Eileen Crimmins

Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study

Contact Information

Andrus Gerontology Center GER 218D
3715 McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191

Phone: 213.740.1707
Email: crimmin@usc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1974
M.A., Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1969
B.A., Mathematics, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, 1968

Research and Projects

Eileen Crimmins is the co-director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH). This Center fosters the integration of medical, biological, and epidemiological information in large scale population studies to model and predict population health trends and differentials. Crimmins also co-directs the NIA-supported Network for the Measurement of Biological Risk and leads the USC Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology program. Crimmins is currently working on understanding health change with age in a number of populations including the United States, China, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, and Bolivia.

Selected Recent Publications