Upcoming webinar: Gateway Projects for Environmental Exposure Data in Aging Research
Join SBE CCC for an upcoming April webinar, free and open to the public. No registration required.
When: April 24, 2025 from 3 - 4 pm EST
Location: On Zoom
Title: Gateway Projects for Environmental Exposure Data in Aging Research
Abstract:
The Gateway to Global Aging Data and Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center are infrastructure projects advancing research on aging, including Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias. By developing open science and public-use resources, we aim to lower the barriers to high-quality information and to improve transparency and replicability in research — therefore, enabling rapid scientific progress. In this talk, I will introduce these projects, their outputs, and how they contribute to research initiatives on charting the exposome (i.e., the environmental exposures over the life course), ranging from policies to natural, physical, and chemical environments.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Jinkook Lee is a Research Professor of Economics and the Program Director of Global Aging, Health, and Policy at the Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the economics of aging, with interdisciplinary training and expertise in large-scale population surveys. She has developed and led the Gateway to Global Aging Data, spearheading data harmonization across the Health and Retirement Study and its international network of studies and leads the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC), integrating contextual data, including historical policies, physical, chemical, and social environments in studying health and aging. She laid the groundwork for studying Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia and their risk factors and impacts in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) by developing the Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD). The LASI-DAD is the country’s first and only population representative cognitive aging and dementia study. Its study protocol has been influential in developing cognitive aging and dementia studies in other LMICs, including Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Malawi, as well as other high-income countries. She provides scientific advice for the World Health Organization, the United Nation, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank and serves on the editorial boards for several scientific journals. She received a Ph.D. from Ohio State University and a B.S. from Seoul National University and previously held a professorship at Ohio State University and the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
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