Dr Jaqueline Avila

Assistant Professor in the Department of Gerontology

University of Massachusetts Boston

Biography

Dr. Jaqueline Avila has a PhD in Population Health Sciences and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her work focuses on social determinants of health outcomes among older adults who smoke in the U.S. and Latin America. The main disciplines in her research are tobacco control, population aging and social epidemiology.