Michal Engelman
Assistant Professor
B.A. History, Harvard, 2001
M.H.S. Population & Health, Johns Hopkins, 2006
M.H.S. Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins, 2010
Ph.D. Population & Health, Johns Hopkins, 2010
Office: Social Sciences 421
Phone: 773-834-9892
Email: mengelman@uchicago.edu
CV: Curriculum Vita
Michal Engelman is a demographer and gerontologist studying the dynamics of population aging and the determinants of longevity and well being at older ages. She is particularly interested in understanding trajectories of health throughout the life course and their connection with changing aggregate patterns of mortality and morbidity over time. Her work explores the factors that differentiate individual health histories and shape population trends.
Engelman’s research has three areas of focus: mortality changes during periods of demographic and epidemiologic transitions, aging in the context of economic and social change, and life course factors which contribute to health disparities. She is currently analyzing the implications of historical population change for contemporary health inequalities and developing a conceptual framework linking demographic and clinical notions of frailty and resilience with the sociological concept of cumulative disadvantage.
Engelman’s scholarship engages with theories in formal demography and social gerontology and applies mathematical and statistical methods to examine increasingly heterogeneous older populations in a variety of international settings.
Centers
Population Research Center, Center on Aging
Research Interests
Population, Health and Medicine, Methods and Models, Aging and the Life Course
Selected Publications
Engelman, Michal, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, and Emily Agree. 2010. The implications of increased survivorship for mortality variation in aging populations. Population and Development Review 36(3):511-539.
Engelman, Michal, Emily M. Agree, Lucy Meoni, and Michael J. Klag. 2010. Propositional density and cognitive function in later life: Results from the Precursors Study. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 65(6):706-11.
Engelman, Michal, Emily Agree, Kathryn Yount, and David Bishai. 2010. Parity and parents' health in later-life: The gendered case of Ismailia, Egypt. Population Studies64(2): 165 -178.
Canudas-Romo, Vladimir, and Michal Engelman. 2009. Maximum life expectancies: Revisiting the best practice trends. Genus 65(1): 59-79.
Engelman, Michal. 2008. `Aging and Health' in Encyclopedia of Public Health Ed. Wilhelm Kirch. Dresden: Springer Publishing.
Engelman, Michal, and S. Johnson. 2007. Population aging and international development: Addressing competing claims of distributive justice. Developing World Bioethics 7(1): 8-18.
