Dr. Fred C. Pampel is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Research Professor and Fellow in the Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder. He has served as the director of the University of Colorado Population Center and as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Colorado Boulder. His expertise includes demography, health, inequality, research methods, and statistical analysis. He is the author of 19 books and over 80 peer-reviewed research articles in professional journals. His research on cross-national patterns of population aging, cohort change, and smoking has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. In the area of evaluation research, he has served as the methodologist in randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental designs that have evaluated programs to improve the literacy of minority preschoolers, provide short-term counseling for government workers, reduce the recidivism of offenders on probation, and reduce violence in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
His new book, The Struggle for Public Health: Seven People Who Saved the Lives of Millions and Transformed the Way We Live (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), targets a popular as well as a scholarly audience.