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SPEAKER:	Rebeca Wong, Associate Research Scientist, Maryland Population Research Center, Faculty Associate Dept of Sociology University of Maryland and Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Dept of Population and Family Health Sciences
TITLE:	Long Term Consequences of Mexico-U.S. Migration: Old-Age Wellbeing
DATE:	Friday, November 1, 2002
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	1101 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
Rebeca Wong is Associate Research Scientist at the Maryland Population Research Center, faculty associate of the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland and Adjunct Professor of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences. Dr. Wong's research agenda focuses on the economic consequences of population aging, particularly in Mexico and among immigrant Hispanics in the U.S. She has completed recent work on poverty and utilization of health services among the elderly, international migration and later old age wellbeing, and the impact of the social security reform in Mexico. She is currently co-Principal Investigator in the Mexican Health and Aging Study, funded by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. The study seeks to locate research on Mexico's unique health dynamics in a broad socioeconomic context, and it includes a national longitudinal survey of multiple purposes among population of middle and old age.

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/fall2002.shtml