Session 4: What Is the Future of Psychiatric Epidemiology?
Résumé
Social determinants of health play a major role in shaping population health and healthy aging. In this presentation we will focus on conditions in mid life particularly around working conditions and social isolation that lead to healthy population aging. Using a life course approach we focus on those conditions in mid life that predict successful aging in terms of physical and mental health.
Lisa Berkman
Lisa Berkman is the Thomas D Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology and Global and Population Health. As an internationally recognized social epidemiologist, Professor Berkman's work focuses on social and policy determinants of population health. Her work focuses on social inequalities and the role of social networks and isolation with special emphasis on aging and cognitive decline. She is past president of the American Population Association and Society for Epidemiological Research and a member of the US National Academy of Medicine.
