IOA Staff
Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Aging and Diversity
Director, Center for
Aging and Diversity
Dr. Peggye Dilworth-Anderson joined the University of North Carolina's faculty as Professor of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health, and as the Associate Director of Aging and Diversity in the Institute on Aging at Chapel Hill. On July 1, 2003, she was appointed Director of the Institute's Center for Aging and Diversity. 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.
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.
