The 2007 De Jong Lecture in Social Demography

Social Class Health and Mortality Differentials: Are There Important Selection Effects?

Alberto Palloni is Board of Trustees Professor in Sociology and a faculty associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Dr. Palloni, who received his B.A. from Catholic University in Chile and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, spent over 25 years in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the Population Association of America. During his distinguished career, he has served in advisory and consulting capacities to the National Research Council, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations. His approximately 100 publications cover a wide range of topics, with current work focusing on the relation between early health status and social stratification, the spread of HIV/AIDS, families and households in Africa and Latin America, aging and mortality, and mathematical models and statistical applications. Support for Dr. Palloni's research has come from NSF, NIH, NIA, the Rockefeller and Robert Wood Johnson foundations, and the Pan American Health Organization, among other sources.

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