Anna Zajacova is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Zajacova studies social determinants of population health across the life course, and her signature work is explaining the education gap in mortality among U.S. white women. Her research aims to understand how and why educational attainment is related to health. She also pursues other areas of inquiry, such as how the sociopolitical contexts of US states influence health and health disparities in their populations, and how disability among American adults changed in recent years and what caused the changes. She recently joined other experts from 32 partner institutions on The Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3): Developing Talent for Population Analytics in Aging Societies where young researchers across Canada will be encouraged to develop data skills to fully analyze, assess, and address the spectrum of policy and ethical implications of an aging population.
