Center for Demography of Health and Aging

The Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) at the University of Wisconsin - Madison is one of thirteen P30 demography centers on aging sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. Major research themes include: midlife development and aging, economics of population aging, inequalities in health and aging, and international comparative studies of health and aging. For additional and updated information on CDHA, browse the links in the titlebar (at the top of the page) or send email to cdha@ssc.wisc.edu.

IFA's 9th Global Conference on Ageing Update
(May 7, 2008)
IFA's 9th Global Conference on Ageing will be held on September 4-7, 2008, in the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Canada. Abstract deadlines have now been extended to May 30, 2008 ...(Read more)

RWJ Dissertation Grants
(May 7, 2008)
The Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of Wisconsin is sponsoring another campus-wide competition for Population Health Dissertation Grants. Application due date is May 30, 2008...(Read more)

RWJ Course Development Grants
(May 7, 2008)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program at the UW-Madison
is sponsoring a campus-wide competition for course development grants. Application due date is May 12, 2008...(Read more)

Aging in Wisconsin Conference
(May 7, 2008)
The Aging in Wisconsin Conference will be held on September 4-5, 2008 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin...(Read more)

TILDA Health in Aging Conference
(April 17, 2008)
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (TILDA) health conference will take place on May 29-30, 2008 in Dublin, Ireland...(Read more)

UW La Follette Spring 2008 Symposium
(April 17, 2008)
The topic of this symposium is Health Care Payment Reform and Pay-for-Performance in Wisconsin: How to Promote System Transformation (and What Not to Do). It will be held at the Monona Terrace Convention Center on Tuesday, April 29, 2008...(Read more)

NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival
(April 4, 2008)
The National Institutes of Health will hold a National Graduate Student Research Festival on September 11-12, 2008 in Bethesda, Maryland. The application deadline is May 15, 2008...(Read more)

NIA Job Openings
(March 28, 2008)
The National Institute on Aging/NIH is recruiting for 2 Health Scientist Administrators to be responsible for the scientific peer review of grant applications in the behavioral and social sciences...(Read more)

Public Presentations on Health Disparities
(March 20, 2008)
The UW Comprehensive Cancer Center has announced three public presentations given by their visiting scholars of Cancer Health Disparities Initiative (CHDI) this spring...(Read more)

NIH Issues Revised Public Access Policy
(January 15, 2008)
NIH has revised its policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research to mandatory effective April 7, 2008...(Read more)

NIH Supplement Grants
(January 14, 2008)
NIH has issued three Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to invite NIH-funded investigators to submit supplement applications to their currently funded research to study how interactions among genetic and behavioral/social factors influence health and disease. Letters of Intent are due on April 13, 2008 and full proposals on May 13, 2008...(Read more)

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Adjustment to Retirement: A Model Test Based on Longitudinal Data
Bettina Kubicek and Christian Korunka
University of Vienna, Economic Psychology, Educational Psychology, and Evaluation
2:30-4:00 PM, 8108 William H. Sewell Social Science Building