Yi Zeng, PhD, a professor in the division of Geriatrics, has been selected and recognized as one of the “Healthy Ageing 50” by the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing. This award recognizes fifty leaders working to transform the world to be a better place to grow older.
Zeng launched and leads the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), the world’s largest survey on centenarians, nonagenarians, and octogenarians with a comparative group of younger elderly, and also one of the world’s largest surveys concerning health and aging. To date, CLHLS has conducted face-to-face interviews with 138,800 participants in nine waves from 1998-2021 and has generated a large amount of seminal research on healthy aging. The data is now one of the most used free sources for scholars worldwide to conduct healthy aging studies.
The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing is a global collaboration that brings together diverse sectors and stakeholders including governments, civil society, international organizations, professionals, academic institutions, the media, and the private sector to improve the lives of older people, their families, and communities.
“The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing offers us an unprecedented opportunity to put in place the right policies and services, so that more people experience later life in good health and can continue to do the things they value,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization.