Neil Mehta

Neil Mehta is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and serves as the Associate Dean for Research at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), School of Public Health. He has previously held faculty positions at Emory University and the University of Michigan. His research focuses on aging, mortality, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and immigrant health and wellbeing, bridging demography, sociology, and epidemiology.

Neil holds the following academic degrees:

• PhD in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
• MA in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
• MSc in Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2001
• BA in African American Studies, Oberlin College, 1997

Neil’s research explores the health and wellbeing of older adults, including U.S. life expectancy trends, obesity’s impacts on disability and mortality, socioeconomic disparities in mortality, and health patterns among immigrants in the U.S. and Europe. His work emphasizes interdisciplinary methods to address aging-related challenges and population health dynamics.

Neil has received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar award at the University of Michigan. He currently directs the NIA-funded TRENDS network on dementia and disability in older populations, sponsored by the University of Michigan.

In advising and grants, he leads the TRENDS network and has held prior faculty roles. No advisees or students are listed in the available information. He is affiliated with the Sealy Center on Aging, furthering research into aging populations.