Shiro Horiuchi Associate Professor	Office:  BC708W Email: shoriuch@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212 481-8896 Fax: 212 481-5260

Professional Interests:
Health demography (with focus on longevity and aging); quantitative methods and mathematical models in health sciences and social sciences. Previous scientific accomplishments (in collaboration with several other researchers) include: development of the life table aging rate analysis and the log-convexity hypothesis about the age pattern of human mortality risk on the individual level; discovery of the general equation of population age structure and development of demographic methods based on the equation; development of the line-integral model of decomposition analysis. Currently conducting research on: changes in the age pattern of mortality decline; decomposition of dispersion measures; methodology for analyzing patterns and trends in the modal age of adult deaths. Member of the Human Mortality Database (www.mortality.org) Project

Primary Teaching Areas:
Biostatistics and quantitative methods (at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels); longevity and aging; mortality and morbidity.

Selected Publications:
1.  Glei D, Horiuchi S. The narrowing sex gap in life expectancy: Effects of sex differences in the age pattern of mortality. Population Studies, 2007; 61(2):141-159.
2.  Horiuchi S. Causes of death among the oldest-old: Distributions and age variations. In: Robine JM, Crimmins E, Horiuchi S, Zeng Y, eds., Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population.  Springer, pp.215-235, 2006.
3.  Horiuchi S. Tempo effect on age-specific death rates. Demographic Research, 2005; 13(8):189-200.
4.  Horiuchi S, Finch C, Meslé F, and Vallin J. Differential patterns of age-related mortality increase in middle age and old age.  Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, 2003; 58A(6):495-507.
5.  Horiuchi S. Interspecies comparison of life span distribution: Humans versus invertebrates. In: Carey J, Tuljapurkar S, eds., Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological and Demographic Perspectives, (Population and Development Review, Special Supplement to Volume 29), pp. 127-151, 2003.

Education:
BA, Keio University, 1970
MA, Keio University, 1972
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1981