Leah R. Abrams

I am a population health and aging researcher in the Department of Community Health at Tufts University. I joined Tufts as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2022, following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. My research and teaching interests include social epidemiology, health policy, health equity, population aging, work/retirement, mental health, and chronic disease mortality. Specifically, I aim to contribute evidence to understanding recent trends in U.S. life expectancy and to addressing the challenges of working longer for the aging population. My research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, International Journal of Epidemiology, The Gerontologist, and Social Science & Medicine. I hold an MPH in Epidemiology and a PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.