MADRID 2019 The Future of AGEING

David Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), Director of Harvard University’s NIH/NIA-funded Program on the Global Demography of Aging, and Faculty Director of HSPH’s Value of Vaccination Research Network.

Bloom received a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1976, an M.A. in Economics from Princeton University in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Economics and Demography from Princeton University in 1981.

Bloom has previously served on the faculty of the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Carnegie-Mellon University, the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and the Department of Economics at Columbia University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America and the Board of Directors of JSI, R&T.

Bloom's current research focuses heavily on the interplay of health, demographics, and economic growth and development, and also on the value of vaccination and health technology assessment. Bloom has published extensively and is a founding co-editor of the Journal of the Economics of Ageing. In April 2005, Bloom was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2015 he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.