Chicago Annual Workshop on Biomeasures Collection
in Population-Based Health and Aging Research
Advanced Modeling Issues in Integrated Biopsychosocial Research-in-Progress Seminar
May 23, 2008 (held adjacent to American Psychological Society Annual Meeting)
At the Gleacher Center, The University of Chicago
This working focus group meeting was coordinated by CCBAR with NIA
colleagues, Thomas McDade, Teresa Seeman and Noreen Goldman
.
The goal of the meeting was to "pilot" a small working group seminar
format for future biomeasure workshops and to identify key topics,
themes and speakers for the 2009 and 2010 agendas. CCBAR, NIA and Centers on Aging Biomarker Network Biodemography Focus Session
April 17, 2008 (held
adjacent to the Population Association of America Annual Meeting)
New Orleans, LA
This working focus group meeting was coordinated with NIA
colleagues, Thomas Mcdade (Northwestern University, Cells to Society,
The Center on Social Disparities and Health) Eileen Crimmins (USC/UCLA
Center on Biodemography and Population Health) and the NIA Centers on
Aging Biomarker Network
Nearly 30 attendees (several more attended than expected) represented
NIH, Aging or Demography Centers across the US, and biosocial survey
research teams from South Africa and Mexico. The meeting attendees
discussed future directions for biodemography research (harmonizing
methods and assays across studies (international challenges),
biobanking, new minimally invasive technologies, research ethics, and
analytic challenges) and, specifically, how future meetings and
interactions can best meet needs of advanced researchers in the field
(networking, participation of senior and junior researchers, time for
more in-depth presentations with discussion, participation of NIH
staff). Meeting notes.5th
Annual Chicago Biomeasures Workshop "Global
Trends in Integrated Health and Aging Research: An International
Gathering of Population-Based Health and Aging Researchers"
June 14th-15th (Thursday-Friday), 2007
At the Gleacher Center, The University of Chicago
Sponsored by CCBAR, The Chicago Core on Biomarkers in
Population-Based Aging Research at the Center on Demography and
Economics of Aging, Population Research Center and MacLean Center for
Clinical Medical Ethics at The University of Chicago, in
collaboration with the National Institute on Aging.
The primary aim
of this Workshop was to bring together senior social science and
biomedical researchers engaged in integrated, population-based health
research around the world. Integrated research, in our
definition, combines social and biophysiological or physical
environment variables to explain health-related outcomes. Think
translation between bench and bedside where the bedside is the study
participant’s home (in vivo, human-level biomedical research).4th Annual Chicago Biomarker Workshop
June 8th & 9th, 2006
At the Gleacher Center, The University of Chicago
Sponsored by CCBAR: The Chicago Core on Biomarkers in
Population-Based Aging Research at the Center on Aging, The University
of Chicago and NORC.
The 4th annual Chicago Biomarker Workshop "Biomarkers of Social and
Health Behavior: Social Influences and Biological Processes" was
held
June 8th and June 9th, 2006 at the Gleacher Center,
The University of Chicago.3rd Annual Chicago Biomarker Workshop
June 9th & 10th, 2005
At the Gleacher Center, The University of Chicago
Sponsored by CCBAR: The Chicago Core on Biomarkers in
Population-Based Aging Research at the Center on Aging, NORC and the
University of Chicago and "Cells to Society": The IPR Center on Social
Disparities and Health, Northwestern
University
The 3rd annual Chicago Workshop on Biomarker Collection in
Population-Based Health and Aging Research was held
Thursday, June 9th and Friday, June 10th, 2005 at the Gleacher Center,
The University of Chicago.
The 2005 workshop discussed the following topics:
- updates on new technologies in biomarker collection in population-based research;
- discussion of lessons learned from the implementation of new
biomarkers in recent population-based studies;
- exploration of different methods of analysis for integrated social and biological datasets, including what theoretical and statistical models are most useful and how to link social and biological analytic methods.