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Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging

The Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging currently supports thirteen P30 Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging at leading universities and policy organizations around the U.S. The purpose of the Centers is to foster research in demography, economics and epidemiology of aging and to promote use of important datasets in the field. Key activities of the Centers include the following:

  • Workshops and Conferences
  • Newsletters and Reports
  • Web-Based Information and Resources
  • Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations
  • International Collaborations
  • Research on Aging
  • Pilot Projects on Innovative Topics
  • Data Resource Development
  • Statistical Enclaves for Sensitive Data
  • Methodological Research
  • Training Programs

The major research areas under study at the Centers are:

  • Demographics and Population Research
  • Biodemography, Longevity and Genetics
  • Population, Economic and Policy Forecasting
  • Health, Chronic Illness and Disability
  • Health Care and Health Policy
  • Income, Savings, Work and Retirement
  • Family Support Systems
  • Socioeconomic Status and Health
  • Minority Populations
  • Dementia/Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Comparative International Research
  • HIV/AIDS

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

Principal Investigator (PI) Center PI Address
Bloom, David E. Harvard University
665 Huntington Ave.
Bldg 1, 11th Floor
Boston, MA 02115
Bound, John University of Michigan
Population Studies Center - ISR
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
Crimmins, Eileen University of California at Los Angeles
Andrus Gerontology Center
3715 S. McClintock Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191
Garber, Alan M. Stanford University
Department of Medicine/PCOR
117 Encina Commons
Stanford, CA 94305-6019
Gilleskie, Donna B. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Economics CB #3305
06B Gardner Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3305
Hauser, Robert M. University of Wisconsin - Madison
4412 Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
Hayward, Mark D. Pennsylvania State University
601 Oswald Tower Insitute
University Park, PA 16802
Hurd, Michael D. RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
Lee, Ronald D. University of California at Berkeley
2232 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-2120
Paxson, Christina H. Princeton University
316 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Soldo, Beth J. University of Pennsylvania
239 McNeil Building
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298
Waite, Linda J. University of Chicago & National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
1155 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Wise, David A. National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

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. A March 2007 publication entitled “Research Highlights in the Demography and Economics of Aging” describes this Center program in more detail and contains contact information for the Center Directors. It is available at http://agingcenters.org/docs/rh10_NIADemographyCenters.pdf (PDF, 216K).

NIA Staff Contacts:

Georgeanne E. Patmios
Division of Behavioral and Social Research
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
7201 Wisconsin Avenue, #533
Bethesda, MD 20892-9205
Phone: (301) 496-3138
Fax: (301) 402-0051
Email: PatmiosG@nia.nih.gov		 John W. R. Phillips
Chief, Population and Social Processes Branch
Division of Behavioral and Social Research
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
7201 Wisconsin Avenue, #533
Bethesda, MD 20892-9205
Phone: (301) 496-3138
Fax: (301) 402-0051
Email: PhillipJ@nia.nih.gov
Page last updated Jan 09, 2009