Biodemography is one of five major research themes at CDHA. With supplemental funding to the Center’s P30 center grant, affiliate Qiongshi Lu will continue to expand CDHA’s work in this field through the project “Quantifying and Understanding Indirect Genetic Effects on Alzheimer’s Disease.” Using genetic data in the UK Biobank and public summary statistics of …
Congratulations to Michal Engelman, associate professor of sociology and CDHA’s associate training director, who was recently named director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS). With a background in demography, gerontology, and biostatistics, Engelman draws on theories and methods from both public health and the social sciences to study the social determinants of health in later …
This fall, Philipp Koellinger and Sam Trejo join past cluster-hire Lauren Schmitz in filling the three tenure-track faculty positions created within the Initiative in Social Genomics (ISG). This interdisciplinary group of scholars, along with other core faculty—Corinne Engelman, Jason Fletcher, Hyunseung Kang, James Li, and Qiongshi Lu—combine their interests and expertise in Social Genomics to …
Lauren Schmitz received NIA funding for her project “Life Course Determinants of Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Subsequent Dementia.” Schmitz seeks to understand the impact of interactions between socioeconomic status (SES), genotype, and health behaviors on disparities in epigenetic age acceleration and cognitive decline or Alzheimer’s disease. Schmitz also received a Sandell Grant to fund her …
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. We welcome these new affiliates for fall 2020: Oguzhan Alagoz (Professor, College of Engineering) Ying (Jessica) Cao (Assistant Professor, Population …
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 gave current and past affiliates, students, and staff an opportunity to reflect on the center’s rich history and to recognize …
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 Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and UW’s College of Letters & Science—among others—the center is poised for growth. …
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 Business, Department of Economics, and Department of Population Health Sciences. This annual invitational conference assembles junior and senior economists to …
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), James Li (psychology), and Qiongshi Lu (biostatistics and medical informatics) submitted the successful proposal for the Cluster Hire with the …
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 address a lack of epidemiological risk factors in major genome-wide association studies. His lab will work to explore if a …