The Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease & Services (HEADS) Center presents, Carolee Lee and Lori Frank, PhD speaking on, “The WHAM Report: Research Funding for Women’s Health- Modeling Societal Impact of Investment for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.” Wednesday, December 8, 12 -1 p.m. EST. Zoom Registration required.
The Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease & Services (HEADS) Center presents, Carolee Lee and Lori Frank, PhD speaking on, “The WHAM Report: Research Funding for Women’s Health- Modeling Societal Impact of Investment for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.” Wednesday, December 8, 12 -1 p.m. EST.
The NHATS/NSOC Virtual Research in Progress Seminar will be held on Friday, December 3, 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST over Zoom and will be presented by Sarah Patterson, a research investigator with the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA).
The title of her talk is “An Update on Disability and Care Needs Among Older Americans.”
RSVP to [email protected]. Zoom details to follow.
If you have questions or are interested in presenting at a future seminar, please contact Mengyao Hu ([email protected]). We have openings for spring 2022.
Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues and/or project staff.
Dr Patterson’s research interests span demographic shifts in life expectancy, family structure, and gendered patterns of caregiving and employment converge to create new and ever-changing forms of social inequality. Dr. Patterson’s research is concerned with how, in this changing demographic environment, enduring norms and expectations around families and for individual family members function across three domains. First, she explores the demography of aging, or how population aging in tandem with changing family forms contribute to social inequality across the life course. Second, she explores family demography and intergenerational inequality, or how family structure changes and norms around family roles contribute to inequality across and between generations. And third, Dr. Patterson explores gender inequality at the work and family nexus, or how work and family individually and interactively contribute to trends in gender inequality. Her projects cover a range of topics including caregiving, work, education, and mortality.
Additional information about NHATS and NSOC is available at nhats.org
NBER Conference: Improving Health Outcomes for an Aging Population, Virtual meeting on Nov 30 – Dec 1. Leading researchers will present the results of recent advances coming out of the program project: Improving Health Outcomes for an Aging Population.
Program and Registration Details.
Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) Annual Fall Conference will begin with a keynote and Q&A with CAPS 2021 Visiting Scholar, followed by short presentations from CAPS affiliates, students, and postdocs.
CAPS Annual Conference 2021 Agenda, Nov. 5, 2021.
The 2021 CAPS Visiting Scholar is Courtney Boen, Assistant Professor and Axilrod Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, who will speak on “The Scars of Legal Violence: Immigration Policy, Surveillance, and Enforcement and Population Health Inequality.”
Pilot Award Presentations:
Moderator: Janet Wilmoth (Syracuse)
Pilot Flash Talks:
Flash Session:
Moderator: Douglas Wolf (Syracuse)
Hamid Noghanibehambari, of the Wisconsin Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA), will discuss his work on The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence Using College Expansions.
Dr. Noghanibehambari’s research interests span health economics and health services research.
A jointly organized virtual symposium on “Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Impact on Diverse Communities” will be held on November 18th at 4pm. It is co-sponsored by several programs at Morgan State University, the JHADRC and the JHAD-RCMAR.
Register: https://tinyurl.com/Nov18Seminar
OBJECTIVE: The National Institutes of Health Rural Health Special Interest Group works to raise awareness of rural health issues and improve biomedical, behavioral/social science, intervention and implementation research aimed at improving disease prevention, self-management, and care delivery across the care continuum. Our goal is to advance our understanding of rural health disparities and stimulate research to identify multi-level, evidence-based solutions to improve rural health outcomes. The group connects clinical, community-based interventionists, and translational scientists from diverse disciplines across the NIH to research communities and decision makers, as well as to provide opportunities for professional development, networking, and community engagement.
ABOUT THE SEMINAR: The 2021 Rural Health Seminar will advance our understanding of the structural-level determinants of health that contribute to rural health disparities. The seminar will highlight research to build effective interventions that address the multiple, structural-level health inequities faced by rural communities. The 2021 seminar is organized around three tracks where speakers will discuss: 1) sociocultural and economic determinants in rural settings, 2) physical environmental determinants in rural settings, and 3) evaluation and policy. Attendees will come away from this virtual seminar with an understanding of the impact of structural determinates on rural populations and the need for multi-level interventions to reduce rural health disparities.
More details for Structural-Level Determinants of Rural Health Disparities.
Co-Sponsoring NIH Institutes and Centers:
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Please join the Life Course Center at the University of Minnesota for a virtual research mixer!
WORK AND LATER LIFE COURSE HEALTH
Wednesday, October 27th | 10:00 – 11:00 am CST
Following the panel discussion, we’ll take a quick break and then there will be time to discuss potential research ideas starting at 11:15 am [same Zoom link].
The goal is to stimulate collaborative interdisciplinary research on work as a social determinant of health/well-being — and of disparities in both social inclusion and health/well-being — among older Americans. Work is defined broadly including paid work and self-employment, but also family caregiving and volunteer work.
To jumpstart ideas we have invited three experts in the field to the research mixer. We will then open up the meeting for a wide-ranging conversation responding to your questions, comments and interests, as well as fruitful data sources, and possible next steps.
We will be joined by:
Dr. Bruce Link, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of California Riverside and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. He is best known for his work on the social determinants of health and is interested in policy issues.
Dr. Mo Wang, Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. He is currently the editor-in-chief for the journal, Work, Aging and Retirement. He specializes in research areas of retirement and older worker employment, occupational health psychology, expatriate and newcomer adjustment, leadership and team processes, and advanced quantitative methodologies.
Dr. Rada Dagher, Scientific Program Director at NIMHD. She helped organize an earlier NIMHD workshop on diversities in work and health (“Role of Work in Health Disparities in the US) that led to a call for proposals PAR-21-275, The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the US. Dr. Dagher manages a diverse portfolio of research, capacity building, and training grants, and is a project scientist on several cooperative agreement awards.
Julie P W Bynum, of the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA), will speak on, “Accelerating Population Research and its Impact on Reducing Alzheimer’s Disease Burden.”
Presented by the JHU Cochlear Center.
Dr. Bynum’s research focuses on the assessment of healthcare delivery for older adults using national U.S. Medicare healthcare data linked to other datasets. She has successfully led interdisciplinary teams to answer questions about the performance of the health system and the complex drivers of quality and costs, especially for older adults nearing the end of life or with Alzheimer’s disease.
Join this information session to learn about the upcoming Hopkins’ Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease & Services Center (HEADS) pilot award cycle and application process, and ask the Pilot Core leadership questions.