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Center for Global Health EquityThe Center for Global Health Equity published Population Health and Aging in Rapidly Changing Contexts, a profile of Amy Pienta.

Dr. Amy Pienta’s global work focuses on the demography of aging and retirement and health in later life, including a large research project that focuses on building data infrastructure to study populations of people living with HIV throughout the world. Pienta’s primary research interests are retirement and health in later life. She has studied women’s retirement behavior, labor force exits of African-American and white men, the joint retirement behavior of married couples, and the relationship between various social statuses and health.