LBJ School News Brief

Angel promoted
to full professor

LBJ School Associate Professor Jacqueline Angel has been promoted to full professor, effective September 1. Angel, who joined the LBJ School faculty in 1994, specializes in policy development with respect to health care and the politics of aging, disability and long-term care. One of the nation’s foremost researchers in the area of Hispanic aging and elderly Mexican Americans, she is particularly interested in how cultural heterogeneity among the elderly affects the design of programs for the cost-effective delivery of health services and for the provision of long-term care.

Angel, who has a Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers University, is the author of numerous articles and chapters on social policy issues related to health and aging as well as three books, Health and Living Arrangements of the Elderly (Garland Publishing, 1991); Painful Inheritance: Health and the New Generation of Fatherless Families (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993); and Who Will Care for Us? Aging and Long-term Care in Multicultural America (New York University Press, 1997).

Angel currently serves on the National Institutes of Health’s Behavior and Social Science of Aging Review Committee, part of the National Institute on Aging. She has served on several state government health and human services committees and is a member of the President’s Council of the Board of Family Eldercare, Inc., a Central Texas nonprofit organization that serves older adults, people with disabilities, and their caregivers. At the LBJ School she is a member of the executive committee of the Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP).

This fall, Angel is co-organizing an international conference called, “The Second Conference on Aging in the Americas: Key Issues in Hispanic Health and Health Care Policy Research," to be held at the LBJ School on September 21-22.