Becca R. Levy, PhD

Dr. Levy is Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Her research examines psychosocial factors influencing older adults’ cognitive and physical functioning and longevity. She is credited with pioneering a field on how culturally assimilated positive and negative age stereotypes can respectively benefit or harm older individuals’ health, using longitudinal, experimental and cross-cultural methods.

She has received numerous honors, including the Brookdale National Fellowship for Leadership in Aging, the Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association, the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America and the quadrennial Ewald W. Busse Research Award from the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. She has also served in multiple editorial roles, including associate editor of the Handbook of Psychology of Aging and on several leading journal boards.