Aging Seminar: Uncertain Future of US & UK Mortality & Healthy Aging
Join us for the Columbia Aging Center’s HYBRID seminar. Please register to attend in-person or virtually.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2024, 11:45AM-12:45PM ET
Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality and Healthy Aging in the US and UK
Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD
Professor of Demography and Population Health Deputy Director,
Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
Nuffield Department of Population Health
University of Oxford
Hybrid seminar
Location: Zoom or 722 West 168th Street, Hess Commons
Register to attend in-person and via Zoom at: https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuc-CopzwtG9R3N7nY3vUF-PxXLXFpDnOu
About Dr. Dowd’s talk:
Steady and significant improvements in life expectancy have been a bright spot for human progress for the last century or more. Recently, this success has shown signs of faltering in some high-income countries such as the US and UK, where mortality improvements have slowed or even reversed since the early 2010s. Combined with the large mortality shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, guaranteed forward progress feels less certain. In this talk, I review recent trends and discuss prospects for the future of mortality in high-income countries, including lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, challenges and opportunities related to the obesity epidemic, and emerging reasons for both optimism and pessimism.
