S. Jay Olshansky
American scientist
Stuart Jay Olshansky is an emeritus professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago concentrating on biodemography and gerontology and was co-founder and chief scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc.
He is also a research associate at the Center on Aging (University of Chicago) and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Olshansky is an associate editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences and Biogerontology and is a member of the editorial boards of several other scientific journals. Olshansky has been working with colleagues in the biological sciences to develop the modern "biodemographic paradigm" of mortality – an effort to understand the biological nature of the survival and dying out processes of living organisms. The focus of his research has been on estimates of the upper limits to human longevity, exploring the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, forecasts of the size, survival, and age structure of the population, pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people (The Longevity Dividend), and global implications of the re-emergence of infectious and parasitic diseases, and insurance linked securities.
Biography
Olshansky was born on February 22, 1954. He attended Michigan State University and was awarded a B.S. in psychology in 1975. He then attended the University of Chicago and was awarded a M.S. in sociology in 1982. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1984.
His work on biodemography has been funded by a Special Emphasis Research Career Award and an Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute on Aging and a research grant from the U.S. Social Security Administration starting in 1991.
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