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This project, funded by the NIH and begun in 2021, leverages the recently completed data linkage between the 1940 census and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Our overall objective is to evaluate effects of early-life community-level social and environmental factors on late-life Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and the extent to which these factors contribute to racial disparities on ADRD.

This project was awarded the 2021 Rosinbleth Award by the Health Effects Institute. The announcement is here. This project is motivated by a fundamental disconnect in air pollution policy—scientists have established strong relationships between ambient concentrations and health, but regulations must necessarily target air pollution sources.

In anticipation of the expanding appreciation for air quality models in health outcomes studies, we develop and evaluate a …