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Insecure renting ages you faster than owning a home, unemployment or obesity. Better housing policy can change this

By Meena Kumari and Amy Clair

While chronological ageing happens at the same speed for everyone, biological ageing varies greatly. It depends on the lives we lead and the risks we’re exposed to. Biological age reflects the gradually accumulating damage to cells and tissues in the body.

Difficult childhood experiences could make us age prematurely

By Meena Kumari

In a new blog for the Conversation, Professor Meena Kumari and Research Associate Amanda Hughes investigate how socioeconomic disadvantage and other environmental factors can affect our biology and life expectancy.

Society and health are intricately related

By Michaela Benzeval and Meena Kumari

Professor Michaela Benzeval and Professor Meena Kumari on new data to predict the health needs of the future