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Dr. Richard Suzman is the director of the Behavioral and Social Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health. He guides a research portfolio covering a broad range of behavioral and social science at the individual and societal level, focusing on change during adulthood, interrelationships between older people and institutions, and the societal impact of an aging population. He has played a major role in developing fields such as the demography and economics of aging. He has also been instrumental in encouraging the development of interdisciplinary fields such as biodemography, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, behavior genetics, and social neuroscience. Dr. Suzman has also developed the research infrastructure for these fields including a set of longitudinal national surveys on aging. He played a major role in initiating and building the Health and Retirement Study and a rapidly growing set of coordinated studies worldwide.