Center for Demography of Health and Aging

Projects

There are six major surveys associated with CDHA. CDHA also provides pilot grant support for new faculty development and for faculty, staff, and research assistants engaged in innovative pilot projects that are likely to lead to major NIA support. Our affiliates' research projects on health and aging can be search in a project database.

CDHA Major Surveys

Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)
National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)
(This zip file contains NSFH wave 1 data in raw ASCII format and SAS statement file. It was created from BADGIR server.)
Health, Wellbeing and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean (SABE)
Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)
Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions (PREHCO)
Wisconsin Assets and Income Studies (WAIS)

Pilot Projects:

CDHA provides support for innovative pilot projects to affiliates. To learn more about pilot funding at CDHA, please review these guidelines.

2013-2014 (Link to Pilot Project Abstract)

Biological Risk Profiles in the Elderly Mexican Population at the Turn of the 21st Century
PI: Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Research Scientist, CDHA and Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Identification of Gene Environment Interactions in Cognitive Decline
PI: Coreen Engelman, Assistant Professor, Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Genotype-phenotype Associations and Genetic Risk of Aging: Health, Reproductive, Mental Health and Cognitive Phenotypes
PI: Marsha Mailick, Director, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Political Participation of Older Americans: the Role of Social and Genetic Factors
PIs: Donald Moynihan, Professor, LaFollette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Barry Burden, Professor, Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jason Fletcher, Associate Professor, LaFollette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison

The Impact of the Economic Recession on the Health and Wellbeing of Elderly Adults
PIs: F. Javier Nieto, Chair,Population and Health Sciences University of Wisconsin - Madison
Alberto Palloni, Samuel Preston Professor, Sociology

Pilot Projects from previous years: 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, and 2012-2013