The Center on Aging and Health, established in 1998, is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health. The lead sponsors are the Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Policy, and Mental Hygiene. The Center is the home for a multidisciplinary research faculty from each of these departments, and the Training Program in Clinical and Population-based Research on Aging. The training program provides pre- and postdoctoral training in the epidemiology and biostatistics of aging. The Center was also mandated to provide a focal point for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions for a critical mass of interdisciplinary research activities on aging and collegial interaction for research on aging and research training.
The goal of the Center is to promote the intellectual interactions that are essential to creative approaches to solving the important health and health care problems for an aging population. The core research in the Center involves population-based and clinical research on the causes and consequences of diseases, frailty and disability in older adults, characterizing groups at risk of adverse health outcomes, identifying causes and developing methods for screening and prevention. The Center includes the full breadth of aging research, from the biology of aging to health policy, thus facilitating the translation of research discoveries into applications that will directly improve the health of older adults. The Center also provides the infrastructure that supports clinical and population-based research and education, with staff expert in the issues of research with older adults. Please click link for information about requests for proposals |
