Research Developmental Infrastructure Core

Director: Andrew Cherlin

The HPC is using developmental infrastructure funds in several ways:  providing seed grants, supporting working groups, and supporting research and policy workshops and mini-conferences.  Its goal is to encourage interdisciplinary research and to support the development of new investigators.  Andrew Cherlin is the director of the core.  Click on the pilot project name for more information:

1. Biology and Environment in Race/Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Obesity
   Jonathan Ellen & Andrew Cherlin
2. Consequences of Birth Weight
   Nan Astone
3. Migration, the State and Health Transition in Southern Chad
   Lori Leonard
4. Parity and Later-Life Health among Women in Egypt
   David Bishai
5. Mental Health Needs of Older Displaced Persons within the Republic of Georgia
   Courtland Robinson
6. Population-Based Explanations for the Increase in Obesity in Western Countries
   Lingxin Hao & Thomas Glass
7. Successful Black Marriages
   Katrina Bell McDonald
8. Life Table Imbalances in Infant and Adult Mortality
   Vladimir Canudas-Romo

(Updated:  February 2009)