View of the Lake Mendota shoreline.

Leadership

CDHA Director

Jason Fletcher

Credentials: CDHA Director; Professor, Public Affairs and Population Health Sciences, UW–Madison

Address:
4434 William H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI

Research Interests

Aging and the Life Course, Biodemography, Determinants of Disparities of Aging Trajectories, Health Economics and Health Services Research, and Impacts of Place on Aging Processes

CDHA Steering Committee

Katherine Curtis

Credentials: Professor, Community and Environmental Sociology

Address:
316B Agricultural Hall
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, WI

Research interests

Impacts of Place on Aging Processes

Michal Engelman

Credentials: Associate Professor, Sociology

Address:
4402 William H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI

Research interest statement

Engelman’s research combines perspectives from the social sciences and public health to examine the social determinants of health and longevity. She is particularly interested in how social stratification (by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, nativity, and geography) manifests in health and mortality inequities. Engelman is the Principal Investigator of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study and the Director of the doctoral and postdoctoral training program in Population, Life Course, and Aging. Her current research projects include several NIH-supported studies exploring the impact of neighborhood disadvantage on accelerated epigenetic aging (REWARD) and linkages between early and midlife exposures and cognitive health in later life (ILIAD).

Research interests

Aging and the Life Course, Biodemography, Determinants of Disparities of Aging Trajectories, and Impacts of Place on Aging Processes

Jason Fletcher

Credentials: CDHA Director; Professor, Public Affairs and Population Health Sciences, UW–Madison

Address:
4434 William H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI

Research Interests

Aging and the Life Course, Biodemography, Determinants of Disparities of Aging Trajectories, Health Economics and Health Services Research, and Impacts of Place on Aging Processes

Amy Kind

Credentials: Associate Dean for Social Health Sciences and Programs; Professor, Geriatrics

Address:
Clinical Science Center
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI

Research interests

Aging and the Life Course, Biodemography, Determinants of Disparities of Aging Trajectories, Impacts of Place on Aging Processes, and Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease

John Mullahy

Credentials: Professor, Population Health Sciences

Address:
787 Warf Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI

Research interests

Determinants of Disparities of Aging Trajectories and Health Economics and Health Services Research

Stephanie Robert

Credentials: Professor, School of Social Work

Address:
312 School of Social Work Building
1350 University Ave.
Madison, WI

Research interests

Aging and the Life Course, Determinants of Disparities of Aging Trajectories, Health Economics and Health Services Research, and Impacts of Place on Aging Processes

Jeffrey Smith

Credentials: Paul T. Heyne Distinguished Chair, Economics; Richard A. Meese Chair, Applied Econometrics

Address:
1180 Observatory Dr
7454 Sewell Social Sciences
Madison, WI

Research interests

Health Economics and Health Services Research

Justin Sydnor

Credentials: Professor, Risk and Insurance

Position title: Leslie P. Schultz Professor, Risk and Insurance

Address:
5284B Grainger Hall
975 University Ave
Madison, WI

Research interests

Health Economics and Health Services Research

CDHA Advisory Committee

Sanjay Asthana

Credentials: Associate Dean for Gerontology; Professor, Medicine

Position title: Ballantine Professor, Medicine

Address:
106 Medical Science Building
2870 University Ave
Madison, WI

Lawrence Berger

Credentials: Professor, Social Work

Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor; Director, Institute for Research on Poverty

J. Michael Collins

Credentials: Associate Professor, Consumer Science

Position title: Director, Center for Financial Security

Address:
4208 Nancy Nicholas Hall
1300 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI

Jason Fletcher

Credentials: CDHA Director; Professor, Public Affairs and Population Health Sciences, UW–Madison

Address:
4434 William H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI

Jenna Nobles

Credentials: Professor, Sociology

Address:
4452 William H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI

Alberto Palloni

Credentials: Professor Emeritus, Sociology

Address:
4429 William H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI

Carol Ryff

Credentials: Professor, Psychology

Address:
2245 Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Ave.
Madison, WI