The University of Wisconsin–Madison will host the Eleventh Annual Midwest Health Economics Conference May 7-8, 2020. Local sponsors are the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, La Follette School of Public Affairs, School of Business, Department of Economics, and Department of Population Health Sciences. This annual invitational conference assembles junior and senior economists to …
In February 2018, the University of Wisconsin–Madison began recruiting three tenure-track faculty for a Cluster Hire in Social Genomics. CDHA Director Jason Fletcher (sociology/public affairs/public health sciences) and CDHA affiliates Corinne Engelman (population health sciences), James Li (psychology), and Qiongshi Lu (biostatistics and medical informatics) submitted the successful proposal for the Cluster Hire with the …
CDHA is pioneering four new pilot projects this fall: Testing Gene-environment Interactions without Measuring the Environmental Factor PI: Qiongshi Lu, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Dr. Lu seeks to use this pilot project to address a lack of epidemiological risk factors in major genome-wide association studies. His lab will work to explore if a …
CDHA is thrilled to welcome six new affiliates for fall 2019! James Li is an assistant professor in Psychology. He uses genetics and quantitative analysis of environmental factors as methods to investigate the underlying factors associated with behavioral disorders in childhood. He further expands expertise in CDHA’s biodemography theme. Stephen Meyn is the Director of …
The National Institute on Aging began funding seven new projects by CDHA over the last twelve months, including several new this fall! As a whole, the projects bring in millions of dollars in research funding to CDHA and UW–Madison. The projects include a pair of studies that utilize a newly-available longitudinal dataset which tracks the …
The Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion at Syracuse University (http://lernercenter.syr.edu/) invites applications for a postdoctoral associate in applied population health. Candidates with interests in rural health, rural demography, and/or rural aging are especially encouraged to apply. This position will offer exceptional opportunities for collaboration within the Center for Policy Research (https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/cpr.aspx), Aging Studies Institute …
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College announces the 2020 Sandell Grant and Dissertation Fellowship Programs, funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration. The submission deadline for both programs is January 31, 2020. Sandell Grants provide the opportunity for junior or non-tenured scholars to pursue research on retirement or disability policy. Up to three …
The 27th Annual RAND Summer Institute will be help July 6-9, 2020 in Santa Monica, California. The Institute will consist of two sessions: The Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists on July 6–7, and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 8–9, 2020. The deadline for applications is March 16, 2020. https://www.rand.org/well-being/social-and-behavioral-policy/centers/aging/rsi.html
RAND Corporation is accepting applications for its Postdoctoral Training Program in the Study of Aging. This program is open to new scholars and junior scholars in the field of demographic and aging research. RAND Fellows can sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate research results effectively, and advance their research agenda as they participate in …
The 27th annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI) will take place in Santa Monica, CA, July 6-9, 2020. The RSI consists of two conferences, each addressing critical issues facing our aging population: a Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists (July 6-7) and a workshop on the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging (July 8-9). The Workshop …