Dr. Karvonen-Gutierrez is an epidemiologist with a scholarly niche focused on the impact of reproductive aging, chronological aging and obesity on age-related health outcomes including physical functioning, frailty, osteoarthritis, disability and cardiometabolic dysfunction and she leads several NIH-funded prospective studies on these topics. She is the Director of the Center for Midlife Science at the University of Michigan, which includes faculty, staff and students with expertise in data collection, data management, data analysis, and research dissemination in the conduct of longitudinal cohort studies.
- Ph.D., Public Health, University of Michigan
- M.P.H., Reproductive/Women’s Health, University of Michigan
- B.A., University of Northern Iowa
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