BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 

NAME

Shiro Horiuchi

POSITION TITLE

Professor

 

EDUCATION/TRAINING  (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

(if applicable)

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

Keio University, Tokyo

BA

1970

Sociology

Keio University, Tokyo

MA

1972

Sociology

Johns Hopkins University

PhD

1981

Sociology (with emphasis on mathematical demography)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A.      Professional Experience

 

Employment

 

1972-1975       Consultant Market Researcher, Tokyo

1973-1975       Lecturer, Program in Marketing, Japan Productivity Center, Tokyo

1974-1975       Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Keio University, Tokyo

1979-1981       Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1981-1990       Population Affairs Officer, Population Division, United Nations, New York, NY

                        (Population Trends and Structure Section, 1981-1983; Estimates and Projections Section, 1983-1990.)

1991-2007      Assistant Professor (1991-1996), Associate Professor (1996-2002), Research Associate

                        Professor (2002-2007), Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University, New York, NY

2007-               Professor, Program in Urban Public Health, Hunter College, the City University of New York;

                        and Faculty Affiliate, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, New York, NY.

 

 

Selected Professional Services

 

1985-1989       Member, Committee on Comparative Mortality Patterns, International Union for the Scientific

                             Study of Population (IUSSP)

1999-2004       Member, Committee on Longevity and Health, IUSSP

1999-2003       Regular member, Initial Review Group, “Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology and Methods

                        Study Section 3” (SNEM-3), Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health

 

 

Honors

 

1973-1975       Fellow, Koizumi Memorial Fund

1976-1979       Hopkins Graduate Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University

1993-1998       Special Emphasis Research Career Award, National Institutes of Health

1998-2003       Independent Scientist Award, National Institutes of Health

 

 

B.     Publications

 

Books (including special issues of professional journals)

 

2006            Jean-Marie Robine, Eileen Crimmins, Shiro Horiuchi, and Yi Zeng, eds. Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population. Springer.

2005            Shiro Horiuchi and Jean-Marie Robine, eds. Increasing Longevity: Causes, Trends, and Prospects. Special Issue of Genus, 61(1).

 

Research and Review Papers in English (excluding United Nations publications that do not show names of the authors):

 

2007            Shiro Horiuchi. Life table aging rate: a statistical microscope for mortality analysis. In: Thérèse Loch and France Meslé, eds. Population Dynamics, Human Health: Miscellany in Honor of Jaques Vallin. Paris: INED, in press.

2007            Dana Glei and Shiro Horiuchi. The narrowing sex gap in life expectancy: Effects of sex differences in the age pattern of mortality. Population Studies, 61(2):141-159.

2006            Shiro Horiuchi. Causes of death among the oldest-old: Distributions and age variations. In: Jean-Marie Robine, Eileen Crimmins, Shiro Horiuchi and Yi Zeng, eds., Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population.  Springer, pp.215-235.

2005            Shiro Horiuchi. Tempo effect on age-specific death rates. Demographic Research 13(8):189-200.

2005            Shiro Horiuchi and Jean-Marie Robine. Introduction. In: Shiro Horiuchi and Jean-Marie Robine, eds. Increasing Longevity: Causes, Trends, and Prospects. Special Issue of Genus, 61(1): 1-7.)

2003            Shiro Horiuchi, Caleb Finch, France Meslé, and Jacques Vallin. Differential patterns of age-related mortality increase in middle age and old age.  Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, 58A(6):495-507.

2003            Shiro Horiuchi.  Age patterns of mortality. In: P. Demeny and G. McNicoll eds., The Encyclopedia of Population. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Macmillan, pp. 649-654.

2003            Shiro Horiuchi.  Interspecies comparison of life span distribution: Humans versus invertebrates. In: J. Carey and S. Tuljapurkar eds., Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological and Demographic Perspectives, (Population and Development Review, Special Supplement to Volume 29), pp. 127-151.

2000            J. R. Wilmoth, L. J. Deegan, H. Lundström, and S. Horiuchi. Increase in maximum life span in Sweden, 1861-1999.  Science 289:2366-2368

2000            Shiro Horiuchi.  Greater lifetime expectations.  Nature 405:744-745.

1999            J.R. Wilmoth and S. Horiuchi.  Rectangularization revisited: Variability of age at death within human populations.  Demography 36(4):475-495.

