Congratulations to Federico Rey (bacteriology) who is part of a research team that recently received a new grant from the Fondation Leducq. The project, “Gut Microbiome as a Target for the Treatment of Cardiometabolic Diseases, ” is part of the 2017 Transatlantic Networks of Excellence Program, which promotes collaborative work between Europe and North America. Coordinated by …
Graduate student Sebastian Daza is interested in social complexity, networks, and health. At CDHA, Daza has focused his research on the magnitude and variability of the association between income mobility, health, and mortality in the United States. Income mobility is a distinct aspect of social stratification, and, according to Daza, improving social mobility is one intervention that …
New research from 2015–17 NIA postdoc Katherine Lin, now an assistant professor at Dartmouth, explores the relationship between work, parenting, and work-home spillover. Using a life course perspective, Lin and co-author Sarah Burgard (Michigan) examined how work-home spillover changes as men and women move through different parenting stages. Lin and Burgard analyzed data from two …
Megan Zuelsdorff joined CDHA as a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral trainee in September 2017 and has worked on several research projects related to social determinants of cognitive aging processes and socioenvironmental contributors to well-established disparities in impairment and Alzheimer’s risk. One of her major projects examines how adverse events across the life course contribute …
In face-to-face-interviews on personal health, respondents often self-report measures of their physical and mental capabilities by answering a series of questions. In some cases, interviewers conducting the surveys also rate respondents’ health by answering questions like, “Would you say the respondent’s health in general is excellent, very good, fair, or poor?” These questions, known as …
Scholars have long wondered what enables some people to live to very old ages while others do not. Research has shown that a number of inherited genetic variants are linked to overall and longer lifespan. A recent study published in Aging, co-authored by CDHA Director Pamela Herd (public affairs; sociology), indicated that the number of these …
Each year, CDHA provides pilot grants to affiliates engaged in innovative research that is likely to lead to support from external funders. During the academic year 2014–15, PIs Barbara Wolfe (public affairs, economics, population health sciences), Jason Fletcher (public affairs; sociology), Jan Greenberg (social work), and Marsha Mailick (vice chancellor for research and graduate education; …
The microbiome is now considered to be as important to human health as the genome. For social and population health scientists, research on the human microbiome may help identify biological mediators that link social conditions to health and mortality. However, research has been hindered by human studies that did not have randomly selected samples and …
Are friends more genetically similar to one another than to randomly selected peers? Humans tend to form social relationships with others who resemble them, and recent research has evaluated the possibility that unobserved genotypes may play an important role in the creation of homophilous relationships. Researchers Benjamin Domingue (Stanford), Daniel Belsky (Duke), CDHA affiliate Jason Fletcher (public …
On April 12, the La Follette School of Public Affairs hosted the 2018 Spring Symposium. Co-sponsored by CDHA, the Center for Demography and Ecology, and the Institute for Research on Poverty, the event examined the ethical and policy-related challenges that have stemmed from recent breakthroughs in research on the human microbiome, genetics, and the human …