New and Noteworthy

• PRB Research Materials

  The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) produces a range of materials featuring research conducted at the NIA Demography Centers. A full list of newsletters, webcasts and other articles is available on the Today's Research on Aging page; you can receive updates directly from the Population Reference Bureau by subscribing to the e-newsletter.

  Recent items:
  

  • HIV/AIDS and Older Adults in the United States (PDF) (Today's Research on Aging, Issue 18, December 2009)
  • Marriage is Good for Your Health (Online discussion with Linda Waite, November 2009)
  • HIV/AIDS and Older Persons in the Developing World (Webcast of interview with John Knodel, November 2009)
  • Public Policy, Financial Decisions and the Health of Older Adults (Based on David Laibson's presentation at the NIA Demography Centers 15th Anniversary Gala, Rand Summer Institute, July 2009)
  • Aging, Family Structure, and Health (Based on Linda Waite's presentation at the NIA Demography Centers 15th Anniversary Gala, Rand Summer Institute, July 2009)
  • Overview of the NIA Demography Centers (Research Highlights in the Demography and Economics of Aging, No. 12, November 2009)



• NIH - Advancing the Science of Behavior Change

  The NIH meeting on the science of behavior change, held June 15 to 16, 2009, in Bethesda, Maryland, represented the coalescing of efforts to help the NIH shape an exciting new research agenda for a cross-NIH, cross-disciplinary initiative on the basic science of behavior change.

  A summary of the meeting has now been published.

• Interviews Online!

  The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has posted a series of interviews on aging and health:

  Linda Waite:

  Health Effect of Marriage and Other Social Relationships

  Waite is the Lucy Flower Professor in Urban Sociology, director of the Center on Aging at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP).

  
  Samuel Preston

  The Effect of Smoking on Trends in U.S Mortality at Older Ages

  Preston is the Fredrick J. Warren professor of demography, Population Aging Research Center, at the University of Pennsylvania. In the 1970s, Preston produced a landmark study, "Older Male Mortality and Cigarette Smoking," on the effects of smoking on mortality patterns.

  Eileen Crimmins

  U.S. Adult Mortality and Health Trends in an International Context

  Crimmins is the Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and Sociology. Demography of older populations, health and mortality. Director of Training, Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology.

• Today's Research on Aging

  Today's Research on Aging is an e-newsletter series from the Population Reference Bureau intended to increase awareness of research results and their application to major public and private decisionmaking. Webcasts and e-newsletters based on research conducted at the NIA P30 Centers on the Demography of Aging can be found on the Today's Research on Aging page on the PRB website.

• PRB Discuss Online

  PRB Discuss Online is a feature of the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) website that gives you "live online" access to experts from PRB and elsewhere to answer your questions about noteworthy and newsworthy population, health, and environment topics, trends, and issues.

  June 24, 2009: Global Aging and Economic Development. Discussant: David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population Harvard School of Public Health

• NIA Demography Centers - Publications

  The Center Publications Page contains Links to publications and other resources of NIA P30 Centers on the Demography of Aging.

• CCBAR Newsletter: April-May 2009

  The April-May 2009 newletter of the Chicago Core on Biomarkers in Population-Based Aging Research (CCBAR) is now available online. Backissues are also available on the website.

• Proceedings: Chicago Workshop on Biomarkers in Population-Based Health and Aging Research

  The proceedings of Chicago Workshop on Biomarkers in Population-Based Health and Aging Research, held June 8 & 9, 2006, are now available online.

  The Workshop was sponsored by the Chicago Center on Demography and Economics of Aging, with the generous assistance of the National Institutes of Health, grant 2P30AG012857.

• The Center on Aging's Biomarker's Core has it's own web site, CCBAR. Click http://biomarkers.uchicago.edu/

• Regarding submission of final manuscripts to PubMed Central (PMC) as requested under the NIH Public Access Policy: Effective May 2, 2005, PMC will provide a secure web site that will allow authors to log in, deposit, and manage final manuscripts. Please visit http://www.nihms.nih.gov/ to obtain the most up-to-date information on submission policies.