Eileen M. Crimmins

Eileen Crimmins is a University Professor and the AARP Chair in Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. She is currently a director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, one of the Demography of Aging Centers supported by the U.S. National Institute on Aging. She is also a Director of the Multidisciplinary Training in Gerontology Program and the NIA-sponsored Network on Biological Risk. Crimmins is a co-investigator of the Health and Retirement Study in the U.S.

Much of Crimmins’ research has focused on changes in health for individuals with age and over time in population health and mortality. Crimmins has been instrumental in organizing and promoting the recent integration of the measurement of biological indicators in large population surveys. She has served as co-chair of a Committee for the National Academy of Sciences to address why life expectancy in the U.S. is falling so far behind that of other countries. She has co-edited several books with a focus on international aging, mortality and health expectancy, including Determining Health Expectancies; Longer Life and Healthy Aging; Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-old Population; and the International Handbook of Adult Mortality. 

Crimmins received her PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania.