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
The Gateway to Global Aging Data and SHARE are cohosting a user conference in Berlin on November 6-8, 2024, and requesting submissions by July 15 on a broad range of topics, especially cross-country work on health, aging, and retirement. Learn more here: g2aging.org/share-gateway-conference
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
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