Organisation
Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Research centre on ageing issues
The overall research themes of PARC include:
- Health, disease, and mortality at older ages, incorporating period and cohort risks and their biologic mechanisms
- Domestic and international perspectives on well-being at older ages, emphasizing life-cycle decision-making and old-age financial security
- Networks as mechanisms of diffusion, vectors of disease risk, systems of resource distribution, matrices of socialsupport and exchange, and instruments for interventions and health policy
- Social, economic, environmental, and behavioural aspects of HIV and chronic diseases in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Innovative analytic methodologies for collecting and analyzing biomarkers and genetic materials (SNP), data collection stragies to improve data quality and reliability, and use of fMRIs for styding motivations
Topics
Contact Details
239 McNeil Building
, 3718 Locust Walk
, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298
