Chi-Tsun Chiu is an Associate Research Fellow (with tenure) at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology with a Demography specialization at the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. Prior to his move back to Taiwan, he spent one year at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. His main fields of work are demography and gerontology in general, and aging and health and health expectancy in particular. His research focuses on using life table techniques and large survey data to gain insight into the social determinants of health and mortality for older people. He is particularly interested in conditions in the environments that people can do something about in order to improve health and longevity for a population. Current research involves living arrangements and health expectancy, sleep quality and cognitive life expectancy, education and health inequality, and racial/ethnic disparities in health.
 
He is currently responsible for maintaining and updating the SPACE (Stochastic Population Analysis for Complex Events) program. The SPACE program is a package of SAS programs to compute health expectancy via a multi-state life table (http://sites.utexas.edu/space/). The program files are publicly free online and can extend SAS’ ability to compute health expectancy and the distribution of multi-state life table functions. It accounts for complex survey design and allows users to choose the appropriate method. Simulation offers users a high degree of flexibility to summarize various aspects of the dynamics of population health changes.

Website: https://www.ea.sinica.edu.tw/people/Chi-Tsun-Chiu.aspx