The Center for Demography of Health and Aging is pleased to announce the following pilot project grant awardees for the 2023-2024 academic year: Environmental Determinants of Premature Aging in Transportation and Construction Workforce PI: Wan-chin Kuo This project aims to (1) elucidate the environmental-biological pathways of premature aging in the transportation and construction workforce, (2) …
CDHA/CDE affiliates and graduate students are looking forward to the 2023 PAA annual meeting in New Orleans! Both centers are well represented with 66 faculty affiliates, 18 postdoctoral affiliates, and 50 graduate student affiliates appearing 134 times on the program as authors, discussants, and chairs. A full list of CDE/CDHA contributions may be found here.
Kathleen Mullan Harris, James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Carolina Population Center will be presenting the keynote address to The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series 2023 (TAGC). Her address is titled Add Health in the Age of Social Genomics. Check back to the …
Leafia Ye Ye will begin as an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto in Fall 2023. What are your research interests and current research projects? Right now, I am working on a few different things. I have a project, which was funded through the Retirement and Disability Graduate Research Fellowship Award, where I look at …
Christina Kamis Kamis will begin as an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois in Fall 2023. What are your research interests and current research projects? I have a few different streams within my research, with the mainstream being life course health research, specifically mental health. I’m interested in how early life trauma, adversities and relationships …
The Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin- Madison invites applications for a NIH-funded postdoctoral traineeship. The program develops the research and professional skills of recent PhDs with interests in the social, economic, geographic, and biological determinants of longevity and health. There is an emphasis on the study of genetic …