Chicago Annual Workshop on Biomeasures Collection
in Population-Based Health and Aging Research
7th Workshop on Biomeasures Collection in Population-Based Health Research "Biosocial Study of Health and Aging in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and HIV-Affected Populations"
October 17, 2013
At The University Club of Chicago, Downtown Chicago
The Chicago Core on Biomeasures in Population-Based Health and Aging Research (CCBAR) at the NORC University of Chicago Center on Demography and Economics of Aging hosted a fall conference entitled "Biosocial Study of Health and Aging in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and HIV-Affected Populations" on Thursday, October 17th, 2013 from 7:30am to 4pm at the University Club of Chicago in downtown Chicago. Karen Fredricksen-Goldsen, PhD, Director of the Institute for Multigenerational Health at the School of Social Work, University of Washington gave the keynote lecture.
6th Annual Chicago Biomeasures Conference "Biosocial Approaches to the Study of Urban Health and Aging"
October 25, 2011
At the Gleacher Center, The University of Chicago
The Chicago Core on Biomeasures in Population-Based Health and Aging Research (CCBAR) at the NORC University of Chicago Center on Demography and Economics of Aging hosted a fall conference entitled "Biosocial and Communication Technology-Based Approaches to Urban Health and Aging" on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 from 7:30am to 5pm at the Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago. Rose Anne Kenny, MD, PI of the innovative Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing presented an outstanding keynote lecture. Please contact Pleasant Radford (pradford@babies.bsd.uchicago.edu) if you have questions. For the 2011 annual workshop, we aimed to
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Understand state of the art research in urban health
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Become familiarized with cutting edge biosocial measures that advance research on urban health and health disparities
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Identify approaches and models for community engagement that will inform best practices in community-engaged biosocial 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
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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.