Maria Victoria Zunzunegui obtained an MSc in Biostatistics (1977) and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology (1986) from the University of California at Berkeley. Currently, she is Honorary Professor at the École de Santé Publique, Université de Montréal, where she was a full professor until 2017. Her main field of research has been aging epidemiology. She has published on aging, gender, social epidemiology, and global health, and she has conducted several longitudinal studies on aging. In 2017, she received the Emeritus Researcher Award from the Quebec Population Health Research Network.