Category: Announcements

Natascha Merten featured on UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Dementia Matters Podcast

CDHA 2023-2024 Pilot Grant Awardees Announced!

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 Director Jason Fletcher Awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship

PAA 2023: CDE & CDHA RECAP

CDHA & CDE Engagement at PAA 2023

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.

Hector Arolas Co-Authors Report on Mortality Inequality

On Wisconsin’s “The Truth in Our Genes” featuring CDHA affiliates & Initiative in Social Genomics

Kathleen Mullan Harris announced as Keynote Speaker for TAGC 2023

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 …

Postdoctoral Scholar 2023

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 …

Eric Grodsky, Jennifer Manly, Chandra Muller, and John Robert Warren, “Cohort Profile: High School and Beyond”