Becca Levy is a Professor of Epidemiology and Psychology at Yale University. Her research explores how psychosocial factors can improve older individuals' cognitive and physical functioning, as well as their longevity. She is credited with creating a field of study that focuses on how positive and negative age stereotypes, which are assimilated from the culture, can have beneficial and adverse effects, respectively, on the health of older individuals. She has received numerous awards including the Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement Award for Exceptional Contributions to the Psychological Science of Aging from the American Psychological Association, the Brookdale National Fellowship for Leadership in Aging, and the Ewald W. Busse Research Award in the Social Behavioral Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University. Her research has been supported by the Donaghue Medical Research Foundation and the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Levy has given invited testimony before the United States Senate on the effects of ageism and contributed to briefs submitted to the United States Supreme Court in age-discrimination cases.