Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

Dr. Danan Gu works at United Nations Population Division. He has an extensive publication record. His research mainly covers health and longevity, population aging, family demography and its applications, urbanization, population spatial analysis, estimates and projections. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Population Studies, and a Section Editor of BMC Geriatrics. He is an Editor for a Springer Book Series on Advances in Studies of Aging and Health. He also serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and Journal of Aging and Health. Dr. Matthew E. Dupre is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Sociology at Duke University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development and faculty at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.  Dr. Dupre is a nationally recognized medical sociologist and social epidemiologist who is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of health disparities in older adults. His work has been funded by numerous NIH and foundation grants and has appeared in American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, Demography, JAMA, Journals of Gerontology, Social Forces, and other leading journals in aging, medicine, and the social sciences. Dr. Dupre has also served on Editorial Boards for the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, BMC Geriatrics, and the International Journal of Population Studies.