Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council
The Academic and Policy Council convenes prominent experts from a range of disciplines to advance policies and practices that improve the lives of older adults.
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Nobel Laureate; Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Alice Bonner
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Adjunct Faculty and Director of Strategic Partnerships for the CAPABLE Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
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Kathleen Brown
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Former California State treasurer
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Laura Carstensen
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Professor of Psychology and Farleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy, Stanford University; Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
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Angelique Chan
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Associate Professor & Executive Director, Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke NUS Medical School
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Pinchas Cohen
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
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Joseph Coughlin
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Founder and Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab
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Ken Dychtwald
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
President and CEO, Age Wave
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Ruth Finkelstein
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Rose Dobrof Executive Director & Professor of Urban Public Health, Brookdale Center for Aging, Hunter College, City University of New York
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Marc Freedman
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Founder and CEO, Encore.org
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Linda Fried
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
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Teresa Ghilarducci
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School
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Lynn Goldman
Future of Aging Advisory Board Council Member and Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Michael and Lori Milken Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University
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Jennie Hansen Chin
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Former CEO of the American Geriatrics Society
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Yves Joanette
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Director, Digital Health Consortium, University of Montréal
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Robert Kramer
Future of Aging Advisory Board Leadership Council Member
Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care; President and Founder, Nexus Insights
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Becca Levy
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Levy Becca Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health; Professor of Psychology, Yale University Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council ADVISORY/FELLOW "Becca Levy is professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public
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Jennifer Molinsky
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Project Director, Housing an Aging Society Program
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Andrew Scott
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Professor of Economics, London Business School; Co-Founder, The Longevity Forum; Author, “The 100-Year Life”
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Nirav Shah
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Senior Scholar, Stanford University
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Rodney Slater
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Co-Chairman, Transportation, Shipping and Logistics Practice, Squire Patton Boggs; Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
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Trent Stamp
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
CEO, The Eisner Foundation
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Fernando Torres-Gil
Future of Aging Advisory Board Academic and Policy Council Member
Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Research on Aging, University of California, Los Angeles