Ageing Well Public Talks Series 2024-2025 Talk 10 - Queer(ing) Ageing: Enabling Sexual and Gender Diversity in Later Life

Talk 10. 11th June 2025 – Queer(ing) Ageing: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Later Life 12- 1:30PM.

How do sexual and gender diversity shape the life course? How do people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities age authentically? What are the obligations of an ageing society to sexual and gender minorities? In this talk, Jonathan will examine these questions, helping to increase understanding of how queer theory and critical gerontology can work in tandem to shape everyone’s understanding of ageing and healthy longevity.

Dr Jonathan E. Cohen - JD MPhil (he/him/his) is a Clinical Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California, where he is also the Director of Policy Engagement for the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. In 2022-2023, he was Health and Ageing Policy Fellow and American Political Science Congressional Fellow, serving in the office of U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (DMD). An internationally recognised expert in health and human rights, Cohen designs and leads policy interventions that equip health leaders and systems to reach socially excluded groups and promote human rights accountability. He teaches Global Health, Law, and Human Rights and is an emerging leader in the field of global population ageing, including conducting research on healthy longevity in sexual and gender minorities.