Jennifer Ailshire
- Assistant Professor of Gerontology, USC Davis School
- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College
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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.