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Past Event

Megan Todd - The Biology of Disadvantage: The Immune System and Social Inequality

December 7, 2017
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
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Lewisohn Hall (Room 602), Columbia University, New York

Speaker: Megan Todd, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia Aging Center

Registration required; to attend, please RSVP to: [email protected]. A light lunch will be served.

Dr. Megan Todd is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Columbia Aging Center. She received her PhD in demography and public affairs in 2015 from the Office of Population Research and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Dr. Todd studies how social factors influence health and aging. Dr. Todd’s work primarily focuses on 1) the biological pathways that link social and economic disadvantage with health disadvantage, 2) benefits and drawbacks of various measures of population health, and 3) determinants of healthy aging.

This event is sponsored by The Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center and is part of the Columbia Aging Center Brown Bag Seminar series.