📢Maria T. Brown is this week's affiliate. Maria is a professor in social work Falk College. Her research focuses on aging and cumulative inequality, particularly its impact on health disparities experienced in later life‼️ See 🔗 for Maria's bio ➡️asi.syr.edu/person/maria-t…

📢CAPS affiliate, Kai Zhang, has a new coauthored article🥳Zhang & coauthors examine the role of race & SES status in proximity to urban blue🌊 & green🌲 spaces & their association to improved cardiovascular health. See the AHA Science article here ➡️ tinyurl.com/3uhpzk62

📢See how the SU Policy, Place, & Population Health Lab (P3H), codirected by Shannon Monnat & Jennifer Karas Montez, works w grad students to understand the effects of state policies & local conditions on US health & mortality‼️ Check it out: 🔗syracuse.edu/stories/policy…

📢This week's affiliate is Tse-Chuan Yang, a sociology professor University at Albany. His current research examines the relationship between the risk of opioid use & residential environment factors among older adults ‼️ Read his bio here: tinyurl.com/4uxvfhd6

👉CAPS affiliate, Doug Wolf, & coauthor examined the effects of paid family & sick leave policies on care provision to older parents. They found that when combined w job protection, these could support family caregivers ‼️ See Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly article here: tinyurl.com/455j95tt

📢CAPS affiliate, Merril Silverstein, was quoted in the August 3rd The New York Times article, “When Elder Care Is All in the Stepfamily”. 📰Read the full article below ⬇️⬇️  nytimes.com/2024/08/03/hea…

📢📢This week’s affiliate is Scott Landes, a sociology prof. Maxwell School. His current research examines the causes & consequences of erroneously coding developmental disability as the underlying cause of death on US death certificates‼️ See his bio here ➡️tinyurl.com/mreay9n9

CAPS director, Jennifer Karas Montez, was awarded 5-year, $1.9M grant from the The National Institute on Aging (NIA) 👏 Jennifer is co-principal investigator for the Network on Life Course Health Dynamics & Disparities grant, which she has co-lead since 2019 ‼️The current grant provides +5 yrs of funding. 🥳🥳

📢📢The Disability Health Equity Research Network announced the details of its 2nd annual 💻virtual conference on 📅September 17th, 2024, 11AM-3PM EST‼️Check out DHERN's schedule & stellar list of speakers:↩️ tinyurl.com/z9d5aphp 🌟Register today ➡️ tinyurl.com/2urhc4m7

Congratulations🥳to CAPS affiliate, Miriam Mutambudzi, who was recently awarded an The National Institute on Aging (NIA) grant to examine the effects of precarity on health trajectories & mortality among older workers. CAPS affiliate, Pinka Chatterji, is a consultant on the grant. Terrific collaboration🎉🥳

📢CAPS director, Jennifer Karas Montez, was elected to President-Elect of the @ia4phs. Her 1-year term as President-Elect will begin in September 2024❗️ and 1-year term as President will begin in September 2025‼️ 👏Congrats, Jennifer! 🥳🥳

📢This week's affiliate is Aɴᴛʜᴏɴʏ Oɴɢ, a professor of human development Cornell University. Anthony's current research investigates the link between well-being & health at older ages, and the determinants/pathways to flourishing in later life‼️ See his bio here: tinyurl.com/5n8kysa8

📢CAPS affiliate, Shannon Monnat was awarded 5-year $1.9M grant from The National Institute on Aging (NIA) 🥳 Shannon is co-principal investigator on a NIH grant for the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health & Aging , which she co-leads since 2019. The current grant provides +5 yrs of funding❗️🥳🎉

📢📢CAPS affiliate, Scott Landes, has a new publication on the #disability mortality disparity‼️ He found that between 2008-19 the risk of mortality for disabled adults was nearly 2x that for nondisabled adults ‼️ See 🔗 for the Health Affairs article 👇 tinyurl.com/mpayd4pc

📢CAPS director, Jennifer Karas Montez & coauthor have a new article on the widening educational disparities in #health & longevity. Their findings indicate that the association has become stronger📈 & offers recs to advance explanations‼️ 👉 Read full article: tinyurl.com/2wt5jmwx

📢 New paper from CAPS affiliate, Merril Silverstein, & coauthors finds that older parents tend to perceive their coresident children as more supportive & respectful compared to non-coresident children in rural China‼️ Read the Chinese Journal of Sociology article here: tinyurl.com/2s36cfan

📢📢Mark your calendars📅 You won't want to miss the upcoming Fall 2024 CAPS events ‼️ We have an exciting line-up, including several 💻virtual seminars & our annual conference which will be hybrid this year. 🥳 More information coming soon ‼️

📢The Disability Health Equity Research Network's (DHERN) 2nd annual conference is less than 2 weeks away ‼️ 📅September 17th, 2024 ⏰11AM-3PM EST 🌟Register today: tinyurl.com/2urhc4m7 👇Check out DHERN's schedule & speakers below:

📢 Mark your calendars‼️ 🌟 Julian Reif will present at our upcoming CAPS Seminar‼️ See below for details. 📅 Date: September 20, 2024 ⏰ Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm EST 💻 Virtual: tinyurl.com/yc7ryk3u

📢CAPS publication of the week evaluates the 2023 Canadian wildfire🔥 smoke impact in #Northeastern US. It reveals that regions already burdened w ⬆️ high environmental pollution face amplified effects from wildfire smoke❗️ Read the Science of the Total Environment article: tinyurl.com/mtnmah3p