Check out the Fall 2019 ASI Newsletter to see what has been going on.
Jennifer Karas Montez was awarded a R24 grant from the NIH National Institute of Aging. The R24 mechanism provides infrastructure support for advancing specific high-priority areas of behavioral and social research of relevance to aging. These are highly competitive 5-year grants, awarded to only 7 teams across the country.
Jennifer is the Co-PI on a renewal of the highly successful NIA R24 Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America. the purpose of this Network is to stimulate research and disseminate data and analytic resources to better understand trends and disparities in U.S. adult health and longevity across the life course and different geographic contexts.
https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/stories/Sociologists_Karas_Montez_and_Monnat_earn_NIH_grants/
Madonna Harrington Meyer was a featured guest on Wharton Business School radio program and podcast Work and Life with Stew Friedman.
http://www.workandlifepodcast.com/blog/madonna-harrington-meyer
https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/episodes/work-and-life-august-13-2019/
Merril Silverstein, Marjorie Cantor Professor of Aging Studies, is the recipient of the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging and the Life Course. This annual award honors a scholar in the field of aging and the life course who has shown exceptional achievement in research, theory, policy analysis, or who has otherwise advanced knowledge of aging and the life course.
The Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award in Population Health recognizes significant contributions to population health science by individuals early in their careers. The award emphasizes contributions that integrate insights from multiple disciplines contributing distinct bodies of knowledge to the challenge of understanding and addressing population health issues.
The excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Award honors faculty members whose dedication to graduate students and commitment to excellence in graduate teaching, mentoring, and career preparation have made a significant contribution to graduate education and Syracuse University.
Doug Wolf attended the 5th International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-Term Care, which was held at Vienna University last September. The video clip below features a portion of his plenary speech (among other highlights), which opened the conference. The subject of his presentation was the balance between public and private – or, equally, between government-funded and family-provided – personal-care services, mainly in the case of older people living at home.
To view the video click here
Maria Brown was interviewed by Brian Levenson on the Intentional Performers podcast. On the podcast Brown discusses her anything but normal upbringing and the trials and tribulations she has faced.
To hear the podcast go to: Maria Brown on A Defiant Journey
Congratulations to Jennifer Karas Montez, Doug Wolf and Shannon Monnat on their recently awarded grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a project entitled “Local Initiatives, State Preemption, and Public Health.”
The aim of this project is to elucidate for which demographic groups, and in which types of communities, state preemption policies have facilitated or undermined the creation of healthier more equitable lives and communities. Using county-level health data from multiple sources and rigorous causal analysis methods, we will identify links between two domains of state preemption laws – labor/economic resources (minimum wages; paid leave) and the physical environment (hydraulic fracking; pesticide use) – and several infant and adult health outcomes that are likely to exhibit near-term responses to preemption exposure. We will address three research questions: (1) To what extent do state preemption laws influence birth outcomes and working-age adult health behaviors and mortality from external causes? (2) For which demographic and geographic subgroups does preemption have disproportionate consequences? (3) Does preemption reduce or expand local inequities in birth outcomes and adult health? We will disseminate our findings through multiple academic, cross-sector, and public channels and make publicly available the preemption database that we will compile. By addressing a time-sensitive and rapidly-escalating upstream driver of health and its impact on social and geographic health inequities, we anticipate that the findings from this project will have significant, widespread, and enduring implications for population health levels and inequities.
