Five new affiliates have joined CDHA: please welcome Sigan Hartley, Olayinka Shiyanbola, Alvin Thomas, Nicole Werner, and Victoria Zhang! Sigan Hartley is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the School of Human Ecology. Her research program is aimed at promoting optimal development and health in individuals with neurodevelopmental …
Mark your calendars: two exciting events are coming up this fall. On Wednesday, September 29, the UW Health Economics Research Group will host a workshop exploring research on the opioid epidemic with presentations by Adibah Abdulhadi (PhD student, economics), Christine Durrance (associate professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs), Ross Milton (assistant professor, La Follette …
Congratulations and a big thank you go to Lu Chou, who retired in July from her position as senior special librarian at the Data and Information Services Center (DISC) after 30 years of service to the UW. As many know, Chou provided data and library services to Center affiliates by helping faculty and students find …
Through the center grant from the National Institute on Aging, CDHA provides financial support to affiliates who are developing innovative projects likely to receive federal funding. Each year, CDHA invites interested investigators to submit proposals for pilot funding. For the academic year 2021–22, CDHA awarded five pilot grants: “Post-acute Care Access and Disparities among ACO …
Affiliate Eric Grodsky is part of a research team awarded $14.2 million in new funding from the National Institute on Aging to study the early life conditions that can affect later-life risks for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). The project will examine biomarkers to uncover how experiences and educational opportunities in adolescence shape risks …
Under the leadership of Director Kristen Malecki, associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), has launched two new initiatives to address the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, SHOW—a statewide public health survey designed to help improve health in Wisconsin and throughout the world— began its …
On February 12, CDHA and the UW Initiative in Social Genomics (ISG) hosted the methods workshop “Integrating Biological and Social Science into Health and Aging Research.” Part of the series Advances in New Data & Big Data for Aging Research, the event was co-sponsored by three other P30 aging centers: the Center for Aging and …
Lauren Schmitz received a pilot project award from the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health (P30AG017265) for the study “Early Life Adversity Associations with Later Life Epigenetic Profiles: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).” Epigenetic clocks have been widely used to predict disease risk in multiple tissues or cells. Their success as a measure …
Affiliate Wei Xu received a new grant from NIA for the project “Interactive Effects of Physical Activity and Neighborhood Air Pollution on Risk of Incident Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.” Together with co-investigators Jason Fletcher, CDHA’s director, Ozioma Okonkwo of the Department of Medicine, and Kristen Malecki of the Department of Population Health Sciences, Xu …
Fifteen projects have been chosen for UW’s Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative, funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Designed to support research to build stronger bodies of knowledge on how to reduce inequalities, the initiative aims to identify actionable pathways for reducing …