PRI Brown Bag Lecture Series - Dr. Leah Abrams

PRI Brown Bag Lecture Series

Dr. Leah Abrams, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health, Tufts University

October 22, 2024 / 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

“The 'Double Jeopardy' of Midlife and Old Age: Mortality Trends in the United States”

Leah Abrams, Assistant Professor, Community Health, Tufts University

Research/Areas of Interest

Social epidemiology, health policy, population aging, work/retirement, mortality trends, mental health

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States
• Master of Public Health, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States

Biography

Leah Abrams is a population health and aging researcher in the Department of Community Health. She came to Tufts from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies where she was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Abrams' research and teaching interests include social epidemiology, health policy, population aging, mortality trends, work/retirement, and mental health. Her work has been published in peer reviewed journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, International Journal of Epidemiology, and The Gerontologist. Dr. Abrams holds a PhD in health policy and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.