We’re pleased to share Dr. Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, Associate Professor in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, co-directs the newly established EMBRACE (Establishing Mechanisms of Benefit to Reinforce the Alzheimer’s Care Experience) Center. The EMBRACE Center, supported by a $5.8 million National Institute on Aging grant, is designed to test and implement effective dementia care interventions. …
The CDHA community proudly celebrates Dr. Shaneda Warren Andersen, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, for receiving the ICTR Translational Basic & Clinical Pilot Award for her project “Biomarkers to Personalize Colorectal Cancer Screening & Treatment.” A Badger alumna, she earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at UW–Madison before pursuing postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University. …
We’re excited to announce Lauren Schmitz as our new Associate Director of Training! Lauren is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. Schmitz is a dedicated member of the CDHA community with her research interests spanning social genomics, health economics, population health and aging, the economics of aging, biodemography, …
CDE & CDHA affiliates and graduate students were a powerful presence at the 2024 PAA annual meeting in Columbus! Both centers were well represented with 30 faculty affiliates and 28 graduate student affiliates appearing 106 times on the program as authors, discussants, and chairs. Emma Rommell, graduate student in the Department of Sociology at …
Congratulations to Sterling Johnson, study leader of the Clarity in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI) study, which has been awarded a $150 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide imaging and blood-based biomarkers for researchers to advance the field of ADRD. The CLARiTI study will involve 37 Alzheimer’s …
Congratulations to Maichou Lor, who was awarded a 2023 Outstanding Women of Color in Education award! Lor was one of 13 recipients honored by the University of Wisconsin System this year, with the award recognizing their achievements in advancing equity and inclusion for people of color within the Universities of Wisconsin and communities across Wisconsin. …
Congratulations to Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Tiffany Green, who were named 2023 Outstanding Women of Color Honorees by the University of Wisconsin-Madison! This annual award, established in 2007, honors women of color among UW–Madison’s faculty, staff, students, and in the greater Madison community whose advocacy, activism, or scholarship has fostered social justice and organizational change, who …
Congratulations to Christine Schwartz for her NIH-funded R03 “The Divorce Decline and Relationship Stability: 1970-2019.” Christine Schwartz is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Sociology and was recently named the Associate Director of CDHA. “The Divorce Decline and Relationship Stability: 1970-2019 is an NIH-funded R03 on trends in divorce and relationship dissolution in the United …
Congratulations to CDHA graduate student Yue Qin, who was awarded a New Investigator Award for Excellence in Aging Research for her poster entitled “Labor union membership & the educational gradient in later-life health: Results from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study at the Institute on Aging’s Annual Colloquium. Qin is a PhD student in the Sociology department …
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 …