Epi Seminar - Understanding Life Course Determinants of Health and Aging: A Methodologic and Pedagogic Perspective.

Presenter Bio: Dr. Katrina Kezios is an epidemiologist and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Prior to her postdoc, she received a PhD in epidemiology from Columbia, where she was a T32 predoctoral fellow in the Lifecourse Environmental Epidemiology Training Program and received awards for her research and teaching contributions. Her research focuses on the life course drivers of aging-related outcomes and disparities, with emphasis on examining how social and financial stressors operate across the life course to harm cognition and impact risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). In much of her work, she leverages causal inference frameworks and approaches to clarify and address methodological challenges in life course research. In addition, she has a line of meta-research work inspired by her interest in and experience teaching epidemiologic methods. As a whole, Dr. Kezios’s program of research integrates life course and social epidemiology with methodological and pedagogical perspectives that serve to develop and strengthen evidence on when and how to intervene to prevent and reduce ADRD outcomes and disparities.