International Commission

As part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity, an International Commission that includes stakeholders and representatives from key participating institutions worldwide worked together to perform an assessment of the existing and projected risks, challenges, and opportunities presented by global aging.

This Commission recommended global priorities and actions to be addressed by 2030 to optimize the health, function, and well-being of all people into later life. The Commission is geographically/demographically diverse and consists of eminent individuals from both the public and private sectors with expertise in gerontology and geriatrics, demography, the social determinants of health, behavioral health, built environments, business and workforce, economics, health care delivery and financing, biomedical science and technology, and health and finance policy, among others.

Many of the Commissioners were “dual-hatted” as members of the “workstream teams” (or workshop planning committees). The Commission worked across the workstream teams to define the workshop tasks, agendas, and workshop speakers.

Linda Fried
Co-Chair | Dean, Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University
John Eu-Li Wong
Co-Chair | Isabel Chan Professor in Medical Sciences Senior Vice President, Health Innovation and Translation The National University of Singapore
Isabella Aboderin
Professor of Gerontology and Perivoli Chair in Africa Research and Partnerships University of Bristol
Ann Aerts
Head Novartis Foundation
John Beard
Professor ARC Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research University of New South Wales
Lisa Berkman
Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Laura Carstensen
Director, Stanford Center on Longevity Stanford University
Michele J. Grimm
Wielenga Creative Engineering Endowed Professor Michigan State University
Paul Irving
Chairperson Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging
Mehmood Khan
Chief Executive Officer Life Biosciences
Mosa Moshabela
Dean and Head School of Nursing and Public Health University of KwaZulu-Natal
Hiroki Nakatani
Professor Keio University
John Piggott
Scientia Professor, Director ARC Centre of Excellence in Population, Ageing Research (CEPAR) Director, Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research (AIPAR) School of Economics, University of London Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia University of Sydney
Jennie Popay
Professor of Sociology and Public Health Lancaster University
John (Jack) W. Rowe
Professor, Mailman School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management Columbia University
Andrew J. Scott
Professor of Economics London Business School Co-Founder, The Longevity Forum
Jeanette Vega
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer Red de Salud UC-Christus
Eric Verdin
President and CEO Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Yaohui Zhao
Professor of Economics China Center for Economic Research of Peking University