CDHA is pleased to announce funding for five new pilot projects for 2020-2021. ZhengZheng Tang, Jooyoung Kong, Philipp Koellinger, Judith Simcox, and Jason Fletcher are our grantees – congratulations! Researchers will study a far-ranging array of aging-related conditions using some of the most advanced technological analytic methods available today. Investigating the Interactions between Inflammatory Biomarkers …
A virtual version of the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting will be taking place online Thursday, April 23 through Saturday, April 25. Though fewer scholars will be participating overall, a healthy number of CDE/CDHA faculty and students are still set to present! Their sessions are listed below. All times are ET. To view the …
CDHA affiliate Lauren Schmitz (Assistant Professor, Public Affairs, UW-Madison) is part of a research team that has been awarded a new NIA pilot grant through the Research Centers Collaborative Network! Schmitz, along with Erin Ware and Ariana Gard, a pair of researchers from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, will be …
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the Eleventh Annual Midwest Health Economics Conference May 7-8, 2020. Local sponsors are the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, La Follette School of Public Affairs, School of Business, Department of Economics, and Department of Population Health Sciences. This annual invitational conference assembles junior and senior economists to …
In February 2018, the University of Wisconsin-Madison began recruiting three tenure-track faculty for a Cluster Hire in Social Genomics. CDHA Director Jason Fletcher (sociology/public affairs/public health sciences) and CDHA affiliates Corinne Engelman (population health sciences), James Li (psychology), and Qiongshi Lu (biostatistics and medical informatics) submitted the successful proposal for the Cluster Hire with the …
CDHA is pioneering four new pilot projects this fall: Testing Gene-environment Interactions without Measuring the Environmental Factor PI: Qiongshi Lu, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Dr. Lu seeks to use this pilot project to address a lack of epidemiological risk factors in major genome-wide association studies. His lab will work to explore if a …
CDHA is thrilled to welcome six new affiliates for fall 2019! James Li is an assistant professor in Psychology. He uses genetics and quantitative analysis of environmental factors as methods to investigate the underlying factors associated with behavioral disorders in childhood. He further expands expertise in CDHA’s biodemography theme. Stephen Meyn is the Director of …
The National Institute on Aging began funding seven new projects by CDHA over the last twelve months, including several new this fall! As a whole, the projects bring in millions of dollars in research funding to CDHA and UW-Madison. The projects include a pair of studies that utilize a newly-available longitudinal dataset which tracks the …
The Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion at Syracuse University (http://lernercenter.syr.edu/) invites applications for a postdoctoral associate in applied population health. Candidates with interests in rural health, rural demography, and/or rural aging are especially encouraged to apply. This position will offer exceptional opportunities for collaboration within the Center for Policy Research (https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/cpr.aspx), Aging Studies Institute …