The Russell Sage Foundation and the Ford Foundation recently co-funded a new research project focused on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), one of the most comprehensive and longest running social science cohort studies in the U.S. For 60 years, UW–Madison researchers have tracked the health, well-being, and economic attainment of 10,000 Wisconsinites who graduated high …
While it may seem that we are the sole inhabitants of our bodies, we are, in fact, not alone. Instead, we share space with complex communities of microbes, known collectively as the human microbiome. Found all over the human body—the gut, skin, mouth, and nose are just a few examples—microbiota play a critical role in …
Biological processes underlying health at older ages are strongly correlated with social and economic environmental exposures across the life course. Increasingly, the distinction between social scientific and biomedical research on health and aging has blurred. For demographers, new ways of thinking about health and aging are bringing together biomedical and social scientific paradigms. This area …
Congratulations to Alberto Palloni (sociology, emeritus), who received an R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging for the project “Demographic Modes and Hypothesis Testing of Delayed Effects on Adult Mortality.” Palloni and his collaborator, former CDHA postdoc Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez (UCLA), will test predictions from theories of Developmental Origins of Adult Health and Disease (DOHaD) …
One of 11 demography of aging centers funded by core grants from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) is also home to a pre- and postdoctoral training program supported by a T32 grant from the institute. UW–Madison has received continuous T32 funding for training in population, …
Since 1999, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) has been a hub for research that takes a life course approach to understanding variation in health and other dimensions of well-being. In 2017, three faculty affiliates received funding through CDHA’s core center grant (P30 AG017266) from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to …