Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez’s research focuses on developing and applying demographic methodologies to studying adult population health at national and individual levels. He holds a PhD in demography from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and an MS in mathematics from Northern Arizona University. As a Bell Fellow, he furthered his research by linking increases in life expectancy with human longevity, and by studying the implications of longer life expectancy on compression/extension of morbidity. He also continued his research on physiological and health patterns in the adult Mexican population and their links with earlier life conditions. (Hiram is currently professor of community health sciences & sociology at UCLA, and associate director of the UCLA California Center for Population Research.)