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 …
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 …