From Cells to Society: Rethinking Public Policy in a Changing World
Assistant Professor Esteban Calvo
Moderated by Ursula Staudinger
March 8, 2018 · 12-1PM
Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411
The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues of global importance. No registration is required. Light lunch will be available.
About the Speaker
Esteban Calvo is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, affiliated faculty at the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, and Director of the Center for Public Policy Research at Universidad Mayor, Chile. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Universidad Catolica, Chile, and served as a consultant for Harvard University, the United Nations, and the Government of Chile. His research interests include aging and the lifecourse, social epidemiology, public policy, subjective well-being, and quantitative methods.
Much of his work aims to identify and understand the social factors experienced across the life course that influence the health and happiness of older adults, as well as to evaluate public policies and interventions that can improve their well-being and benefit society as a whole. His current research agenda includes three threads: (1) assessing the impact of lifecourse statuses, transitions, and trajectories on a variety of health outcomes, from self-reports to physical measures and biomarkers; (2) understanding how individuals react to social contexts and public policies that they experience over the lifecourse; and (3) improving our understanding of the challenges and opportunities posed by demographic change to aging-related policy throughout the world.
His recent publications focus on the health effects of retirement, life satisfaction effects of unemployment and pension policy, and cultural and structural determinants of social security and health policy reforms worldwide. Esteban Calvo is the recipient of awards from the American Public Health Association, American Sociological Association, Gerontological Society of America, and Retirement Research Foundation.
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Photo Gallery
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- CGT Fellow, Professor Kian Tajbakhsh asks a question after the talk
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- Professor Calvo discussing public policy
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- Participants eating lunch while Professor Calvo gives a presentation
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- Attendees listening to the talk
