- June 16, 2024Source: Los Angeles Daily News
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- June 04, 2024
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- April 10, 2024Source: The Washington Post
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Aging
Yale School of Public Health faculty are engaged in interdisciplinary approaches to promote healthier aging. Our research includes:
- Influence of social psychological factors, including age stereotypes and ageism, on health outcomes
- Improving emotional health of older adults and reducing stress for the caregivers
- Identifying how home environments and finances affect the health of older adults
- Prevention of chronic diseases such as stroke and cardiovascular diseases
- Cognitive health (Alzheimer's disease and dementia)
- Improving HIV/AIDS outcomes for aging populations
- Improving health care access for older people
- Techniques for reducing the risk of falls and minimizing physical disability among older persons
- Access to care, insurance markets and public policy
- Quality of preventive, acute, long-term and end-of-life health care
- Novel integrative analysis using imaging and genetics to determine risk for Alzheimer's disease and its progression
Methodologies include:
- Etiology and treatment of disease
- Disease surveillance
- Genetics, pathology, epidemiology and neuroimaging
- Methods and qualitative and quantitative analyses for clinical trials
- Interventions, longitudinal studies and community-based field studies
Learn more about this work in the Departments of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Recent Publications
2024
- Self-injurious unnatural death among Veterans with HIV.Smith AC, Goulet JL, Vlahov D, Justice AC, Womack JA. AIDS. 2024 Aug 1; 2024 May 28. PMID: 38814683.
- Genomic Landscape of Osteosarcoma of Bone in an Older-Aged Patient Population and Analysis of Possible Etiologies Based on Molecular Signature.Kaseb H, Tan C, Townsend JP, Costa J, Laskin WB. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers. 2024 Jul 25; 2024 Jul 25. PMID: 39052504.
- COVID-19 Breakthrough Infection after Vaccination and Substance Use Disorders: A Longitudinal Cohort of People with and without HIV Receiving Care in the United States Veterans Health Administration.Soyer EM, McGinnis KA, Justice AC, Hsieh E, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Williams EC, Park LS. AIDS Behav. 2024 Jul 24; 2024 Jul 24. PMID: 39046612.
- Temporal and Racial/Ethnic Patterns of Social Engagement among Older Adults: Evidence from American Time Use Survey 2019 to 2022.Yu J, Huang W, Kahana E. J Appl Gerontol. 2024 Jul 18; 2024 Jul 18. PMID: 39023779.
- Upper respiratory Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization among working-age adults with prevalent exposure to overcrowding.Parker AM, Jackson N, Awasthi S, Kim H, Alwan T, Wyllie AL, Kogut K, Holland N, Mora AM, Eskenazi B, Riley LW, Lewnard JA. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Jul 16; 2024 Jul 16. PMID: 39012111.
- Association between Personal Abiotic Airborne Exposures and Body Composition Changes among Healthy Adults (60-69 Years Old): A Combined Exposome-Wide and Lipidome Mediation Approach from the China BAPE Study.Sun P, Guo X, Ding E, Li C, Ren H, Xu Y, Qian J, Deng F, Shi W, Dong H, Lin EZ, Guo P, Fang J, Zhang Q, Zhao W, Tong S, Lu X, Pollitt KJG, Shi X, Tang S. Environ Health Perspect. 2024 Jul; 2024 Jul 19. PMID: 39028628.
- Identification of hepatic steatosis among persons with and without HIV using natural language processing.Torgersen J, Skanderson M, Kidwai-Khan F, Carbonari DM, Tate JP, Park LS, Bhattacharya D, Lim JK, Taddei TH, Justice AC, Lo Re V 3rd. Hepatol Commun. 2024 Jul 1; 2024 Jun 19. PMID: 38896066.
- DNA methylation-based telomere length is associated with HIV infection, physical frailty, cancer, and all-cause mortality.Liang X, Aouizerat BE, So-Armah K, Cohen MH, Marconi VC, Xu K, Justice AC. Aging Cell. 2024 Jul; 2024 Apr 17. PMID: 38629454.
- Sample Size Requirements to Test Subgroup-Specific Treatment Effects in Cluster-Randomized Trials.Wang X, Goldfeld KS, Taljaard M, Li F. Prev Sci. 2024 Jul; 2023 Oct 10. PMID: 37816835.
- Association of Childhood Exposure to School Racial Segregation with Late-Life Cognitive Outcomes among Older Americans.Lin Z, Wang Y, Gill TM, Chen X. medRxiv. 2024 Jun 21; 2024 Jun 21. PMID: 38947046.
- Polypharmacy Is Associated With Slow Gait Speed and Recurrent Falls in Older People With HIV.Kosana P, Wu K, Tassiopoulos K, Letendre S, Ma Q, Paul R, Ellis R, Erlandson KM, Farhadian SF. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Jun 14. PMID: 38147306.
