UW-Madison CDHA

Wisconsin is at the center of emerging scientific field with answers to ‘nature vs. nurture’ Do people have a genetic destiny, or are they more shaped by their environment and lived experiences? Wisconsin is front and center in ending the classic “nature vs. nurture” debate.

📰CDHA affiliates Lauren Schmitz & Silvia Helena Barcellos featured in WPR "Wisconsin is at the center of emerging scientific field with answers to ‘nature vs. nurture’"
www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

Walking, public transit, and transitions to non-driving among US Medicare enrollees Many older adults rely on private vehicles for their mobility and may continue to drive when they are advised to stop. Walking and public transit can …

🚗New #publication from @cdeuw.bsky.social & CDHA affiliate Stephanie Robert in Journal of Transport & Health

➡️”Walking, public transit, and transitions to non-driving among US Medicare enrollees”

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UW professors discuss attacks on higher education, ‘fragility’ of U.S. democracy • Wisconsin Examiner "How do you get dozens, if not hundreds of institutions, to start acting collectively to push back against this?" asked Mark Copelevitch.

📚CDHA affiliate Barry Burden quoted in @wisconsinexaminer.com “UW professors discuss attacks on higher education, ‘fragility’ of U.S. democracy”

➡️Read more here: wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/28/u...

An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality - PubMed A growing literature investigates the levels, trends, causes, and effects of lifespan inequality. This work is typically based on measures that combine partial cohort histories into a synthetic cohort...

📚New #publication in @readdemography.bsky.social from @cdeuw.bsky.social and CDHA affiliate Héctor Pifarré Arolas

➡️”An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality”

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40162882/

App under development at UW could make it easier, more affordable to ‘age in place’ Using augmented reality, UW–Madison researchers are developing an app to improve the safety and quality of life for older adults who want to age in place.

📱CDHA affiliate Beth Fields quoted in UW-Madison News as she leads an ongoing project “App under development at UW could make it easier, more affordable to ‘age in place’”

➡️Read more here: news.wisc.edu/app-under-de...

Using National Survey Data to Estimate Healthcare Communication Disparities for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PubMed There are healthcare communication and satisfaction disparities between adults with and without IDD or other disabilities. Future research should characterise the size and exact nature of these dispar...

🧑‍⚕️New #publication in the National Library of Medicine from CDHA affiliate @drlaurenbishop.bsky.social & colleagues

➡️”Using National Survey Data to Estimate Healthcare Communication Disparities for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40069563/

The New Marriage of Unequals Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman.

👰CDHA and @cdeuw.bsky.social affiliate Christine Schwartz’s research featured in @theatlantic.com “The New Marriage of Unequals: Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman”

➡️Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Emerging Domains for Measuring Health Care Delivery With Electronic Health Record Metadata This article aims to introduce emerging measurement domains made feasible through the electronic health record (EHR) use metadata, to inform the changing landscape of health care delivery. We reviewed...

📈New #publication from CDHA affiliate Adam Rule & colleagues in the JMIR highlights the potential of electronic health record metadata to improve healthcare delivery by tracking team dynamics, workflows, and cognitive load

➡️ www.jmir.org/2025/1/e64721/

🌸Our LAST #UWDemSem of the spring semester is happening TODAY
☔Join us for a great session to wrap up the season!

Eating and swallowing care disparities in persons with dementia: A conceptual framework - PubMed There are eating/swallowing care disparities among persons living with dementia. We introduce a conceptual framework applying social and structural determinants of health to eating/swallowing care. We...

🍽️New #publication in the @alzdemjournals.bsky.social from CDHA affiliates @algilmore.bsky.social, @manish-shah.bsky.social, Amy Kind & colleagues

➡️”Eating and swallowing care disparities in persons with dementia: A conceptual framework”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40008923/

Alzheimer's research at UW-Madison could bear brunt of Trump's medical research cuts Of UW-Madison's top 10 research grants from the National Institutes of Health, for which Trump announced a big cut, five involve dementia, including the top three.

💵CDHA affiliate Sterling Johnson quoted in the Wisconsin State Journal “Alzheimer’s research at UW-Madison could bear brunt of Trump’s medical research cuts”

➡️Read more here: madison.com/news/local/b...

Amyloid is associated with accelerated atrophy in cognitively unimpaired individuals This study examined the association of longitudinal atrophy with baseline cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid beta (Aβ, A) and phosphorylated tau (p‐tau, T) biomarkers (Aβ42/40, p‐tau181) in 406 cogniti...

