Dr. Elo has a PhD in Demography and Public Affairs from Princeton University. She is a Research Associate at the Population Studies Center and the Population Aging Research Center. She has previously served as Department Chair and Director of the Population Studies Center and the Population Aging Research Center. She has been a member and/or a chair of several national and international committees, including chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), member of the Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC), member and chair of the section on the sociology of population for the American Sociological Association, member of the PAA’s board of directors, and chair of the PAA’s Committee on Population Statistics. She was elected as President of the Population Association of America in 2023. Her main research interests center on socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health, cognition, and mortality across the life course and demographic estimation of mortality. In recent years, she has extended this focus to include health and mortality of the US foreign-born population.
Project Website: American Mortality
Ph.D. Public Affairs and Demography, Princeton University, 1990
M.P.A. Public Affairs, Princeton University, 1986
B.A. Political Science, University of Arkansas, 1976