Congratulations to Katherine Curtis (community and environmental sociology; Applied Population Lab), Michal Engelman (sociology), Jason Fletcher (public affairs; sociology), Alberto Palloni (sociology), and Malia Jones (Applied Population Lab; CDE) on receiving an R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging. Fletcher and Palloni …
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New Affiliates Join CDHA
Since May, 18 new affiliates, representing 12 different departments, joined the Center’s ranks. CDHA also welcomed a new NIA postdoctoral fellow, Katie Jajtner, who came to Madison after completing her doctoral work at Fordham University. …
Cluster Hiring Initiative in Social Genomics
The Initiative in Social Genomics is one of six successful proposals for Cluster Hires at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The aim is for UW to become home to the largest and most innovative group of researchers pursuing …
CDHA Welcomes New Director
The CDHA executive committee has selected Jason Fletcher to become the Center’s next director, effective this month. The Center has been funded through the National Institute on Aging for nearly 20 years. Fletcher is Romnes …
Russell Sage, Ford Fund Sociogenomics Study
The Russell Sage Foundation and the Ford Foundation recently co-funded a new research project focused on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), one of the most comprehensive and longest running social science cohort studies in the …
The Human Microbiome in Health and Disease
While it may seem that we are the sole inhabitants of our bodies, we are, in fact, not alone. Instead, we share space with complex communities of microbes, known collectively as the human microbiome. Found …
Conference: Early Life Determinants of Health, Well-being
Biological processes underlying health at older ages are strongly correlated with social and economic environmental exposures across the life course. Increasingly, the distinction between social scientific and biomedical research on health and aging has blurred. …
Palloni to Fine-Tune Model for Mortality Patterns
Congratulations to Alberto Palloni (sociology, emeritus), who received an R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging for the project “Demographic Modes and Hypothesis Testing of Delayed Effects on Adult Mortality.” Palloni and his collaborator, …
CDHA Training Grant Renewed
One of 11 demography of aging centers funded by core grants from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) is also home to a pre- and postdoctoral …
New Pilot Projects on Health and Aging
Since 1999, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) has been a hub for research that takes a life course approach to understanding variation in health and other dimensions of well-being. In 2017, …