🧠New #publication from CDHA affiliates Sanjay Asthana, Sterling Johnson & colleagues in the @alzdemjournals.bsky.social

➡️”Amyloid is associated with accelerated atrophy in cognitively impaired individuals”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🧠Join us next week for our FINAL #UWDemSem of the spring semester with Jinkook Lee, who will present "Innovations in Global Aging Research on Brain Health" on Tuesday, April 22nd at 12:15pm!
➡️View the full semester schedule: cde.wisc.edu/events/demsem/
@cdhauw.bsky.social

👏Thank you to CDE Visiting Scholar Dr. Abouk (@aboukr.bsky.social) for joining us today to present at #UWDemSem @cdhauw.bsky.social
➡️Join us next week for our final #UWDemSem of the semester!
cde.wisc.edu/events/demsem/

🗓️Make sure you tune in to Rahi Abouk's presentation today!

Why has Wisconsin public health declined despite millions in funding? UW-Madison’s medical school and the Medical College of Wisconsin received $600 million from Blue Cross years ago, but the state's public health ranking has slipped.

💟 The Cap Times cites CDHA affiliate Amy Kind in “Why has Wisconsin public health declined despite millions in funding?”
Kind notes ongoing efforts to create a healthier Wisconsin, “We ensure that we do the most we possibly can with what we have.”

➡️Read: captimes.com/news/educati...

✨See you tonight!

Get ready for @michaeltopping.bsky.social & Sara Peters’s session at #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social on Sunday, April 13th, “Decomposing the Rural Mortality Penalty”

The Vocational and Educational Index: An Update to the Vocational Index to Reflect Contemporary Postsecondary Educational Options for Autistic Adults - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders The Vocational Index, a tool to reliably capture the range of vocational and educational activities in which adults with autism engage, is regularly used in studies of adult outcomes in autism. Howeve...

🗣️New #publication in the Journal of Autism and Dev Disorders from CDHA affiliate Marsha Mailick & colleagues

➡️”The Vocational and Educational Index: An Update to the Vocational Index to Reflect Contemporary Postsecondary Educational Options for Autistic Adults”
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🩺Next week we are excited to have CDE Visiting Scholar Rahi Abouk (@aboukr.bsky.social) presenting “The Roots of Health Disparities: Access to Physicians in Early 20th Century America” at #UWDemSem
➡️Join us on Tuesday, April 15th, at 12:15pm! @cdhauw.bsky.social
cde.wisc.edu/events/demsem/

📅Save the date! Meiyi Li, @michalengelman.bsky.social & Amy Schultz will present their work on reexamining the health implications of objective & subjective neighborhood measures at #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social THIS Sunday, April 13th

🔜There is still time to plan your attendance for the 2025 Reception at PAA this Friday!

😊We hope to see you all there!

Check out Vikas Gawai & Lauren Schmitz’s presentation at #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social on Sunday, April 13th, “Cognitive Decline and Life Course Patterns: Evidence From Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI)”

Mark your calendars for Xiyuan Hu & Mariétou Ouayogodé’s talk at #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social! They’ll be presenting on the association between the COVID-19 Pandemic and health care quality in the medicare shared savings program on Friday, April 11th

Trump administration again slashes funding for Obamacare program that helps Wisconsinites find health coverage Navigators help people sign up for health insurance and will face steep cuts in funding under a move by the Trump administration.

🧑‍⚕️CDHA affiliate Rebecca Myerson’s study on information gaps and health enrollment discussed in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Trump administration again slashes funding for Obamacare program that helps Wisconsinites find health coverage”
➡️Read more here: www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

Make sure to attend Amy Schultz & @michalengelman.bsky.social’s session at #PAA2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social on Friday, April 11th: “How Does Life Course Exposure to Residential Disadvantage Accelerate Biological Aging? The Role of Psychological Responses”

Citation Context Analysis of Autism Mortality and Suicide Findings This systematic review evaluates the accuracy of citations to a landmark study on premature mortality among autistic people.

📢New #publication in JAMA from CDHA affiliate @drlaurenbishop.bsky.social & colleagues
➡️ “Citation Context Analysis of Autism Mortality and Suicide Findings From Hirvikoski’s Landmark Study”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

At #PAA2025, @popassocamerica.bsky.social, check out Edith-Marie Green, Paul Peppard & Amy Schultz presentation on "Changes in Advance Care Planning During COVID-19: A Study of the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin," Friday, April 11th

New virtual Center for Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE) funded, as introduced at 2024 workshop at UW-Madison The 2025 Climate Change, Aging, and Health Across the Life Course workshop brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at UW-Madison to share research and build new collaborations around t...

🚨Exciting news! The new Center for Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE) has been established, following the 2025 workshop at UW-Madison. Led by Dr. Lori Hunter & supported by the NIA, CACHE will address aging, climate change, & health across the life course.

➡️Read more: cdha.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/n...

🎉If you are looking for a lively networking opportunity, then join us (@cdhauw.bsky.social) for #PAA2025 on April 11th in Washington, DC!

🎓Connect with researchers from top universities across the country and feel free to bring a friend to this casual event!

➡️ cde.wisc.edu/event/2025-r...