Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA)

Organization(s)

Duke University

Center Personnel

Center Director: Scott M Lynch
Lead Admin: Bernie Fischer

 

Mission

CPHA is centered on three major intellectual themes in the overlapping areas of Biodemography & Biosocial Demography, Social Disparities in Health across the life-course, and Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality and Health. CPHA supports junior faculty research and offers extramural grant application and development support. The Center funds promising pilot projects and provides mentoring and hands-on research experience for graduate students and postdoctoral associates.

Cores

  1. Administrative And Research Support Core (Scott M Lynch)
  2. Development Core (Tyson Brown)
  3. Communications And Dissemination Core (Avshalom Caspi)
  4. External Network Core (Herman Pontzer): Population Ecology, Aging, And Health Network (PEcAHN)

Emerging Scholars