Dr. Gina Rumore co-directs the NIA Demography & Economics of Aging Coordinating Center and co-leads the Minnesota Life Course Center’s Development Core. For most of her career, she has focused on mentoring early career scholars and research development in the fields of demography, population health, aging, and data infrastructure. She is expert in NIH grant proposal development and writing, having developed, implemented, and led a number of proposal and project development programs for scholars at the University of Minnesota and around the country. In addition to her work on research development, Rumore also dabbles in research on life course exposures and later life outcomes, with recent research articles appearing in PNAS, Science Advances, and Socius.
Publications
Warren, J. R., Rumore, G., Sicinski, K., Herd, P., & Engelman, M. (2026). Municipal water fluoridation, adolescent IQ, and cognition across the life course: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(16), e2536005123.
Warren, J. R., Rumore, G., Kim, S., Grodsky, E., Muller, C., Manly, J. J., & Brickman, A. M. (2025). Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course. Science Advances, 11(47), eadz0757.
Warren, J. R., & Rumore, G. (2024). Adolescent facial attractiveness and later life morbidity, cognition, and mortality. Socius, 10, 23780231241259679.
Warren, J. R., & Rumore, G. (2023). The association between playing professional American football and longevity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(45), e2308867120.
Mikal, J., & Rumore, G. (2018). 10 Common Grant-Writing Mistakes. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Rumore, G. (2012). Preservation for Science: The Ecological Society of America and the Campaign for Glacier Bay National Monument. Journal of the History of Biology, 45(4), 613-650.
AWARDS
Rachel Carson Prize for Best Dissertation in Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History, 2010.