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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:

1. 1. 1. Establish policy requirements for which data should be controlled-access under NIH data sharing policies, and
      2. 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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During the October 2024 Council, the NIA approved the concept “Institutional Research Training Award for AD/ADRD And Aging Research in Low – and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)”. You can read more about this approved concepts, as well as others on the NIA Approved Concepts webpage.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications in response to PAR-25-213, implementation research that aims to improve the availability of effective, equitable, efficient, integrated, patient-centered, safe, and timely care for people living with multiple long-term conditions (non-communicable disease (NCD) multimorbidity) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and/or within American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations in the United States. The next application deadline for this program is Wednesday, November 5, 2025.

The Gateway to Global Aging Data and Social Science and Medicine invite submissions for a conference and special issue dedicated to interdisciplinary research studying how education influences health and ageing globally. Submissions of extended abstracts are due March 31, 2025, and the conference will take place in Boston, Massachusetts from September 4-5, 2025. Please review the detailed call for submissions for more information.

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 Friday, February 14, 2025.

The University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation announces an open postdoctoral position to work with Dr. Emily Briceno. The Primary Project (NIH/NIA RF1AG088009) will be the Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Cross-national longitudinal prognosis and risk factors. An accepted applicant would ideally start Winter 2025 or earlier, but a flexible start date can be accommodated. Please review the job summary for more information.

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 [PDF]

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 9th, the second will be November 4th, and the final town hall will be December 10th. GECC Town Hall Information [PDF].

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.