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.

You are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the 2025 Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs. The workshop will be held virtually on Friday, March 7, 2025. Please find further information on the workshop in the attached call. One page abstracts should be submitted by November 1, 2024 to ceda@berkeley.edu. This workshop is jointly sponsored by the NIA-supported Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging at UC Berkeley and the Center on Biodemography and Population Health at USC. We look forward to your submissions. Call for Abstracts

Hello! You’re invited to help shape research priorities related to aging and dementia at one of our upcoming virtual town halls hosted by the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center. Our first town hall will be on October 9^th, with others hosted throughout the rest of the year. GECC Town Hall Information

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

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.