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
• Elizabeth Breeze, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 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

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
• Maggie Mo, National Centre for Social Research
• Susan Nunn, National Centre for Social Research
• Zoë Oldfield, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Cesar d'Oliveira, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Nick Steel, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia
• Rebecca Taylor, National Centre for Social Research
• 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

• Orazio Attanasio, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Department of Economics, UCL
• Mel Bartley, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• David Blane, Centre for Social Science and Primary Care, Imperial College, London
• Axel Börsch-Supan, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Ageing, Mannheim University
• Richard Disney, IFS and School of Economics, University of Nottingham
• Paul Higgs, Centre for Behavioural Studies in Medicine, UCL
• Mike Hurd, RAND, California
• Martin Hyde, Department of Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University
• Costas Meghir, IFS and Department of Economics, UCL
• David Melzer, Peninsular Medical School, Exeter
• Jim Smith, RAND, California
• Beth Soldo, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
• Mike Wadsworth, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
• Bob Wallace, Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa
• David Weir, Institute for Social Research, Michigan
• Bob Willis, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Advisory Committee

• Baroness Sally Greengross (Chair), House of Lords
• Mike Bury, Department of Social and Political Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Emily Grundy, Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Ruth Hancock, Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex
• Sarah Harper, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford
• Tom Kirkwood, School of Clinical Medical Sciences Gerontology, University of Newcastle
• Ian Philp, Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing, University of Sheffield
• Tom Ross (Retired) Aon Consulting
• Jacqui Smith, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
• Anthea Tinker, Institute of Gerontology, King's College London
• Christina Victor, School of Health & Social Care, University of Reading
• Alan Walker, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield