Irma T. Elo in the News

PSC & PARC Associate, Irma T. Elo has been awarded the 2019 Making a Difference in Diverse Communities Grant for her "Cognitive Decline with Aging in Diverse Chilean Communities and in Comparison with Mexico and the U.S" project with fellow PSC & PARC Associate Jere R. Behrman.

A study by Samuel Preston and Irma Elo uses nationally representative data to estimate the mortality hazards associated with diabetes, combining those hazards with the prevalence of diabetes to estimate the fraction of deaths attributable to diabetes and its effect on life expectancy. Evaluating the impact of diabetes on age-specific mortality may be salient in identifying the effect of rising obesity levels on US mortality and its contribution to racial/ethnic mortality disparities. Read more about this project here.

Pictured above from left to right: Jeffrey Lin, Iourii Manovskii, Mallick Hossain, and Keith Sill.
Learn about our new partner, the Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center. Speakers at the opening celebration included: Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician of the United States, Ron Jarmin, Performing the Nonexclusive Functions and Duties of the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Keith Sill, Senior Vice President and Director, Real-Time Research Data Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and PSC Research Associate Iourii Manovskii, Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Philadelphia FSRDC, University of Pennsylvania. PSC Director Herbert L. Smith and PARC Director Irma T. Elo were also in attendance, along with George Mailath, Chair of Economics and ex officio member of the PSC Executive Committee, and Monica King, ADRF Director, representing the PSC's "big data" initiative. Read the press release here.

Irma Elo's recent paper in SSM-Population Health (with Mehta, Stenholm, Aromaa, Heliövaara, and Koskinen) "International Differences in the Risk of Death from Smoking and Obesity: The case of the United States and Finland" is featured on the Research Spotlights web page of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and in the monthly newsletter. 

Iourii Manovskii and Irma T. Elo have been instrumental in getting Penn involved in the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) which was highlighted in the Omnia article "Penn Partnering with Census Bureau for Research."

PSC Research Associate Irma Elo, on behalf of PAA’s Committee on Population Statistics, convened a group of experts on race/ethnicity to a meeting at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC to give feedback to Census Bureau staff on the Bureau’s 2015 National Content Test research for improving data collection on race/ethnicity. 

Mikko Myrskylä, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, visited the PSC today. He is photographed here with Irma Elo.

Population Association of America 2016 Nominations include: Presidential nomination for Irma T. Elo, Nomination Committee nomination for Hans-Peter Kohler, and Board of Directors nomination for former graduate Quincy Stewart ('01).

Irma T. Elo has been reappointed to the Swedish Initiative for Research on Microdata in the Social And Medical Sciences Scientific Advisory Board (SIMSAM SAB) from September 2014 through August 2015.

Samuel H. Preston and Irma T. Elo's recent study forthcoming in the journal Population and Development Review on New York City's mortality decline is discussed in the New York Times.

Irma T. Elo has been appointed to the U.S. Census Bureau Scientific Advisory Committee and is one of 10 new appointees. Read the press release.

Irma Elo joined the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Population Sciences Subcommittee as a regular member on July 1, 2011.