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

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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

Crimmins EM, Thyagarajan B, Levine ME, Weir DR, Faul J. Associations of Age, Sex, Race/Ethnicity and Education with 13 Epigenetic Clocks in a Nationally Representative US Sample: The Health and Retirement Study. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A . 2021;76(6):1117-1123. doi:10.1093/gerona/glab016.
Zhao E, Crimmins EM. Mortality and morbidity in ageing men: Biology, Lifestyle and Environment. Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. Forthcoming. doi:10.1007/s11154-022-09737-6.
Farina MP, Kim JKi, Crimmins EM. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Biological Aging and Their Life Course Socioeconomic Determinants: The 2016 Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Aging and Health. 2023. doi:10.1177/08982643221120743.
Faul J, Kim JKi, Levine ME, Thyagarajan B, Weir DR, Crimmins EM. Epigenetic-based age acceleration in a representative sample of older Americans: Associations with aging-related morbidity and mortality. PNAS. 2023;120(9):e2215840120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2215840120.
Klopack ET, Crimmins EM, Cole SW, Seeman TE, Carroll JE. Social stressors associated with age-related T lymphocyte percentages in older US adults: Evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022;119(25):e2202780119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2202780119.