

ailshire@usc.edu  

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Pamela Herd

Professor of Social Policy
University of Michigan

Interests: Health Inequity, Aging, Policy, Survey Research, Biodemographic Methods.

pherd@umich.edu 

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Jennifer Karas Montez

Professor, Department of Sociology
Director, Center for Aging and Policy Studies
Co-Director, Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab
Syracuse University

Interests: Demography, Political Economy and Population Health, Life Course and Aging.

jmontez@syr.edu 

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