University of Wisconsin–Madison

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New Study to Examine Place of Birth, Health, and Mortality at Older Ages

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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 will lead the project “The Importance of Place of Birth in Determining Health and Mortality at Older Ages,” which will …

New Affiliates Join CDHA

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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. Naoki Aizawa is an assistant professor of economics specializing in applied microeconomics. His current research focuses on insurance markets and interactions …

Cluster Hiring Initiative in Social Genomics

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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 topics in Social Genomics in the world. As part of the new Cluster Hiring Initiative in Social Genomics, an interdisciplinary group …

CDHA Welcomes New Director

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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 Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology with additional appointments in Agricultural and Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences.  He is …

Russell Sage, Ford Fund Sociogenomics Study

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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 U.S. For 60 years, UW–Madison researchers have tracked the health, well-being, and economic attainment of 10,000 Wisconsinites who graduated high …

The Human Microbiome in Health and Disease

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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 all over the human body—the gut, skin, mouth, and nose are just a few examples—microbiota play a critical role in …

Conference: Early Life Determinants of Health, Well-being

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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. For demographers, new ways of thinking about health and aging are bringing together biomedical and social scientific paradigms. This area …

Palloni to Fine-Tune Model for Mortality Patterns

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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, former CDHA postdoc Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez (UCLA), will test predictions from theories of Developmental Origins of Adult Health and Disease (DOHaD) …

CDHA Training Grant Renewed

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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 training program supported by a T32 grant from the institute. UW–Madison has received continuous T32 funding for training in population, …

New Pilot Projects on Health and Aging

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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, three faculty affiliates received funding through CDHA’s core center grant (P30 AG017266) from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to …