Jennifer Ailshire

  • Assistant Professor of Gerontology, USC Davis School
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College
Office: (213) 740-7245

Expertise Summary

Expert in health and aging in communities

Expertise

  • health and aging
  • centenarians
  • role of neighborhoods and community in health and well-being
  • stress and sleep, reasons behind lack of sleep in US
  • air pollution and health in older adults
  • demographics of aging
  • health and retirement
  • issues of open access for social science

Languages

  • Spanish

Additional Information

  • Recipient of National Institute on Aging Pathways to Independence Award
  • Conducts research using data from the Health and Retirement Study longest-running study of aging in the U.S.