Eileen M Crimmins

Director, USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, University of Southern California
Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California

PhD, University of Pennsylvania
MA, University of Pennsylvania

Known for her work on trends in mortality and morbidity, Dr. Crimmins has contributed to the development of the literature on active life expectancy, shedding light on topics such as socioeconomic factors in health outcomes.

Her current research includes an NIA-funded project examining how markers of biological risk can be used to explain poorer health outcomes among older people with less education and lower incomes. She is also working with researchers at Nihon University in Tokyo, comparing health and risk factors for persons in Japan and the U.S.

Email Address
213-740-1707

Related Publications

Crimmins EM. 2004. Trends in the Health of the Elderly. Annual Review of Public Health 25:79-98.

Freedman VA, Crimmins EM, Schoeni RF, Spillman BC, Aykan H, Kramarow E, Land K, Lubitz J, Manton KG, Martin LG, Shinberg D, Waidmann TA. 2004. Resolving Inconsistencies in Trends in Old-Age Disability: Report From a Technical Working Group. Demography 41(3):417-41.

Crimmins EM, and Saito Y. 2001. Trends in health life expectancy in the United States, 1970-1990: gender, racial, and educational differences. Journal of Social Science and Medicine 52:1629-1641.

Crimmins EM, and Saito Y. 2000. Change in the prevalence of diseases among older Americans: 1984-1994. Journal of Demographic Research 3(9).

Crimmins EM, Reynolds SL, Saito Y. 1999. Trends in Health and Ability to Work Among the Older Working-Age Population. Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 54(1): S31-S40.

Reynolds SL, Crimmins EM, and Saito Y. 1998. Cohort differences in disability and disease presence. The Gerontologist 38: 578-590.

Crimmins EM, Saito Y, and Reynolds SL. 1997. Further evidence on recent trends in the prevalence and incidence of disability among older Americans from two sources: The LSOA and the NHIS. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 52B, S59-S71.

Crimmins EM. 1996. Mixed trends in population health among older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 51:S223-S225.

Crimmins EM, Hayward MD, Saito Y. 1994. Changing Mortality and Morbidity Rates and the Health-Status and Life Expectancy of the Older Population. Demography 31(1): 159-175.