With more than 90 affiliates across UW–Madison’s campus, CDHA continues to grow in both numbers and depth of expertise. The CDHA Steering Committee voted unanimously to extend invitations to a talented group of UW faculty. …
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CDHA Celebrates 20 Years with Symposium
In 1999, the National Institute on Aging awarded UW–Madison a center grant to support demography of health and aging research—and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging was born. The CDHA 20th Anniversary Symposium …
CDHA Center Grant Renewed
With the renewal of the center grant, CDHA has much to look forward to in the next five years. With increased NIA funding of over fifty percent and significant support from the Office of the …
Call for Papers: Eleventh Annual Midwest Health Economics Conference
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the Eleventh Annual Midwest Health Economics Conference May 7-8, 2020. Local sponsors are the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, La Follette School of Public Affairs, School of …
Initiative in Social Genomics Update
In February 2018, the University of Wisconsin-Madison began recruiting three tenure-track faculty for a Cluster Hire in Social Genomics. CDHA Director Jason Fletcher (sociology/public affairs/public health sciences) and CDHA affiliates Corinne Engelman (population health sciences), …
New CDHA Pilot Projects for Fall 2019
CDHA is pioneering four new pilot projects this fall: Testing Gene-environment Interactions without Measuring the Environmental Factor PI: Qiongshi Lu, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Dr. Lu seeks to use this pilot project to …
New Affiliates Join CDHA
CDHA is thrilled to welcome six new affiliates for fall 2019! James Li is an assistant professor in Psychology. He uses genetics and quantitative analysis of environmental factors as methods to investigate the underlying factors …
Fall 2019 Grants & Supplements
The National Institute on Aging began funding seven new projects by CDHA over the last twelve months, including several new this fall! As a whole, the projects bring in millions of dollars in research funding …
Book Discussion with Deborah Carr
On Friday, March 29, CDHA hosted Deborah Carr, professor of sociology at Boston University, for a discussion of her recent book Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life. In her work Carr, who received her …
USDA Awards Grant to Study Variation in Gut Microbial Metabolism
Federico Rey (bacteriology) recently received funding from the USDA to study the interpersonal variation in gut microbial metabolism of nutrients and cardiometabolic disease. Rey’s new grant stemmed from the 2016–17 pilot, “The Role of Early …