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The Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was founded in 1999 by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). This award (P30 AG017266) made possible the formal organization of activities that already existed on campus, including data collection as well as substantive and methodological research on aging. Over the years CDHA built a dynamic training and research program that rests on a strong interdisciplinary foundation and easily adapts to new discoveries and developments.

CDHA Research Themes

  • Midlife development and aging
  • Economics of population aging
  • Inequalities in health and aging
  • International comparative studies of population aging
  • Investigation of linkages between social-demographic and biomedical research in population aging

CDHA's Major Surveys

  • Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)
  • National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)
  • Health, Wellbeing and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean (SABE)
  • The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)
  • Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions (PREHCO)
  • Wisconsin Assets and Income Studies (WAIS)

Announcements

Events

  • Weekly Training Seminar

    CDHA's weekly training seminar on the University of Wisconsin campus provides training and profession development to graduate students in the demography of health and aging.

    • Friday, May 3
    Acceptance Journeys: A Social Marketing Campaign to Reduce HIV/AIDS among MSM of Color in Milwaukee, WI
    Shawnika Hull, UW School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Population Health

    Friday, May 10
    Evolution of the Human Lifespan: Past, Present, and Future
    Caleb Finch, University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology

  • Special Events

    Other seminars and meetings relating to health and aging at UW-Madison.

Please send questions, comments or suggestions to cdhadata@ssc.wisc.edu.
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