Category: Announcements

Megan Zuelsdorff & Amy Kind presented at the 2023 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Olayinka Shiyanbola Awarded UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) 2023-24 Pilot Award

Quanyin Hu Receives Early Career Innovator Award

Beth Fields Named 2023 IMPACT Faculty Scholar

Beth Fields has been named a 2023 NIA Impact Collaboratory Faculty Scholar! Per the NIA Impact Collaboratory website, the IMPACT Faculty Scholars Program aims to enhance the career development of investigators in the design and conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials for people living with dementia and their care partners by integrating them into the …

Héctor Pifarré i Arolas awarded American Family Funding Initiative Award to innovate research method

Webinar: Introducing EdSHARe: Education, Racism, Dementia, and the Potential of Repurposing Two Education Cohort Studies (HSB and NLS72) for Aging Research

Vikas Gawai Selected as American University Diversity Scholar Fellow

Vikas Gawai was selected as a Diversity Scholar Fellow and attended the 2023 Diversity Academy at the American University School of Public Affairs. The goal of the Summer Diversity Academy is to provide an opportunity for scholars underrepresented among public affairs faculty to receive quality feedback on research projects and mentoring advice on strategic planning …

Judith Simcox named to the first cohort of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program

The Advances in Social Genomics Conference 2023 Schedule Announced!

The official schedule for The Advances in Social Genomics Conference (TAGC) 2023 is now live and available on the CDHA website! With support from the National Institute of Aging, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging and Initiative in Social Genomics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is hosting The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) June 8th-9th, 2023. The goal of …

Lauren Schmitz Awarded NIA R01 grant as a part of Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health team

Congratulations to Lauren Schmitz (MPI) and the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) team for being awarded the National Insitute on Aging (NIA) R01 grant “Adversity, Aging and ADRD Risk among the Global Poor: A Biosocial Lifecourse Approach“! MLSFH is directed by Hans-Peter Kohler (PI), University of Pennsylvania. “This will be the lowest-income …