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Arun Balachandran is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, working under Dr. Dan Belsky. He received his PhD in Demography from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, in 2020. Balachandran has a background in economics, holding a master's degree from the Madras School of Economics, India, and has completed pre-doctoral training at the Institute of Social and Economic Change, India. His doctoral research focused on developing new measures of population aging through comparisons between Europe and Asia, with particular emphasis on gender. Currently, he is involved in projects aimed at creating innovative biomarker approaches to assess population aging across various countries, utilizing longitudinal data. His research interests are interdisciplinary, intersecting demography, population aging, quantitative methodology, gender studies, health disparities, and social determinants of health. He has published works in various journals, including Ageing & Society and The Lancet, and has received the KB Pathak Memorial Award from the Indian Association for the Study of Population for his methodological innovations.
Columbia Aging Center • New York, NY
Developing new biomarker population-based measures of population aging using longitudinal data.
Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of Science (MS) options available. GRE is optional for Fall 2026.