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Professor of Sociology and Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Mark D. Hayward, Ph.D. is a professor of sociology and Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hayward is a health demographer. Building on a long-standing interest in the developmental origins of adult health, his current work incorporates biosocial lenses (e.g., pathophysiological pathways and genetic risk) to better understand how social exposures from childhood through adulthood influence educational and racial/ethnic disparities in dementia risk. Other recent work investigates the “upstream institutional levers” that contribute to educational disparities in U.S. adult health and mortality. Dr. Hayward is a recipient of the Matilda White Riley Award from the National Institutes of Health for his contributions to behavioral and social scientific knowledge relevant to mission of NIH. He has served on numerous scientific advisory boards for major foundations (the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts), the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and federal agencies (e.g., the National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Health Statistics). Dr. Hayward recently served as editor of his field’s major journal, Demography and as president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University and his B.A. from Washington State University.
