English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

ELSA Team

Collaborating Institutions

• University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
• Institute for Fiscal Studies
• National Centre for Social Research
• University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry

Principal Investigator

The principal investigator for ELSA is Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, and Director of the International Institute for Society and Health, UCL.

Management Group (and Scientific Team)

• James Banks, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Department of Economics, UCL
• Richard Blundell, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Department of Economics, UCL
• Kate Cox, National Centre for Social Research
• Carli Lessof, National Centre for Social Research
• Michael Marmot, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• James Nazroo, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
• Nina Rogers, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Andrew Steptoe, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

Other Members of Scientific Team

• Panos Demakakos, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Edlira Gjonca, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Felicia Huppert, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
• Saffron Karlsen Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Meena Kumari, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Anne McMunn, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Jibby Medina, National Centre for Social Research
• Maggie Mo, National Centre for Social Research
• Ali Muriel, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Susan Nunn, National Centre for Social Research
• Zoë Oldfield, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Cesar d'Oliveira, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Shaun Scholes, National Centre for Social Research
• Nick Steel, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia
• Gemma Tetlow, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• James Trinder, National Centre for Social Research
• Kelly Ward, National Centre for Social Research
• Natasha Wood, National Centre for Social Research
• Paola Zaninotto, Departmemt of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

Administrator

• Sheema Ahmed, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

Consultants to the study

• Professor Melanie Bartley, International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
• Professor Lisa F. Berkman, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
• Professor David Blane, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College London
• Professor Axel Börsch-Supan, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Ageing, Mannheim University, Germany
• Professor Nicholas Christakis, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Professor Richard Disney, IFS and Department of Economics, University of Nottingham
• Dr Paul Higgs, Centre for Behavioural Studies in Medicine, UCL
• Professor Hideki Hashimoto, Department of Health Economics and Epidemiology Research, University of Tokyo School of Public Health, Japan
• Dr Michael Hurd, Center for the Study of Aging, RAND Corporation, California
• Professor Hal Kendig, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Concord, NSW, Australia
• Professor David Laibson, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
• Dr Kenneth M. Langa, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Professor John J. McArdle, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Professor Johan Mackenbach, Department of Public Health, University of Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Professor David Melzer, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter
• Dr Marcus Richards, Programme Leader, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London
• Professor Kenneth Rockwood, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
• Professor Johannes Siegrist, Institute of Medical Sociology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
• Dr Paul G. Shekelle, Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, USA
• Dr James P. Smith, Senior economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, USA
• Professor Robert B. Wallace, Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, USA
• Professor David Weir, Health and Retirement Study, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Professor Robert Willis, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Advisory Committee

• Chair: Baroness Sally Greengross, Chief Executive, International Longevity Centre
• Professor Michael Bury, Department of Social and Political Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Professor Emily Grundy, Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Professor Ruth Hancock, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia
• Professor Sarah Harper, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford
• Professor Tom Kirkwood, Institute of Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle
• Mr Tom Ross (retired), Aon Consulting
• Professor Jacqui Smith, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
• Professor Anthea Tinker, Institute of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London
• Professor Christina Victor, School of Health and Social Care, University of Reading
• Professor Alan Walker, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield