06/11/2026
PAA 2026: At this year's Population Association of America 2026 Annual Meeting, HPA faculty member Zhuoer Lin and PhD student Mingyang Zhang presented their research titled "Timing and Duration of Smoking Cessation Across the Life Course and Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia".
Dr. Lin's research focuses on understanding the life course social determinants of (cognitive) aging and how public policy can address racial, ethnic, sociodemographic, and geographic disparities in (cognitive) health and healthcare.
Mingyang's research focuses on health economics, including cognitive aging, health policy, and population health.