Current Appointments & Affiliations
Statistician, Sr
Center for Population Health & Aging,
Duke Population Research Institute
Statistician, Sr
Social Science Research Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Statistician, Sr
Duke Population Research Institute,
Social Science Research Institute
Recent Publications
Long-term economic growth stimulus of human capital preservation in the elderly.
Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · December 2009 Health care is a crucial factor in US economic growth, because growing health care costs have made US corporations less competitive than their counterparts in countries where central governments assume most of those costs. In this paper we illustrate a sec ... Full text CiteNIH funding trajectories and their correlations with US health dynamics from 1950 to 2004.
Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2009 To determine optimal future National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding levels, the longitudinal correlation of the level of investment in NIH research with population changes in the risk of specific diseases should be analyzed. This is because NIH researc ... Full text CiteCohort changes in active life expectancy in the U.S. elderly population: experience from the 1982-2004 National Long-Term Care Survey.
Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · September 2008 ObjectivesTo understand declines in chronic disability prevalence in the U.S. elderly population, we examined cohort changes in active life expectancy, a health measure relating population disability and longevity dynamics.MethodsWe compu ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Genetic Modulations of Morbidity Compression: A Population-Based Study
ResearchStatistician · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2020 - 2026Actuarial Certification for Medicaid Upper Payment Limit for the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
ResearchSenior Statistician · Awarded by Hause Actuarial Solutions, Inc. · 2017 - 2018Genetic Modulations of Morbidity Compression: A Population-Based Study
ResearchStatistician · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018View All Grants