Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging

The NIA’s Division of Behavioral and Social Research currently support eleven Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging, funded in September 2014 from RFA-AG-14-005. Centers support the infrastructure and pilot data necessary for larger research projects; the development of national and international networks of researchers; and the development of methods for the analysis of state-of-the art, often-longitudinal, social science data that contains complex, deeply-described phenotypes. The reach of these Centers is global, with almost all involved in international projects, helping to develop the fields of demography and economics of aging in many countries. The eleven currently-funded Centers focus on the following topics:

Chronic disease and disability
Aging, genetics, and social science
The role of social, economic, and behavioral determinants of health outcomes over the lifespan, and the interplay of socioeconomic and biological pathways
Transmission of health and longevity across generations
Health, work, and retirement
Health and financial well-being
The economics of health care provision for the elderly, including health care costs and productivity
Demographic and fiscal consequences of global aging
Global aging and patterns of disease, morbidity, and mortality
Comparative international research on aging

The currently-funded Demography and Economics of Aging Centers are:

Principal Investigator (PI)	Institution	Center
Bhattacharya, Jay	Stanford University	Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging
Bloom, David E.	Harvard School of Public Health	The Center for the Global Demography of Aging
Bound, John	University of Michigan	Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging
Crimmins, Eileen M.	University of Southern California	USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health
Dow, William H.	University of California, Berkeley	Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging
Elo, Irma T.	University of Pennsylvania	Center on the Demography of Aging
Hurd, Michael D.	RAND Corporation	RAND Center for the Study of Aging
Murray, Christopher J.L.	University of Washington	University of Washington Center for Demography and Economics of Aging
O'Rand, Angela M.	Duke University	Center for Population Health and Aging
Herd, Pamela	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Baicker, Katherine	National Bureau of Economic Research	NBER Center for Aging and Health Research

More information is available at the Centers’ website at http://agingcenters.org/ . From this site, you may also access the websites of the individual Centers.

NIA Staff Contact:

Georgeanne E. Patmios
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Aging
Division of Behavioral and Social Research
7201 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 3S600
Bethesda, MD 20892-9205
Phone: (301) 496-3136
Email Georgeanne Patmios