Introduction
Kent is currently a PhD Social Science student at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is a holder of a Master of Arts in Economics degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is interested in population health, health and aging, and intergenerational relations in the US and Asia - particularly the Philippines where I hail from, Japan, India, China, and S. Korea. Prior to enrolling in Syracuse, Kent worked as a health policy researcher at the premier health sciences center in the Philippines, the University of the Philippines Manila. Some of his notable involvements in Philippine health research include the cost-effectiveness of dengue vaccination, cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination, modelling of flu mortality, drug procurement policy, and smoking behavior. He has worked with the following datasets: US Health and Retirement Study, US Longitudinal Study of Generations, Philippine Global Adult Tobacco Survey, Osaka University's Preference Parameters Study, US National Study on Drug Use and Health. His recent works appear in peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Rural Health, PLOS One, Preventive Medicine, and World Medical and Health Policy and he also contributes to the Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series of Syracuse University.