Stanford University Longevity Course
Foundations on Longevity
The online virtual course begins with a simple fact. Life expectancy doubled within a single century, not across many.
Forty of the world's leading minds on longevity sat down for this course. Scientists, physicians, researchers, economists, and entrepreneurs, each in real dialogue with Dr. Laura Carstensen.
Every conversation was captured so that each student experiences these teachings firsthand, not as summaries or secondhand notes, but as the exchanges themselves.
Across ten modules, these forty voices explore that one remarkable fact and everything that follows from it, as the world is only beginning to understand what it makes possible. Written for the curious reader rather than the specialist, the course reaches Attilio clients first at the end of October.
Laura Carstensen, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
The ten modules.
- 01
How We Got Here
The economists and physicians who first measured the longevity revolution explain how a single century changed everything.
Laura Carstensen, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
John (Jack) Rowe, M.D.
Julius B. Richmond Professor of Health Policy and Aging, Columbia University
Andrew Scott CBE
Professor of Economics, London Business School
John Beard, MBBS, Ph.D.
Director, International Longevity Center USA, Columbia University
- 02
Biology of Aging
Two of the field's leading biologists open up the body to show what aging actually is, and how much of it can be influenced.
Thomas Rando, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center
Eric Verdin, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Buck Institute
- 03
How to Stay Healthy for a Century
The clinicians and scientists behind daily practice reveal how food, movement, and habit decide the quality of thirty added years.
Paul A. Pagnato
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Attilio
Anne L. Friedlander
Adjunct Professor, Program in Human Biology
Michael Snyder, Ph.D.
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics
Mike Stone, M.D.
Founder, Pillars Health
Michele Miller, R.N., NBC-HWC
Director of Attilio Health, Attilio
- 04
Your Brain and Mind
Four researchers trace the mind from a single cell to a full lifetime, and show how expectation itself can shape performance.
Kang Shen, Ph.D.
Vincent V.C. Woo Director, Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University
Dr. Ulman Lindenberger
Director, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Mara Mather, Ph.D.
Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Claude Steele, Ph.D.
Lucie Stern Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University
- 05
Your Social World
Three scientists, including the director of the longest study of adult life, explain why relationships predict health more reliably than almost anything else.
Alison Gopnik, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Steve Cole, Ph.D.
Professor, UCLA School of Medicine
Robert Waldinger, M.D.
Director, Harvard Study of Adult Development
- 06
Education
Historians, founders, and teachers reimagine how people learn in a world where learning never truly stops.
Mitchell Stevens, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
MacKenzie Price
Co-founder, Alpha School
Amy Richardson
Longtime kindergarten teachers.
Yvonne Stanbury
Longtime kindergarten teachers.
Abby Falik
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Flight School
Manu Sharma
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Labelbox
- 07
Work
Three economists examine what work gives beyond a paycheck, and what happens to wages and community as the nature of work changes.
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ph.D.
Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Lukas Althoff
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University
Nicholas Bloom, Ph.D.
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University
- 08
Financial Security
Leading economists and Strategic Partners rethink a savings model that was never built for a life this long.
John Shoven, Ph.D.
Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University
Haleh Nazeri
Longevity Economy, World Economic Forum
Russ Hill, CFP, AIFA
Executive Chairman, Halbert Hargrove
Annamaria Lusardi
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
- 09
How Emotions Guide Your Life
Five longtime friends and colleagues, each an expert in emotional development, sit down together to explore how feeling shapes a life.
Ian Gotlib, Ph.D.
Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor, Stanford University
Laura Carstensen, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
Jamil Zaki, Ph.D.
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory
Susan Charles, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
Hal Hershfield, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making, UCLA Anderson School of Management
- 10
The World You Live In
Environmental scientists and community builders widen the lens, then close the course with the ten principles of The New Map of Life.
Paul A. Pagnato
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Attilio
Gretchen Daily, Ph.D.
Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University
Ian Gotlib, Ph.D.
Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor, Stanford University
Nathan Price
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Human Healthspan at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Laura Carstensen, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
Rob Jackson
Environmental scientist, on methane exposure
Derenda Schubert, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Bridge Meadows
Begin the conversation.
The course reaches Attilio clients first when it is ready at the end of October.