1999            S. Horiuchi.  Epidemiological transitions in human history. In: Health and Mortality: Issues of Global Concern. New York: United Nations, pp. 54-71.

1999            John R. Wilmoth and Shiro Horiuchi. Do the oldest old grow old more slowly?  In: B. Forette, C. Franceschi, J.-M. Robine, and M. Allard, eds., The Paradoxes of Longevity. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp.35-60.

1998            S. Horiuchi and J.R. Wilmoth.  Deceleration in the age pattern of mortality at older ages. Demography 35(4):391-412.

1997            S. Horiuchi.  Postmenopausal acceleration of age-related mortality increase.  Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 52A: B78-B92.

1997            S. Horiuchi and J.R. Wilmoth.  Age patterns of the life-table aging rate for major causes of death in Japan, 1951-1990.  Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 52A: B67-B77.

1995            V. Kandiah and S. Horiuchi.  Recent trends and prospects in world population growth.  Population Bulletin of the United Nations 39:133-146.

1995            S. Horiuchi.  The cohort approach to population growth: a retrospective decomposition of growth rates for Sweden.  Population Studies 49:147-163.

1993            S. Horiuchi.  The world population growth rate: Why declines stalled in the 1980s.  Population Today 21(6):6-9.

1992            S. Horiuchi.  Global trends of age distribution, 1950-1990.  In: Changing Population Age Structures, 1990-2015. Geneva: United Nations Economic Commissions for Europe, pp.4-22.

1992            S. Horiuchi.  Stagnation in the decline of the world population growth rate during the 1980s.  Science 257:761-765.

1991            S. Horiuchi.  Assessing effects of mortality reduction on population aging.  Population Bulletin of the United Nations 31:38-51.

1991            S. Horiuchi.  Measurement and analysis of cohort size variations.  Population Bulletin of the United Nations 30:106-124.

1990            S. Horiuchi and A. J.  Coale. Age patterns of mortality for older women:  an analysis using age-specific rate of mortality change with age.  Mathematical Population Studies 2(4):245-267.

1989            S. Horiuchi.  Some methodological issues in the assessment of the deceleration of mortality decline.  In: Lado Ruzicka, Guillaume Wunch and Penny Kane eds., Differential Mortality:  Methodological Issues and Biosocial Factors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp.64-78.

1988            S. Horiuchi and S. Preston.  Age-specific growth rates: the legacy of past population dynamics.  Demography 25(3):429-441.

1984            N. Bennett and S. Horiuchi.  Mortality estimation from registered deaths in less developed countries.  Demography 21(2):217-233.

1983            S. Horiuchi.  The long-term impact of war on mortality:  old age mortality of the first world war survivors in the Federal Republic of Germany.  Population Bulletin of the United Nations 15:80-92.

1982            S. Horiuchi and A. J. Coale.  A simple equation for estimating the expectation of life at old ages.  Population Studies 36(2):317-326.

1981            N. Bennett and S. Horiuchi.  Estimating the completeness of death registration in a closed population.  Population Index 47(2):207-221. (Translated into Spanish, Notas de Poblation 35:11-33, 1984.)

1980            A. Cherlin and S. Horiuchi.  Retrospective reports of family structure:  a methodological assessment.  Sociological Methods and Research 8(4):454-469.

1979            S. Horiuchi.  Decomposition of the rise in divorce rates:  a note on Michael's results.  Demography 16(4):549-551.

1979            J. Fennessey and S. Horiuchi.  Assessing the accuracy of teachers' quantitative judgements. Simulation and Games 10(2):139-166.

 

United Nations Publications (that do not show names of the authors)

 

1992            Part one.  Age structure of population.  World Population Monitoring 1991. New York: United Nations.

1991            Part one.  Age structure.  Concise Report on the World Population Situation 1991: With a Special Emphasis on Age Structure. New York: United Nations.

1991            The Sex and Age Distributions of Population, the 1990 Revision. New York: United Nations.

1991            World Population Prospects, 1990. New York: United Nations.

1989            Global Estimates and Projections of Population by Sex and Age, 1988. New York: United Nations.

1989            Review of Recent National Demographic Target Setting. New York: United Nations.

1989            World Population Prospects, 1988. New York: United Nations.

1988            United Nations Secretariat. Global trends and prospects of aging population structures.  In: Economic and Social Implications of Population Aging. New York: United Nations.

1988            World Demographic Estimates and Projections, 1950-2025. New York: Un