Mario Garrett

Mario Dominic Garrett, Ph.D., is a professor of gerontology at San Diego State University, California, USA. Professor Garrett obtained his BSc with a First-Class Honors/summa cum laude from the University of East London and his PhD from the University of Bath. As the team leader of a United Nations Population Fund project, he coordinated a five-year project looking at the support system for older adults in the People’s Republic of China. While with the United Nations Institute on Ageing, Garrett founded the international aging magazine “International Journal on Ageing in Developing Countries.” Later, with the Minority Aging Research Institute at the University of North Texas, Garrett was responsible for coordinating a statewide study in all nineteen pueblos in New Mexico. After joining the faculty at San Diego State University in 2004, he was the chairman of the department of gerontology and directed three research institutes. Garrett has published nine books, over 50 refereed papers, and some 300 blogs and editorials. For the past decade, he has directed and curated the film festival, Coming of Age, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. You can review his work at www.mariogarrett.com. He is currently on sabbatical, teaching at York College, CUNY.