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Emma Xiaolu Zang is an Associate Professor of Sociology (tenured) at Yale University with secondary appointments in Biostatistics and Global Affairs. She directs the Computational Aging, Family, and Evidence Lab (Z-CAFE) and founded Yale's Population Studies Speaker Series. A non-resident fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis, her research focuses on health disparities, family demography, and inequality through micro-meso-macro level analysis.
- Ph.D. in Public Policy, Duke University (2019)
- MA in Economics, Duke University (2017)
- MPhil in Social Science, HKUST (2014)
Her research combines life-course approaches with Bayesian statistical methods to analyze health disparities, family dynamics, and policy impacts. Key areas include:
- Household inequality mechanisms
- Family policy effects on gender equality
- Early-life family impacts on aging
- Multi-state life table modeling
- Bayesian data integration
- Age-Period-Cohort methodological critiques
Recent publications span Nature Human Behaviour, Demography, and JAMA Internal Medicine, focusing on:
- Environmental health disparities
- Gender inequality in work-family dynamics
- Multi-state aging models
- Racial disparities in critical care
- Geospatial mortality patterns
- Caregiving burden analysis
Scientific awards include:
- National Institute on Aging Scholarships
- Chinese Government Outstanding Student Award
- International Sociological Association Recognition
- Erasmus Mundus Fellowship
Her work has been funded by NIH, Alzheimer’s Association, and NICHD, with media coverage in New York Times Magazine, Reuters, and ThePaper.cn.
