Carroll L. Estes, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is the founding and first Director of the Institute for Health & Aging (1979-1998) and the former chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (1981-1992), School of Nursing, UCSF.
Dr. Estes is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She is currently President of National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and past President of three national organizations in aging: The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the American Society on Aging (ASA), and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE).
She was national vice-president of the Older Women’s League (OWL). She has served as consultant to US Commissioners of Social Security and to US Senate and House Committees on Aging, as well as a member of multiple federal commissions and advisory boards and private foundations.
A prolific writer, she has authored and co-authored 8 books and more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters. Dr. Estes has co-edited 14 books, including The Nation’s Health (with Philip R. Lee) and Health Policy (with Charlene Harrington). She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego, her MA from Southern Methodist University and BA from Stanford University.
