Links Between Health and Social and Economic Productivity
The factors that contribute to well-being are complex, dynamic, and inter-connected, reflecting experiences and decisions from the past as well as the present, and the embedding of individuals in household, family, and social structures. CPC faculty fellows collect and analyze longitudinal data because it provides information on experiences, time-use, relationships, and health status at multiple points over the life course, which can be harnessed to better understand the co-evolution of well-being and health, particularly at later stages of life.
Associated Current and Recently Completed Projects
Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health)
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently…
Add Health Epigenome Resource: Life course stressors and epigenomic modifications in adulthood
The overall goals of this project are to investigate the influence of life course psychosocial stressors on DNA methylation and gene expression that may influence cardiometabolic health and depression in a US representative study of young adults. The findings from this study will have significant…
Add Health GWAS Data: User Support and Research Tools to Enable Widespread Access
This project is developing tools to enable widespread access to and use of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data among respondents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). The intent is to make Add Health GWAS data more easily accessible, straightforward…
Add Health Parent Study
The Add Health Parent Study (AHPS) is designed to improve the understanding of the role that families play through socioeconomic channels in the health and wellbeing of the older, parent generation and that of their offspring. This unique data set supports the analyses of intergenerational…
Assessing The Impact of Neighborhood and Interpersonal Discrimination on Obesity and Leukocyte Gene Expression
Approximately 42% of adults in the United States (US) have obesity, with a disproportionately high prevalence in middle-aged and older adults. Individuals with obesity are at increased risk of many leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the US relative to individuals with a healthy…