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

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

NIA Staff Contact:

Georgeanne E. Patmios, M.A.
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