Shiro Furuya

Shiro Furuya earned a PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a social demographer with substantive interests in health, aging and the life course, and family. His dissertation examined how retirement causes (or does not cause) inequalities in health and well-being among older people. His work also takes an interdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from statistical genetics to address causal and selective processes that generate inequalities in a population. As a Bell Fellow, Shiro is broadening the scope of his research by addressing underlying mechanisms of how social factors cause inequalities in health, family, behaviors, and socioeconomic status.