Global Aging & Community Initiative
About UsIn April 2020, Zachary Zimmer and Chi-Tsun Chiu presented an asynchronous presentation for Population Association of America's Annual Conference on Living Arrangement Trends among China’s Oldest and Extreme Old. Click on the screen to download the presentation.
Long-term Impact of War and Wartime Trauma on Health and Aging Other Research Demography of Pain Family, Household Formation & Intergenerational Support Demographic Perspectives on Old Age Disability and Health Religiosity and Health
Bussarawan (Puk) Teerawichitchainan holds joint appointments as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Family and Population Research. Her current research examines the roles of family, policy, and social structure in explaining the well-being of older persons in the Asia Pacific region, particularly Southeast Asia. This includes an ongoing … Continue reading Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan
Kim Korinek is Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Asia Center at the University of Utah and she is Principal Investigator of the Vietnam Health and Aging Study (VHAS). Kim is currently the PI of the Henry Luce Foundation funded “Mekong Region Development Research Group,” and the PI of the five-year, National … Continue reading Kim Korinek
Dr. Toan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Family Medicine, Hanoi Medical University and he serves as the local PI in the Vietnam Health and Aging Study (VHAS). Toan is the coordinator of DodaLab, the only urban Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) in Vietnam. He has also been working as a senior … Continue reading Tran Khanh Toan
Anna Zajacova is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Western Ontario. She is collaborating with the GACI to examine trends and disparities in chronic pain in Canadian and American adults. Anna completed her PhD in Sociology and Demography at Princeton University and postdoctoral training in social epidemiology at University of Michigan. She studies social determinants … Continue reading Anna Zajacova
