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Congrats, Brendan!

Previously a Research Associate for the SEGA Research Group, Brendan accepted a position in January of 2023 with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in Los Angeles, California. Here, he works as an Epidemiological Research Analyst on the Genomic Epidemiology team.

Congratulations, Brendan!

Xuexin receives a Predoctoral Fellowship award!

Many congratulations to Xuexin Yu! She has received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Award from the University of Michigan to support her PhD research for the 2023/2024 academic year.

Ashly receives an NIA-funded K99/R00 award!

Congratulations to Ashly! She received a prestigious K99/R00 award from the National Institute on Aging (K99AG076532). She will be researching risk and resilience factors in memory aging of older cancer survivors in a cross-national comparison of data from the US and England. Her primary mentors are Drs. Lindsay Kobayashi and Ken Langa.

Presentations at the GSA 2022 meeting

November 2nd-6th was the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting in Indianapolis, IN. SEGA Research Group members presented their work on a wide variety of topics:

Presentations at the GSA 2022 meeting

November 2nd-6th was the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting in Indianapolis, IN. SEGA Research Group members presented their work on a wide variety of topics:

Congratulations for presenting your amazing work!

Xuexin Presents at the 2022 PAA

First-year doctoral student Xuexin Yu presented her research work at the Population Association of America (PAA) 2022 Annual Meeting, Cognitive Health and Aging section.

Title: Exposure to perceived job insecurity and subsequent memory function and decline among adults aged 55 and over in England and the United States: a pooled analysis of two population-based cohorts, 2006-2016
Time: April 8 (Fri) at 3:45pm

Congratulations on presenting your fabulous work!

Carly wins an award!

Sincere congratulations to Carly Joseph! She was presented with the United States Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Award to recognize her passion and dedication to public health within the medical profession.

New PhD students join the team!

In September 2021, Tsai-Chin (TC) Cho and Xuexin Yu joined the team as new PhD students in Epidemiologic Sciences at University of Michigan School of Public Health.

TC’s research interests revolve around social and contextual components of cross-national health disparities and healthcare utilization. Xuexin is interested in the effects of socioeconomic trajectories on cognitive aging among older adults in South Africa, China, and the United States.

They are beginning their PhD studies under the mentorship of Dr. Lindsay Kobayashi.

Ashly’s LRP got funded!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Ashly Westrick received three-year funding through the NIA/NIH Loan Repayment Program for her project: “Racial Disparities in Memory Aging Among Older Cancer Survivors: A Socioecological Approach”

Dr. Westrick’s project primarily aims to characterize long-term memory aging trajectories and racial disparities in memory aging among older cancer survivors, and to identify modifiable individual and socioecological determinants of long-term memory aging that could be future screening or early detection intervention targets to reduce disparities among older cancer survivors.

This project will help identify and evaluate disparities in long-term memory aging among older White and Black adults, by linking 20 years of US nationally representative data- Health and Retirement Study (HRS)- to the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA), a national data archive containing over three decades of contextual measures.

Congratulations, Dr. Westrick!