HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDIES
AROUND THE WORLD
This project fosters a cross-country research agenda by encouraging the development of new health and retirement studies around the world and their harmonization with existing studies that are comparable to the Health and Retirement Studies (HRS), and facilitating further innovations among this network of surveys. Click here to learn more about the studies.
Principal Investigator:
David Weir, PhD (U Michigan), Principal Investigator
Rose M Li, MBA, PhD (RLA), Project Manager
NOTICES
Call for Applications, Education Hackathon
As a part of the Gateway to Global Aging Data’s ongoing effort to investigate education’s long-term implications for late-life health, the Gateway education team is hosting a research hackathon for early-career researchers from July 27-30 in Washington, D.C. The hackathon is a team-based competition where participants will collaborate on a study investigating the role of education in determining risk, resilience, and disparities in non-communicable diseases, with a special interest in cognition. Winners will receive financial support for attending future conferences to present the work and journal article submission or publication costs.
Interested applicants must submit an individual research proposal and a CV by Friday, April 17, 2026. Proposals should be between 1-2 pages in length, excluding references.
Additional details and the call for applications are on our website. For questions about the hackathon and the application process, please contact hackathon@g2aging.org.
NIH Issues Request for Information on Draft Proposal Harmonizing Research Participant Data Policies
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is requesting public input on its proposal to establish harmonized and transparent policy requirements for protecting human participant research data. Specifically, NIH proposes to:
- Establish policy requirements for which data should be controlled-access under NIH data sharing policies, and
- Revise the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy to simplify and harmonize requirements.
The full proposal can be found here. Stakeholders are invited to provide feedback on the policy proposals as described in the request for information. Comments must be submitted electronically at https://osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form-draft-nih-controlled-access-data-policy-and-proposed-revisions-to-nih-genomic-data-sharing-policy/.
Responses will be accepted through March 4, 2026.
Additional Context regarding the Request for Information can be found at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-023.html.
Questions may be sent to SciencePolicy@od.nih.gov
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