Lindsay Kobayashi
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Summary
My research investigates the social and economic life course determinants of healthy cognitive aging across diverse high-, middle-, and low-income countries, with a particular focus on South Africa. I am currently leading two NIH-funded R01 projects in global public health. The first project uses complementary study designs and government social policy data to investigate the causal role of income in dementia risk among older adults in rural South Africa. The second project uses harmonized data to identify socioeconomic and cardiovascular sources of cross-national variation in later-life cognitive health. I am an Honorary Senior Researcher in the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and I currently teach EPID 506 (Introduction to International Health) at the University of Michigan. I am a member of the African Social Research Initiative Steering Committee at the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan, and I advise several PhD and MPH students who are conducting global public health research at the University of Michigan.