William Vega, provost professor and executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work, has been recognized with two honors for his decades-long career as one of the nation’s leading experts on health disparities affecting aging ethnic minority populations.
Vega, who also holds joint appointments at USC in preventive medicine, psychiatry and family medicine, has been appointed as a member of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Behavioral and Social Sciences Section Program Committee. The committee works to organize and oversee the scientific and professional program for the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting, the premier gathering of gerontologists from the United States and around the world. GSA is the nation’s oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization dedicated to research, education and practice in the field of aging.
For a distinguished research career that has contributed to improved health outcomes for Latinos, Vega was selected as the conference honoree for the 19th annual Latino Behavioral Health Institute (LBHI).