Lindsay Kobayashi PhD

Lindsay C. Kobayashi's research focuses on the social epidemiology of cognitive aging from a global perspective. She investigates social and economic life course influences on cognitive aging, primarily using data from internationally harmonized longitudinal studies of aging, including older populations of the United States, England, India, China, Mexico, and South Africa. At the University of Michigan, she is a member of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), the Rogel Cancer Center, and the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. In recognition of her contributions to the social epidemiology of cognitive aging in rural South Africa, she is an Honorary Senior Researcher at the MRC/Wits Rural Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Dr. Kobayashi is co-leading an NIA-funded R01 (R01AG069128) with Dr. Molly Rosenberg at Indiana University, which aims to to determine how cumulative, randomized, and quasi-randomized socioeconomic exposures in mid-to-later- life affect memory decline and dementia risk in later-life, by linking three unique population data sources in South Africa that cover a 22-year period from 2000 to 2021. Dr. Kobayashi is co-leading an NIA-funded R01 (R01AG070953) with Dr. Alden Gross at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to estimate the contributions of key socioeconomic and cardiovascular dementia risk factors to later-life cognitive function between individuals and between countries in the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its International Partner Studies (IPS) in South Africa, Mexico, India, and England. Dr. Kobayashi is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Training on Health and Aging T32 program in the Department of Epidemiology, with Dr. Sung Kyun Park.