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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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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: