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, …
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Team Receives Grant to Study the Gut Microbiome & Cardiometabolic Diseases
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 …
Student Research: Income Mobility, Health, and Mortality
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. …
New Study on Work, Parenting, and Work-Home Spillover
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 …
NIA Postdoc Receives Alzheimer’s Association Funding
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 …
Health Surveys Can Reveal Supplementary Health Information, Research Shows
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 …
25 Genetic Markers Linked to Longevity
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. …
Pilot Project Investigates Effects of Sibling Death
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 …
The Human Microbiome and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
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 …
The Social Genome of Friends
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 …