Center for Demography of Health and Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：这是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校健康与老龄人口统计学中心（CDHA）继续支持的申请。CDHA的总体目标是维持和改善健康和老龄人口学方面的主要研究和培训计划。CDHA的体制结构旨在建立社会人口学、生物医学和流行病学对健康和老龄化的研究之间的联系。 CDHA正在进行的和发展中的研究活动的主要主题包括：（1）晚年健康和福祉的早期和中年决定因素;（2）老龄化轨迹的社会经济和种族差异;（3）老龄化的比较分析;（4）老龄化的经济和社会方面，包括财富积累，退休，劳动力，转移和晚年事件和行为;和（5）生物人口学，包括生物标志物、基因-环境相互作用和微生物组的数据收集和分析工作。CDHA是文学与科学学院内的一个自治研究单位，与人口与生态中心共存。因此，它共享和扩展了在管理，计算设施数据库和地理信息系统设施方面发展良好的研究基础设施。CDHA的行政核心（A）为整个中心提供领导和行政支持，特别是核心B的活动。该计划的发展核心（B）支持教师，工作人员和研究助理从事创新，高风险的试点研究项目，有可能导致重大NIA支持。外部创新网络核心（C）将继续为老龄人口学研究提供非常成功和受欢迎的网络化当前认识服务，并支持定期研讨会，会议和访问。外部研究资源核心（D）支持开发方便用户的工具，以编制和分析健康和老龄人口方面的大规模公共数据资源。统计数据飞地核心（E）开发在安全条件下分析敏感数据的设施，并将与将在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校校园内建立的最先进的RDC设施集成。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for continuing support of the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The overall goal of CDHA is to sustain and improve a major research and training program in the demography of health and aging. The institutional architecture of CDHA is designed to create links between social demography, biomedical and epidemiological research on health and aging. Major themes of ongoing and developmental research activities within CDHA include (1) Early and mid-life determinants of late-life health and well-being; (2) Socioeconomic and ethnic disparities of aging trajectories; (3) Comparative analysis of aging; (4) Economic and social aspects of aging, including wealth accumulation, retirement, labor force, transfers and late life events and behaviors; and (5) Biodemography, including data collection and analytical work with biomarkers, gene-environment interactions and the microbiome. CDHA is an autonomous research unit within the College of Letters and Science where it coexists with the Center for Demography and Ecology. It thus shares and extends a well-developed research infrastructure in administration, computing facilities data library, and GIS facilities. CDHA's administrative Core (A) provides leadership and administrative support for the Center as a whole, particularly for activities of Core B. The program development Core (B) supports faculty, staff, and research assistants engaged in innovative, high-risk pilot research projects that are likely to lead to major NIA support. The external innovative network Core (C) will continue a highly successful and popular, networked current awareness service for research in the demography of aging and support regular workshops, conferences, and visits. The external research resources Core (D) support the development of user-friendly tools for the preparation and analysis of large-scale public data resources in the demography of health and aging. The statistical data enclave Core (E) develops facilities for the analysis of sensitive data under secure conditions and will become integrated with a state-of-the art RDC facility that will be established on the UW-Madison campus.