On February 15, 2024, AFAR hosted the Media Briefing "Asking the Right Questions: Aging and the Presidential Election."
The briefing expanded on points raised in a recent Opinion piece published on TheHill.com, "Is Joe Biden a SuperAger? Are we asking all the wrong questions", which was co-authored by former AFAR board member S. Jay Olshansky, PhD - Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a research associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Olshansky was joined by his co-authors Ben Barnes, formerly Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1965 to 1969 and the 36th lieutenant governor of Texas, 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.
AFAR Senior Scientific Director Steven N. Austad, PhD, moderated.
Download a transcript here.
