The USC Leonard Davis School abounds with innovative and important Institutes and Centers. Breakthroughs in our laboratories are being implemented into real-world applications. Our work is changing lives.
Institutes and Centers
The USC Leonard Davis School abounds with innovative and important Institutes and Centers. Breakthroughs in our laboratories are being implemented into real-world applications. Our work is changing lives.
Airpoll Brain Group
The AirPollBrain (APB) Group aims to promote the optimal neurodevelopment in humans and healthy brain aging by better understanding environmental effects of urban air pollution and gene-environment interactions. Taking a multi-disciplinary research, APB addresses effects of environmental pollution on the brain across the lifespan.
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
The Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at USC is supported by the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on memory problems and aging.
Center for Global Aging
The Center on Global Aging conducts and promotes research on how aging can vary around the world due to social and economic contexts, changes in health, and policies and programs to support aging persons. Topics of interest include physiological aging, health, well-being, caregiving, labor force participation, migration, use of services, family interaction, and social integration.
Center for Lifespan Health
The Center for Lifespan Health works to create multiple institutional resources to advance lifespan health research, along with various existing nonprofit partners including the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
Fall Prevention Center of Excellence
The Fall Prevention Center of Excellence (FPCE), based at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, is dedicated to promoting aging in place and independent living for persons of all ages and abilities.
Family Caregiver Support Center
The USC Family Caregiver Support Center (FCSC) at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology has placed a high priority on providing support across the continuum of caregiving, including diagnosis, prognosis, services that help maintain the care recipient’s independence and abilities, helping caregivers care for themselves, and manage their own well-being.
The Longevity Institute
The Longevity Institute catalyzes multidisciplinary approaches to translate aging research into interventions that maximize the healthy lifespan. Scientists and clinicians work together to identify and test dietary, pharmacological, regenerative, and engineering approaches to prevent multiple diseases of aging and maximize healthspan. The Institute focuses on projects that can be rapidly translated into patient wellness as well as projects that have long-term goals.
Ney Center for Healthspan Science
The Ney Center for Healthspan Science is designed to be a hub of multidisciplinary exploration into the biological, demographic and psychosocial aspects of aging. It leverages the school’s uniquely wide-ranging expertise in investigating the science of aging and implementing innovations to help people live with purpose, safety and security.
USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health
The USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH) is a multisite center located at the Andrus Gerontology Center of the University of Southern California and the Program in Geriatric Medicine in the School of Medicine of the University of California at Los Angeles. The primary purpose of the CBPH is to provide a synergistic research environment for the integration and translation of research findings from a variety of disciplines to understand population health.
USC-Buck Nathan Shock Center
The USC-Buck Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging is a new and fully integrated multi-institutional center focused on training the next generation of geroscientists and providing access to cutting-edge geroscience technologies to investigators across the nation.
The USC Center for Elder Justice
The USC Center for Elder Justice brings together the existing and wide-ranging elder mistreatment expertise at USC — in medicine, gerontology, health services, psychology, and policy — as well as encourages new partnerships in biology, genetics, biodemography, economics, law, neuroscience, allied health, biostatistics, and social work.
