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Section Editors

PLOS Aging and Health Section Editors are experts in the fields of research they serve, experienced in the peer review process, ambassadors for Open Science, and active participants in their communities. Section Editors lead the subject sections within the journal scope and advise a group of Academic Editors with expertise in their discipline.

Megan Armstrong

 orcid.org/0000-0001-6773-9393
University College London
United Kingdom
Section: Social, Economic & Environmental Determinants of Health

Joan Costa-Font

 orcid.org/0000-0001-7174-7919
London School of Economics
United Kingdom
Section: Social, Economic & Environmental Determinants of Health

Sean Curran

 orcid.org/0000-0001-7791-6453​ 
University of Southern California
USA
Section: Biological Mechanisms of Aging

Joris Deelen

orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-3701​ 
Leiden University Medical Center
Netherlands
Section: Biological Mechanisms of Aging

Michal Engelman


University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA
Section: Population Demographics & Dynamics

Yuan Fang


Old Dominion University
USA
Section: Population Demographics & Dynamics

Nancy Glynn

orcid.org/0000-0003-2265-0162
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
USA
Section: Functional Health and well-being

Alden Gross

 orcid.org/0000-0002-4678-0562
Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health
USA
Section: Neurological Health & Cognition

Hans-Peter Kohler


University of Pennsylvania
USA
Section: Population Demographics & Dynamics

Mark Tomas McAuley


University of Salford
United Kingdom
Section: Lifespan Development & Life Course

Angela Perone


UC Berkeley
USA
Section: Policy and Governance

Svetlana Puzhko

Bielefeld University
Germany
Section: Disease & Health Conditions 

Adam Spira


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
USA
Section: Neurological Health & Cognition

Nikkil Sudharsana

 orcid.org/0000-0003-1710-4634
Technical University of Munich
Germany
Section: Healthcare Systems and Services

Leonardo Trasande


NYU Grossman School of Medicine
USA
Section: Lifespan Development and Life Course

Anna Urbaniak

 orcid.org/0000-0002-9183-2042
Jagiellonian University
Poland
Section: Policy & Governance

Edison I.O. Vidal

 orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-4678
Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho Faculdade de Medicina Campus de Botucatu
Brazil
Section: Clinical Practice and Medical Care