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Women make up over half of the U.S. population, yet research on women’s health conditions, including those that are female specific, more common among women, or affect women differently, is severely lacking. To address this, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health tasked the National Academies with convening a committee […]
UPCOMING WEBINAR Strategies to Enhance Pediatric Health Research Funded by NIH A National Academies consensus study committee will host a public webinar on improving pediatric research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The webinar will highlight the NIH's pediatric research portfolio and structure, and explore opportunities to build child health research support. Discussions will […]
We would like to invite you 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 third town hall will be on December 10. What is the GECC? The Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC) is an NIA-funded initiative that brings together research experts […]
The CNSTAT Fall Seminar will feature the recent report, Creating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth, highlighting progress on implementing the report’s recommendations. The seminar will include updates from federal agencies on improving estimates of the distributions of income, consumption, and saving, pilot projects creating new data and statistics, […]
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) are a collection of neurodegenerative conditions that can cause cognitive impairment and ultimately lead to the development of clinical dementia. These diseases pose a significant physical, emotional, and financial burden on individuals, families, and communities all around the world. Accelerating the development of effective strategies for preventing and treating […]
Pam Herd will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Pam Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, […]
CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Irene Bloemraad (Univ. of British Columbia) & Jenny Van Hook (Penn State Univ.) How do we nurture a creative, vibrant and skilled new generation of researchers? And how do we accomplish this while also plugging the “leaky” pipeline that sees a disproportionate number of women and people of color leave academia […]
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) presents significant challenges in prevention and treatment despite decades of research advancements. Innovative AI/ML approaches enable analysis of real-world data sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs) and longitudinal multimodal data to derive insights without the constraints of predefined selection criteria. Recent developments in integrative heterogeneous graph databases enable the synthesis of […]
Women’s empowerment, population dynamics, and socioeconomic development have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. However, attempts to reconcile these perspectives and apply a holistic view to the relationships among these concepts have been rare, and this lack of consensus limits the extent to which these concepts can be applied toward accomplishing global […]
Marissa Thompson is an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of racial and socioeconomic inequality, with an emphasis on understanding the role of education in shaping disparate outcomes over the life-course. Marissa’s current research investigates, for example, parental preferences regarding school segregation, the causal effects of […]
Now in its fourth year, the SBE COVID Coordinating Center’s pilot project grants program addresses COVID-19's impact on health disparities and vulnerable populations, fosters new collaborations across research teams, and engages new researchers with the work of the consortium. In this session, three pilot project grant recipients will present findings from their projects related to […]
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