Emma Aguila is an Associate Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public of Policy. She was previously a Senior Economist and Director of the RAND Center for Latin American Social Policy (CLASP). She completed her master’s and Ph.D. in Economics at University College London in the UK. Dr. Aguila has received several awards for her work on social security systems including the Inter-American Award for Research in Social Security, the RAND Gold Merit Award, and the High Impact Research Award from USC Price School. She has publications at Demography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Social Science & Medicine, among others. Dr. Aguila has experience conducting field experiments and longitudinal surveys in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Her research focuses on the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, and how social insurance programs affect health and wellbeing of vulnerable middle-aged and older adults.