- Personal exposure to airborne organic pollutants and lung function changes among healthy older adults.Guo X, Ren H, Sun P, Ding E, Fang J, Fang K, Ma X, Li C, Li C, Xu Y, Cao K, Lin EZ, Guo P, Pollitt KJG, Tong S, Tang S, Shi X. Environ Res. 2024 Jun 13; 2024 Jun 13. PMID: 38876423.
- Total and Out-of-Pocket Costs Surrounding Emergency Department Care Among Older Adults Enrolled in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage.Gettel CJ, Salah W, Rothenberg C, Liang Y, Schwartz H, Scott KW, Hwang U, Hastings SN, Venkatesh AK. Ann Emerg Med. 2024 Jun 11; 2024 Jun 11. PMID: 38864783.
- Generating the evidence to support the establishment of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus surveillance system in Cameroon: A study protocol.Njuma Libwea J, Esso L, Njoh AA, Ngwa CH, Ngomba Armelle V, Bilounga Ndongo C, Etoundi Mballa GA, Nwaru BI, Weinberger D, Njouom R, Koulla-Shiro S. PLoS One. 2024; 2024 Jun 11. PMID: 38861519.
- SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: introduction and overview.Hsu VP, Haessler S, Banach DB, Batshon LJ, Branch-Elliman W, Dumyati G, Jump RLP, Malani AN, Mathew TA, Murthy RK, Pergam SA, Shenoy ES, Weber DJ. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Jun 5; 2024 Jun 5. PMID: 38835222.
- Effectiveness of the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines against severe COVID-19 among adults 40 years or older in Brazil: a population-based cohort study.Lazar Neto F, Hitchings MDT, Amin AB, de França GVA, Lind ML, Scaramuzzini Torres MS, Tsuha DH, de Oliveira RD, Cummings DAT, Dean NE, Andrews JR, Ko AI, Croda J, Ranzani OT. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024 Jun; 2024 May 3. PMID: 38737773.
- Acute Cardiac Events in Hospitalized Older Adults With Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection.Woodruff RC, Melgar M, Pham H, Sperling LS, Loustalot F, Kirley PD, Austin E, Yousey-Hindes K, Openo KP, Ryan P, Brown C, Lynfield R, Davis SS, Barney G, Tesini B, Sutton M, Talbot HK, Zahid H, Kim L, Havers FP. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Jun 1. PMID: 38619857.
- Trajectories of Purpose in Life Across Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease or Related Dementias in Older Adulthood.Mroz EL, Collette T, Keefe K, Gil H, Monin J, Sharma S. J Aging Health. 2024 May 30; 2024 May 30. PMID: 38816276.
- Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition Among Older Adults in the US.Lin Z, Ye J, Allore H, Gill TM, Chen X. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 May 28; 2024 May 28. PMID: 38805197.
- Positive affect expression during a play interaction and psychological health among older adults living with cognitive impairment and their adult children.Gad D, Wells JL, Piechota A, Feeney B, Birditt KS, Marottoli RA, Gaugler JE, Vranceanu AM, Monin JK. Aging Ment Health. 2024 May 25; 2024 May 25. PMID: 38795364.
- Cost-effectiveness of Prefusion F Protein-based Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease for Older Adults in the United States.Moghadas SM, Shoukat A, Bawden CE, Langley JM, Singer BH, Fitzpatrick MC, Galvani AP. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 May 15. PMID: 38035791.
- The Association of Prescribed Opioids and Incident Cardiovascular Disease.Sung ML, Eden SK, Becker WC, Crystal S, Duncan MS, Gordon KS, Kerns RD, Kundu S, Freiberg M, So-Armah KA, Edelman EJ. J Pain. 2024 May; 2023 Nov 27. PMID: 38029949.
- Posttransplant Tertiary Lymphoid Organs.Ruddle NH. Transplantation. 2024 May 1; 2023 Nov 2. PMID: 37917987.
- Reporting of Demographics & Subgroup Analyses in Premarketing Studies of FDA Approved High-Risk Cardiovascular Devices, 2014-2022.Swanson MJ, Uyeki CL, Yoder SR, Dhruva SS, Miller JE, Ross JS. Med Devices (Auckl). 2024; 2024 Apr 29. PMID: 38707869.
- Challenges in management of older patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.Stempel JM, Shallis RM, Wong R, Podoltsev NA. Leuk Lymphoma. 2024 Apr 23; 2024 Apr 23. PMID: 38652861.
for Faculty working in this area.
Centers and other resources
- Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS)CMIPS develops and disseminates innovative methodologic approaches to address implementation gaps and improve public health worldwide.
- Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research (CNE2)CNE2 is comprised of researchers across Yale schools who have common and complementary research and methodological interests in clinical neurological research.
- Social Gerontology and Health LabThe lab is researching how partner disability and suffering affect older adult caregivers' health and seeks ways to minimize the negative consequences of caregiving.
- Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC)The PRC works with community partners to develop and implement community-based approaches to prevent and control chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
- Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH)YIGH serves as the focal point for research, education, and engagement with global partners to improve the health of individuals and populations worldwide.