On April 4th, 2024, The New York Times featured insights from AFAR Scientific Director Nir Barzilai, MD, in article exploring how and what we know about the health of the presidential candidates, and how this could affect future elections.
Read the article, “What Are We Told About the Health of Biden and Trump? They Decide.” here.
For more perspectives from aging researchers and advocates on the health of the candidates’, read a transcript from the AFAR Media Briefing, “Asking the Right Questions: Aging and the Presidential Election.” AFAR Senior Scientific Director Steven N. Austad, PhD, moderated a discussion with former AFAR board member S. Jay Olshansky, PhD (Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago), Ben Barnes (former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives), and Bradley Willcox, MD, MSc, FGSA, (Professor and Director of Research at the Department of Geriatric Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai‘i Mānoa. Learn more and download the transcript here.
