The 2025 Climate Change, Aging, and Health Across the Life Course workshop brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at UW-Madison to share research and build new collaborations around the critical issues of populations, environmental change, and health. We’re thrilled to announce that the Center for Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE), which was introduced at …
Congratulations to CDHA graduate student trainees Johanna Nunez & Sarah Salas, who were awarded first place at the ICAA 2024 conference for their poster “Mechanisms of Latino Migrant Retention: Lived-In Experiences from the Third Age and Implications for Health.” The poster is based on life history interviews with Latino older adults living in Wisconsin, conducted with …
The CDHA community proudly celebrates Dr. Shaneda Warren Andersen, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, for receiving the ICTR Translational Basic & Clinical Pilot Award for her project “Biomarkers to Personalize Colorectal Cancer Screening & Treatment.” A Badger alumna, she earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at UW–Madison before pursuing postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University. …
We’re pleased to share Dr. Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, Associate Professor in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, co-directs the newly established EMBRACE (Establishing Mechanisms of Benefit to Reinforce the Alzheimer’s Care Experience) Center. The EMBRACE Center, supported by a $5.8 million National Institute on Aging grant, is designed to test and implement effective dementia care interventions. …
Name: Yue Qin, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology Hometown: Shandong, China Educational background: B.A. in Sociology, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China); M.A. in Sociology, Boston College How did you first connect to your field of research? I found my research interests in aging and health when working as a research assistant in a Chinese think tank, …