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Inaugural Matilda White Riley Honors: 2006
Distinguished Lecturer: David Mechanic, Ph.D.
Renè Dubos University Professor, Emeritus
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Presentation: Delivery of Health Care Trends
2nd Matilda White Riley Honors: 2007
Distinguished Lecturers:
Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D.
Hilldale Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Burton H. Singer, Ph.D.
Charles and Marie Robertson, Professor of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University
Co-Presentation: Integrative Health: A Pathway Approach
3rd Matilda White Riley Honors: 2008
Distinguished Lecturer: John B. McKinlay, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director
New England Research Institutes, Inc.
Presentation: Looking for Causes in All the Wrong Places: Upstream Social Determinants of Downstream Health Disparities
4th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2010
Distinguished Lecturer: Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D.
Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and Professor of Psychology
Stanford University
Presentation: Cultural Characteristics: Longevity, Quality of Life, Social Change, and Social Support
5th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2011
Distinguished Lecturer: John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D.
Tiffany & Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor
The University of Chicago
Presentation: Social Isolation and Health
6th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2012
Distinguished Lecturer: Linda J. Waite, Ph.D.
Lucy Flower Professor in Urban Sociology
The University of Chicago
Presentation: Social Connections and Health
7th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2014
Distinguished Lecturer: Samuel Preston, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
Presentation: Smoking, Obesity, and American Longevity
8th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2015
Distinguished Lecturers: Kevin Volpp, M.D., Ph.D.
Founders President’s Distinguished Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy University of Pennsylvania
Presentation: Behavioral Economics and Health Delivery
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child and Parent Development and Education Columbia University
Presentation: Childhood Well-being and Disparities
9th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2016
Distinguished Lecturer: Caryn Lerman Ph.D.
John H. Glick, M.D. Professor In Cancer Research, Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Presentation: Bridging Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Research to Advance the Treatment of Tobacco Dependence
2016 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
10th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2017
Distinguished Lecturer: Mark Hayward, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Austin
Presentation: Reimagining the Dynamic Association between Education and U.S. Adult Mortality in a Fast Changing Policy Environment
2017 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
11th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2018
Distinguished Lecturer: Terrie E. Moffitt, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke University
Presentation: A Good Childhood Is a Smart Investment
2018 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
12th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2019
Distinguished Lecturer: Mark J. VanLandingham, Ph.D.
Thomas C. Keller Professor
Director, Center for Studies of Displaced Populations
Tulane University
Presentation: Culture and Resilience: Insights from the Vietnamese American community in post-Katrina New Orleans
2019 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
13th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2020
Distinguished Lecturer: Toni C. Antonucci, Ph.D.
Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology
Program Director and Research Professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Presentation: Social Relations and Structural Lag: A Brave New Age
2020 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
14th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2021
Distinguished Lecturer: Anne Case, Ph.D.
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus
Princeton University
Presentation: Death by Degree: U.S. Mortality in the 21st Century
2021 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
15th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2022
Distinguished Lecturer: David R. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Florence & Laura Norman Professor of Public Health
Chair, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Harvard Chan School of Public Health Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Presentation: The Virus of Racism: Understanding its Threats, Mobilizing Defenses
2022 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
16th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2023
Distinguished Lecturer: Jennifer J. Manly, Ph.D.
Professor, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease & the Aging Brain,
Department of Neurology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Presentation: Lifecourse Social and Structural Mechanisms of Inequalities in Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
2023 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
17th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2024
Distinguished Lecturer: Bernice Pescosolido, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Sociology
Founding Director, Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research
Founding Director, Irsay Institute for Sociomedical Sciences
Indiana University Bloomington
Presentation: The Power of Human Connections in Health and Health Care
2024 Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees
18th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2025
Distinguished Lecturer: Robert Hummer, Ph.D.
Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presentation: The Life Course, Aging, and Health Disparities: Preliminary Insights from Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health