Research Themes

The Program on the Global Demography of Aging’s research focuses on four main themes:

• measurement of the global pattern of disease, mortality, and morbidity in aging populations
• determinants of population health and aging
• economics of Medicare
• demographic and economic consequences of global aging

Ongoing PGDA research can be found under Pilot Projects and Working Papers.
PGDA Themes and Theme Leaders

Measurement of the global patterns of disease, mortality, and morbidity:
Kenneth Hill
Gary King
Joshua Salomon

Social determinants of population health and aging:
Lisa Berkman
Nicholas Christakis

Economics of health care provision for the elderly:
Joseph P. Newhouse
Thomas McGuire
Amitabh Chandra

Macroeconomic consequences of population aging:
David Bloom
David Canning

Migration:
Mary Waters
George Borjas