Dr. Joseph Lariscy is a social demographer and health sociologist with broad interests in racial/ethnic health disparities and quantitative methods for population research. His primary research contributions examine racial/ethnic disparities in U.S. adult mortality risk and the early-life processes, particularly educational attainment and health behaviors, that shape later-life health disparities. HIs research has also improved understanding of the linkage between tobacco use and all-cause and cause-specific adult mortality in the United States. Dr. Lariscy received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013, where he was a Graduate Trainee at the Population Research Center. He received further training as an NIA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Duke Population Research Institute at Duke University. Most recently, Dr. Lariscy was Associate Professor at University of Memphis. Dr. Lariscy's research has been published in Demography, Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Science and Medicine.