Center for Population Health and Aging

Overall PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Duke Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA) will continue to support an interdisciplinary environment to develop faculty in aging research and to foster important scientific scholarship within our three themes, which include (1) the biodemography and biosocial demography of aging, (2) social disparities in health and well-being across the life span, and (3) intergenerational consequences and transmission of health and longevity. CPHA activities will be supported by an infrastructure consisting of four integrated cores: (A) a strong Administrative and Research Support Core that provides central clerical, technical, event planning and research support services including pre- and post-award grants and project management; (B) a Development Core that sponsors (i) a peer-reviewed pilot research program and an accompanying mentorship program designed to assist emerging scholars in obtaining extramural funding for innovative and important topics, (ii) a seminar series that brings invited experts from around the world to present their research and interact with students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty scholars of the center, (iii) a monthly student seminar in which graduate students at all stages, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty receiving pilots present their work and are offered feedback from CPHA associates, and (iv) regular computational and statistical training workshops for students and faculty affiliates; (C) a Communications and Dissemination Core that coordinates all aspects of announcing and reporting on CPHA activities to CPHA associates, internal Duke units and administrators, the scientific community, the P30 Coordinating Center, the Association of Population Centers, the NIA, and the public; and (D) an External Network Core that maintains and expands a network of scholars throughout North Carolina, the region and beyond whose focus is on rural health disparities.