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The principal investigators of the study are David E. Bloom (Harvard), Perianayagam Arokiasamy (IIPS), and Jinkook Lee (RAND).

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LASI Key Contributors

LASI Advisory Committees

Key Contributors

The following are key contributing researchers from Harvard University:

• David E. Bloom, Harvard Principal Investigator of LASI, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at HSPH.
• Lisa Berkman, Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology at HSPH.
• David Canning, professor of Economics and International Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at HSPH and Deputy Director of Harvard’s Program on the Global Demography of Aging.
• Amitabh Chandra, assistant professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
• Nicholas Christakis, professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, and professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University (Faculty of Arts and Sciences).
• Ajay Mahal, associate professor in the Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH.
• S. V. Subramanian, associate professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at HPSH.

The following are key contributing researchers from IIPS:

• Perianayagam Arokiasamy, IIPS Principal Investigator of LASI and professor in the Department of Development Studies at IIPS.
• Sulabha Parasuraman, professor and head of the Department of Population Policies and Programmes at IIPS.
• T. V. Sekher, associate professor in the Department of Population Policies and Programmes at IIPS.
• S. K. Mohanty, associate professor in the Department of Fertility Studies at IIPS.

The following are key contributing researchers from RAND:

• Jinkook Lee, RAND Principal Investigator of LASI, economist in Labor and Population at the RAND Corporation, and professor in the Department of Consumer Sciences at Ohio State University.
• Bas Weerman, Senior Information Systems Analyst at the RAND Corporation.
• Adeline Delavande, economist at the RAND Corporation.
• Joanne K. Yoong, associate economist at the RAND Corporation.

Advisory Committees

In addition to the contributing faculty from Harvard, IIPS, and RAND, LASI has also enlisted the support and experience of academics and professionals from around the world. Together, these individuals make up LASI’s national and international advisory committees.

The following individuals are members of LASI’s National Advisory Committee (NAC):

• P.M. Kulkarni, Chair of LASI’s NAC and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
• Faujdar Ram, Director of IIPS, Mumbai.
• Additional Director General (statistics), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi.
• Chief Director (statistics), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi.
• Director General of Health Services (DGHS),or representative, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi.
• Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), or representative, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi.
• Suman Bery, Director-General of India’s National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.
• Shalini Bharat, professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
• Arvind Mathur, practicing physician and professor of geriatric medicine, Jodhpur.
• Nandan Nilekani, founder and co-chairman of Infosys Technologies, Ltd, Bangalore.
• Irudaya Rajan, professor at the Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum.
• Srinath Reddy, practicing cardiologist and president of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi.
• Gita Sen, Sir Ratan Tata Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; adjunct professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the HSPH.
  

The following individuals are members of LASI’s International Advisory Committee (IAC):

• James Banks, professor of economics at University College London, Deputy Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Co-Principal Investigator of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).
• Axel Börsch-Supan, professor of economics at Universitat Mannheim, Germany, and Principal Investigator of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
• Somnath Chatterji, Principal Investigator of WHO’s Study of Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE).
• Arie Kapteyn, Director of Labor & Population at the RAND Corporation and the Chair of the SHARE Monitoring Committee.
• Michael Marmot, professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College, London, Director of the International Institute for Society and Health at University College London, and Co-Principal Investigator of ELSA.
• James P. Smith, Chair of LASI’s IAC, senior economist and RAND Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies at the RAND Corporation, Chair of the NIA Data Monitoring Committee.
• David Wise, John F. Stambaugh professor of political economy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Director of Economics of Aging at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
• David Weir, research professor at University of Michigan and Director of the HRS.
• Yaohui Zhao, professor of economics at Beijing University and Principal Investigator of CHARLS.