Dr. Sandra Reynolds is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director for Academic Affairs for the School of Aging Studies in the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1996 with a doctoral degree in gerontology. Her primary research interests include trends in health, trends in work disability, and obesity and active life expectancy. She has published numerous articles in these areas, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journals of Gerontology Series B: Social Sciences, the Journal of Aging & Health, and the Archives of Public Health, a European journal. She is a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America, a Fellow in the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and is on the Steering Committee for REVES, an international network of researchers in health expectancy.