Research/Areas of Interest
Social epidemiology, health policy, population aging, mortality trends, work/retirement, mental health
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States
- Master of Public Health, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States
Biography
Leah Abrams is a population health and aging researcher in the Department of Community Health. She came to Tufts from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies where she was a Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Abrams' research and teaching interests include social epidemiology, health policy, population aging, mortality trends, work/retirement, and mental health. Her work 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. Dr. Abrams holds a PhD in health policy and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.