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Nancy Morrow-Howell, MSW, Ph.D., is the Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She also directs the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging that promotes research, education and community engagement on aging-related issues across all academic disciplines at the University. Her scholarship focuses on productive engagement in later life, specifically program and policies to optimally engage older adults in paid and unpaid work, including working, volunteering, and caregiving. 

Dr. Morrow-Howell has her MSW from the University of Kansas and her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. She is past president and fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. She is a master trainer and a member of the national advisory committee for its Reframing Aging initiative, and is a member of the Age-Inclusive University Workgroup. She received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work and Research as well as the Distinguished Faculty Award at Washington University. She was awarded the Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Contributions to Health Aging from the Gerontological Society of America in 2022.

Guido Giarelli, has earned a Ph.D. from University College London, and is a Full professor of Sociology at the University ‘Magna Græcia’ of Catanzaro (Italy). He is the Coordinator of the board of the Section of “Sociology of Health and Illness” of the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS), the Coordinator of the Research Network on Sociology of Health and Medicine of the European Sociological Association (ESA), and Director of C.R.I.S.A Inter-University Research Center on Active and Healthy Ageing.