Skip to main content
GSA 2023 Main banner
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.
Back

Lauren L. Schmitz, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Lauren Schmitz is an Assistant Professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research uses data and methods from economics, public health, and genomics to examine how social inequality erodes health at a molecular level and speeds up the aging process. She takes a life course view of aging that considers how social disadvantage shapes health from the prenatal period through adulthood and into old age. To capture the dynamic interplay between our inner biology and our socioeconomic circumstances, her work marries cutting edge genetic and epigenetic measures with data on the social environment from population-based longitudinal studies and randomized control trials. She primarily use methods for learning causal effects from observational data with the aim of identifying policy targets that support quality of life and extend healthspan. She received a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to examine social determinants of epigenetic processes related to aging and cognitive decline. In addition to the NIA, her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Center for Retirement Research, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the March of Dimes. She received an M.S. in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research.

Disclosure information not submitted.

Presentation(s):