Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that helps to build the evidence base for a Culture of Health. Studies funded under the S4A program must test mechanisms for aligning systems that involve all three sectors: medical care, public health, and social services. Action program will …
The Wisconsin Federal Statistical Research Data Center (WiscRDC) is hosting the annual Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) conference September 5 and 6 in the Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The conference will feature more than 30 presentations by researchers from across the country. The keynote speaker is Bruce Weinberg, professor of economics …
Video of Jason Fletcher’s presentation (“Molecular Me: Exploring the Social Implications of the Genomics Revolution”) to the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTlw-NrlfQA
The 2018 LaFollette School Symposium is titled “Emerging Policy Implications from Neuroscience, Genetics, and the Microbiome.” The symposium features presentations by Katherine Magnuson, Bobbi Wolfe, Dan Belsky, Jason Fletcher, Pam Herd, and Alta Charo. Video from the symposium can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL21pLzkUUc&feature=youtu.be
On Friday, March 29, CDHA hosted Deborah Carr, professor of sociology at Boston University, for a discussion of her recent book Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life. In her work Carr, who received her PhD in sociology from UW–Madison and was affiliated with the demography training program, connects research from a variety of fields, …
Federico Rey (bacteriology) recently received funding from the USDA to study the interpersonal variation in gut microbial metabolism of nutrients and cardiometabolic disease. Rey’s new grant stemmed from the 2016–17 pilot, “The Role of Early Life Experiences in Shaping the Gut Microbiome: A Study Incorporating the Microbiome into the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.” About Funder USDA …
CDHA and CDE affiliates have been busy preparing for the annual meeting of the Population Association of America in Austin. Fifty-seven affiliates, including faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and scientists, appear on the conference program ninety-eight times as authors, presenters, chairs, or discussants. For more details, see our list of events.
Name: Eva Vasiljevic Educational background: BA French and Biology, certificate in Global Cultures Master of Public Affairs, expected 2019 Can you describe your research interests? Current research projects? I study the genetic basis of disease at a population level and environmental factors that can change a person’s genetic predisposition to disease. For example, I ask …
Name Ankit Rastogi Hometown Silver Spring, MD Educational background BA, Biology, Dartmouth College; MSc, Biostatistics, Harvard University Can you describe your research interests? Current research projects? I study racial residential integration in the suburbs. It’s an exciting time to study the suburbs because they are experiencing unprecedented racial diversification. As shares of populations of color …
The North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) 2019 will take place in Ottawa, Canada from April 24 to April 26. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. The conference theme is “Benefits of …