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.
Read the latest news on the HRS Around the World and network of longitudinal studies on aging here.
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Principal Investigator:
David Weir, PhD (U Michigan), Principal Investigator
Rose M Li, MBA, PhD (RLA), Project Manager
NOTES
Alden Gross (agross14@jhu.edu) and Jinkook Lee (jinkookl@usc.edu) are organizing a special issue in the American Journal of Epidemiology that focuses on cross-national issues in gerontology. Topics of papers are not limited to cognition and could include social, physical, mental, and other aspects of health. The Call for Papers is here: https://academic.oup.com/aje/pages/gerontology
Due date for papers is September 1, 2024, with likely some flexibility.
Kenneth Langa (klanga@med.umich.edu) and Minki Chatterji (minki.chatterji@nih.gov) are organizing a session on, “Preventing and Mitigating Dementia,” session #27 within “Theme 7: Health and Morbidity, at the 2025 International Population Conference (IPC2025), taking place in Brisbane, Australia, July 13-18, 2025. The deadline for abstract submission is September 15, 2024. See: https://iussp.org/en/ipc2025-now-open-submissions
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has introduced two new funding opportunities. The first, RFA-AG-25-025, supports short courses designed to advance cross-national analyses using data from the International Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP), also excluding clinical trials. The updated application deadline for this program is November 1, 2024. The second opportunity, RFA-AG-25-031, is a Small Research Grant Program aimed at emerging researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) focusing on aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD). Clinical trials are not permitted under this grant, with applications due by November 7, 2024.
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