Eileen Crimmins

Eileen Crimmins is the AARP Chair in Gerontology, and University Professor at the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California in Los Angles. She co-directs the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, the NIA sponsored Biomarker Network, and a Multidisciplinary Training in Gerontology program. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her PhD in Demography from The University of Pennsylvania. Crimmins is a Past President of the Population Association of America, a Past Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America, and a past chair of the Aging and the Life Course Section of the American Sociological Association. Crimmins’ research is in the area of factors promoting healthy aging and healthy life expectancy. She has received the Kleemeier award for research from the Gerontological Society of America and the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award from the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Society; and the Taeuber Award for research from the Population Association of America. Crimmins has been instrumental in introducing and promoting the collection of biological data in large national surveys of aging. She has worked on development of data in the U.S. HRS, SHARE in Europe, CHARLS, Indonesia, India and other countries.