Fall 2021 Schedule
The Health/Aging/Place group will meet from 12:00-2:00 pm on Fridays during the fall 2021 semester. Meetings will be held in 1328 Sterling Hall.
Events Archive
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Fall 2020
September 11, 2020: “The Effect of In Utero Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Child Mortality in the United States,” Elaine Hernandez (Indiana University)
September 25, 2020: “Longevity and In Utero Exposure to the Pandemics in the 19th Century,” Won-tak Joo
October 2, 2020: “A Machine Learning Approach to Place and Mortality,” Wei Xu
October 23, 2020: “Widening Nativity Gaps in Income in Mid-to-Later Life,” Leafia Ye
November 6, 2020: “Drilling, Pollution, and Infant Health,” Hamid Noghanibehambari (Texas Tech University)
November 20, 2020: “Parenthood in Later Life and Risk of Cognitive Impairment,” Yan Zhang (Michigan State University)
December 4, 2020: “Living Arrangement and Chronic Loneliness at Older Age,” Shiro Furuya
December 11, 2020: “Do Urgent Care Centers Reduce Spending and Increase Access to Care?” Giacomo Meille (University of Michigan)
Summer 2020
July 8, 2020: CENSOC discussion, Leah Foltman and Gracie Venechuk
July 22, 2020: “A Rising ‘0.5 Generation’? Age at Migration and Retirement Outcomes of the Foreign-born,” Leafia Ye
July 29, 2020: “The Impact of State Income Tax Breaks for the Elderly on Savings and Income Security,” Ngoc Dao
August 5, 2020: “Early-life Diet Associations with Late-life Cognition,” Eva Vasiljevic
August 12, 2020: “Mortality Variation/CenSoc 1918 Influenza Pandemic,” Michal Engelman and Jason Fletcher
August 19, 2020: “Multiplex Intergenerational Mobility: A Place-based Analysis,” Katie Jajtner with Jason Fletcher
Spring 2020
January 23, 2020: Katie Jajtner
January 30, 2020: Hans Schwarz
February 6, 2020: Wei Xu
February 27, 2020: Won-tak Joo
March 5, 2020: B. Piedad Urdinola
March 12, 2020: Ngoc Dao
April 16, 2020: Jessica Polos
April 30, 2020: Shiro Furuya
May 7, 2020: Nathan Seltzer
Spring 2021
February 8, 2021
“Understanding Geographic Disparities in Mortality,” Hans Schwarz
February 22, 2021
“Trend in lifespan variation across US states: 1959-2017,” Wei Xu
March 1, 2021
“Space, Race and Mental Health: COVID-19 in Wisconsin” (pilot study), Gracie Venechuk and Leah Foltman
March 8, 2021
“Variations in Health Outcomes by Educational Attainment with a Regression,” Shiro Furuya
March 15, 2021
“The Association of Psychological Well-being with Sensory and Cognitive Function and Neuronal Health in Aging Adults,” Natascha Merten
“Multidimensional Intergenerational Mobility,” Katie Jajtner
March 22, 2021
“Space-time Geography: An Organizing Framework for Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research,” Malia Jones
April 19, 2021
“Lifespan variations in the US: state of birth vs. state of residence,” Wei Xu
April 26, 2021
“Area Deprivation Index, Education, and Daily Stress and Well-being,” Julie Kirsch