NACDA Podcast 5 - Lisa Berkman

This 28 minute interview features Dr. Lisa Berkman

• P.I. of the Health and Aging in South Africa (HAALSI) study and Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
• She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist with over 300 publications and focuses on social and policy influences on health outcomes, and the epidemiology of aging.

In this podcast, we talk with Dr. Berkman about research collaborations, the research potential of HAALSI, and what makes HAALSI unique.

Dr. Berkman’s Recent Publications:

• Disparity in Educational Attainment Partially Explains Cognitive Gender Differences in Older Rural South Africans. Farrell MT, Kobayashi LC, Montana L, Wagner RG, Demeyere N, Berkman L.J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2020 Aug 13;75(7).
• Life-Course Trauma and Later Life Mental, Physical, and Cognitive Health in a Postapartheid South African Population: Findings From the HAALSI study. Payne CF, Mall S, Kobayashi L, Kahn K, Berkman L.J Aging Health. 2020 Oct;32(9):1244-1257. doi: 10.1177/0898264320913450. Epub 2020 Mar 24.PMID: 32207348 .
• Age and Gender Differences in Social Network Composition and Social Support Among Older Rural South Africans: Findings From the HAALSI Study. Harling G, Morris KA, Manderson L, Perkins JM, Berkman LF.J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2020 Jan 1;75(1):148-159. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gby013.PMID: 29590472
• Social epidemiology: social determinants of health in the United States: are we losing ground? Berkman LF.Annu Rev Public Health. 2009;30:27-41. doi: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100310.PMID: 19705554 Review