Upcoming Events

Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs

February 23, 2024 – Virtual (zoom)

A workshop co-sponsored by the UC-Berkeley Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging-CEDA (William Dow) and the USC/UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health-CBPH (Eileen Crimmins, Teresa Seeman, Jennifer Ailshire and Steve Cole)

Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 1, 2023

This is the 7th annual workshop designed to share leading research methods and findings on comparative patterns and determinants of adult mortality, morbidity, and healthy aging in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We welcome both LMIC-specific studies as well as comparisons with high-income countries.

The goal is to build a robust evidence base for understanding the drivers of cross-national adult health patterns, especially in populations with unusually high or low adult mortality. The expanded availability of longitudinal HRS-type surveys in LMICs makes this an opportune time to gather a network of researchers using such data to study adult health patterns and determinants, in order to share innovative methods, new results, and ideas for the most promising research agenda going forward.

We solicit presentations of papers using data from one or more LMICs, particularly from longitudinal harmonized HRS family studies (see https://g2aging.org) such as those in Brazil (ELSI), China (CHARLS), Costa Rica (CRELES), Ghana (SAGE), Korea (KLoSA), India (LASI), Indonesia (IFLS), Mexico (MHAS), and South Africa (HAALSI). We also welcome papers using other LMIC micro-data, e.g. from Taiwan (SEBAS), China (CLHLS), and elsewhere, as well as comparisons with data from higher income countries such as the US (HRS), Japan (JSTAR or NUJLSOA), England (ELSA), Europe (SHARE), etc.

We invite one-page abstracts of papers to be considered for presentation.

We invite one-page abstracts of papers to be considered for presentation. Please submit by November 1 to ceda@berkeley.edu. For inquiries about topical areas, please contact Will Dow wdow@berkeley.edu and Eileen Crimmins crimmin@usc.edu.

Past CBPH Events

Workshop on Determinants on Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs

February 24, 2023
8:30am to 2:30pm PST
Virtual: Zoom format

A virtual workshop co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) and the USC/UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH)

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Social Genomics – Gene Expression Workshop

Date: September 12-13, 2022
Location: UCLA Luskin Conference Center

Instructor: Steve Cole, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences,
Director of the Social Genomics Laboratory
The University of California, Los Angeles
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
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Virtual Comparative Workshop on Adult Mortality Determinants in Low and Middle-Income Countries

February 25, 2022 via Zoom

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Past Biomarker Network Events

Remote Biomarker Collection in the COVID-19 Era: Strategies for respondent self-collection

Oct 27, 2020 | 11am-12pm PDT via Zoom

Agenda

  • Introduction & Background
  • Overview of remote blood collection strategies
    • Presenter: Steve Cole
    • Dried blood spots (mailable self-draw kits; HemaSpot HF/SE/HD)
    • Microfluidic samplers (Tasso OnDemand, TAP 2nd Gen)
    • Logistics & infrastructure (mailing/transport, self-collection instructions/videos, participant support, regulatory issues, logistics services)
  • Suggestions for Self-Collection of Dried Blood Spots
    • Presenters: Heather McCreath & Jessica Crocker
  • Optimizing self-collected blood samples
    • Presenter: Steve Cole
    • Sample collection protocols, with tips & tricks for both DBS & microfluidics
    • Customized instruction videos, Zoom “call centers”/”office hours”
  • Analytic performance: what works, and what doesn’t
    • Presenter: Steve Cole
    • Correspondence of DBS / microfluidic samples to venipuncture “gold standard”
    • Issues to manage (sample volume, humidity, temperature)
    • Interpretive caveats (SNR/power adjustment, LLD, fragile/untrustworthy analytes, venous vs capillary blood)
    • Experienced assay labs (volume, system-level QC)
  • Temperature control
    • Presenter: Jessica Faul
    • Cold-chain maintenance (Health & Retirement Study salivary antibody example)
    • Logistics services (e.g., UPS Healthcare)
  • Q&A 
  • Adjourn

Virtual NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Sessions

June 16, 19 & 22, 2020

Virtual Biomarker Network Meeting | Day One Recording

June 16, 2020 via Zoom

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Virtual Biomarker Network Meeting | Day Two Recording

June 19, 2020 via Zoom

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Virtual Biomarker Network Meeting | Day Three

June 22, 2020 via Zoom

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Ongoing Events

The Multidisciplinary Colloquium Series in Aging

The Multidisciplinary Colloquium in Aging is a series of lectures presented by nationally and internationally recognized scholars in the field of aging. There are generally 5-6 lectures per semester given in this series.

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