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Diane Lauderdale

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Dr. Diane Lauderdale is a professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. Public Health Sciences includes epidemiology, biostatistics and health services research. Her main research interests are in epidemiology of aging, health of immigrants, and sleep and health. She has been the principal investigator of NIH-, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- and American Cancer Society-funded studies. Currently she leads the sleep substudy for the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project, a nationally-representative panel study of social life and health, supported by NIA. She is also a trustee of NORC, a member of the NIH Social Sciences and Population Studies (SSPA) study section and President-Elect of SER.

Dr. Lauderdale received a BA in Religion from Harvard, MA degrees in Divinity and Library Science from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois School of Public Health. She started at the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor in 1996.