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 …
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 affiliates are producing cutting-edge research within demography of health and aging. To learn more about research at CDHA, check out current projects here. Jooyoung Kong awarded NIH KO1 Award for her project “The life course approach to caregiving for aging parents: Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences” This grant will provide Kong with 5 years of support, …
Demography Seminar, Tuesdays, 12:15-1:30pm in Sewell Social Sciences Building CDE & CDHA’s weekly Demography Seminar (DemSem) offers presentations of substantive work at the forefront of population sciences by top scholars from across the university campus and beyond. The Demography Seminar is open to all. Demography Training Seminar, Wednesdays, 2:00-3:15pm in Sewell Social Sciences Building Co-hosted …
Congratulations to our affiliates—Naoki Aizawa, Katie Jajtner, Corina Mommaerts, Stephanie Robert, Tim Smeeding, and Yang Wang—who received funding from the Center for Financial Security for projects that address the financial well-being of economically vulnerable populations. The Effect of Public Policies on Work Disability Researchers: Katie Jajtner and Yang Wang The study estimates the impact of …
The annual Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences (IGSS) conference showcases behavioral and molecular genetic studies that enhance demographic and social scientific inquiry and integrate genetics and the social sciences. The conference is co-organized by Jason Fletcher, CDHA director, and Jason Boardman, director of the Health & Society Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, …
Four P30 centers—CDHA and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies; Center for Advancing Sociodemographic and Economic Study of Alzheimer’s Disease; and the Center on Aging and Population Sciences—will host two methodology workshops with Scott Cunningham in 2022. A one-day workshop on difference-in-differences will be held Friday, February 11, 2022 from 10 am-6 pm ET …
In their recent article in SSM – Population Health, CDHA external affiliate Pamela Herd (Georgetown) and Kamil Sicinski (UW–Madison) note that with an aging population and increasing prevalence of dementia, unpacking the relationship between educational attainment and later life cognitive functioning is increasingly important. Yet, the authors note, this relationship is not well understood. “Using …