
Kenneth M Langa
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BIO
Dr. Langa is the Cyrus Sturgis Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Institute for Social Research, a Research Scientist in the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research, and an Associate Director of the Institute of Gerontology, all at the University of Michigan. He is also Associate Director of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and Principal Investigator of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Project, both funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Dr. Langa received an MD and PhD in Public Policy at the University of Chicago as a Fellow in the Pew Program for Medicine, Arts, and the Social Sciences. He is a General Internist with an active clinical practice treating adult patients, an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Dr. Langa’s research focuses on the epidemiology and costs of chronic disease in older adults, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles on these topics and is currently studying population trends in dementia prevalence, and the relationship of common cardiovascular risk factors, as well as acute illnesses such as sepsis and stroke, to cognitive decline and dementia. In 2007 and 2015, Dr. Langa was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, and in 2015 he was also a Visiting Professor at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and the University of California-San Francisco, where he continued work on cross-national comparisons of the epidemiology and outcomes of dementia in the United States, England, and other countries around the world.
- Roshanak Mehdipanah, Emily M. Briceño, Madelyn Malvitz, Wen Chang, Lisa Lewandowski-Romps, Steven G Heeringa, Deborah Levine, Darin B. Zahuranec,, Kenneth M Langa, Xavier F. Gonzales,, Nelda Garcia, Lewis B. Morgenstern. 2025. Exploring Pathways to Caregiver Health: The Roles of Caregiver Burden, Familism, and Ethnicity. Journal of Aging and Health 37(3-4):148-155.
- Yu, Xuexin, Laura Beth Zahodne, Gross, Alden L, Belinda Needham, Kenneth M Langa, Cho, Tsai-Chin, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2025. Could differential under-reporting of loneliness between men and women bias the gender-specific association between loneliness duration and rate of memory decline? A probabilistic bias analysis of effect modification. American Journal of Epidemiology 194(3):811-819.
- Renuka Tipirneni, Eric T. Roberts, Helen G Levy, Andrei R. Stefanescu, Kenneth M Langa, Kara Zivin, Donovan T. Maust, John Z. Ayanian. 2025. Health Care Utilization and Costs for Older Adults Aging Into Medicare After the Affordable Care Act. JAMA Health Forum 6(1):e245025-e245025.
- Lily Stalter, Manasa Venkatesh, Josephine Jacobs, Amanda Stype, Kenneth M Langa, Amy L. Byers, Mary F. Wyman. 2025. Data Resource Profile: The Veterans Affairs-Health and Retirement Study Aging Veteran Cohort. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Martins-Caulfield, Josh, Mehdipanah, Roshanak, Emily Briceno, Chang, Wen, Steven G Heeringa, Gonzales, Xavier F., Levine, Deborah A., Kenneth M Langa, Zahuranec, Darin B., Garcia, Nelda, Morgenstern, Lewis B.. 2025. Dementia Diagnosis Unawareness and Caregiver Burden in a Multi-ethnic Cohort. Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Tipirneni, Renuka, Karmakar, Monita, Ayanian, John Z., Kara Zivin, Donovan Maust, Kenneth M Langa. 2025. Predictors and Consequences of Poor Health Trajectories Among US Adults Ages 50-64: A Latent Class Growth Analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Cho, Tsai-Chin, Yu, Xuexin, Adar, Sara D., Hwajung Choi, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2025. Changes in marital and health status as risk factors for a subsequent negative wealth shock: A population-based longitudinal study in the United States, 1995-2020. Social Science & Medicine 371:117905.
- Xu, Lantian, Li, Chihua, Aiello, Allison E., Kenneth M Langa, Dowd, Jennifer B., Stebbins, Rebecca C., Helen Carmon Spink Meier, Jiang, Ziman, Grace Noppert, Li, Gen. 2025. Compositional analysis of lymphocytes and their relationship with health outcomes: findings from the health and retirement study. Immunity & Ageing 22(1):1-15.
- David Flood, Yuan S Zhang, Emma Nichols, Chihua Li, Paola Zaninotto, Kenneth M Langa, Jinkook Lee, Jennifer Manne-Goehler. 2025. Diabetes and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults in China, England, Mexico, rural South Africa, and the USA: a population-based study of longitudinal aging cohorts. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care 13(2)
- Cohen-Mekelburg, Shirley, Jordan, Ariel, Kenney, Brooke, Burgess, Helen J., Chang, Joy W., Hu, Hsou Mei, Tapper, Elliot, Kenneth M Langa, Levine, Deborah A., Waljee, Akbar K.. 2024. Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms are High Among Older Adults with Digestive Disease and associated with Lower Perceived Health. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 22(3):621-629.e2.