IOA Staff
Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Ph.D.
Interim Co-Director
Director, Center for
Aging and Diversity
Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson is Interim Co-Director of the Institute. She is also Director of the Center for Aging and Diversity at the Institute, as well as Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is currently President-elect of the Gerontological Society of America, serves on the Board of Directors of the National Alzheimer’s Association, and is a member of the National Advisory Council for the National Institute on Aging. She serves on the editorial board of three research journals.
Her areas of expertise include, minority aging and health, family caregiving, health disparities, and long-term care. Her current research focuses on health disparities pertaining to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Her research and publications have included both theoretically and empirically-based topics on ethnic minority families, with emphasis on older African Americans. In addition to being cited in professional journals, Dr. Dilworth-Anderson's work has been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, and numerous local and regional newspapers. She has received funding to support her research from the National Institute on Aging, the Administration on Aging, the March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation, the National Alzheimer's Association and the GlaxoSmithKline Community Partnership Program.
She completed her undergraduate training in sociology from Tuskegee Institute in 1970. She earned both her master's and doctorate degrees in sociology from Northwestern University in 1972 and 1975, respectively. She also received training in family therapy (1983-85) from the Family Institute of Chicago, Institute of Psychiatry, Northwestern University. In 1989, she received additional training in family issues and Alzheimer's disease from the Harvard Geriatric Education Center.
Email: pdilworth@mail.schsr.unc.edu
