AHPS Data Disseminator Coordinator

Hiring Range $55,000 to $65,000 dependent on qualifications

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Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit

Since 1966, researchers at the Carolina Population Center have pioneered data collection and research techniques that move population science forward by emphasizing life course approaches, longitudinal surveys, the integration of biological measurement into social surveys, and attention to context and environment. We are also at the forefront of creating interdisciplinary training programs that integrate approaches from the social and biological sciences, building research capacity and training the next generation of scholars.

Our faculty fellows address pressing research questions about population dynamics, fertility, health, mortality, migration, and the environment. Faculty come from multiple disciplines, benefit ting from the cross-pollination of ideas. Our dedicated research and programming staff support fellows at every stage of project development, from conception through data collection or acquisition, analysis and dissemination, and project administration. https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

Position Summary

The Carolina Population Center ( CPC ) is a community of scholars and professionals collaborating on interdisciplinary research and methods that advance understanding of population issues. The Center conducts path-breaking work across the US and in more than 50 other countries and makes its findings available to a global audience. A nationally recognized training program educates the next generation of population scholars.

The Add Health Parent Study ( AHPS ), housed at CPC , is an innovative intergenerational biosocial project funded by NIH for a second phase that will expand the study sample and add new cognitive and genetic data. An interdisciplinary team of scientists will collect longitudinal cognitive, social, behavioral, and biological data on parents of individuals who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), which has been administered at CPC for 25+ years.

Phase 2 of the Add Health Parent Study will expand the AHPS sample through additional recruitment of parents. These new participants will be administered a one-hour survey that Phase 1 participants completed. The full AHPS sample (e.g., Phase 1 and
2) will then be administered an Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias (AD/ ADRD ) Assessment, and physical measures and DNA data collection. These data will be linked to an earlier wave of data collection on the parents to create longitudinal AHPS data and also linked to longitudinal data on their children in Add Health. Cognitive measures across the two generations and a multigenerational genomic database will be created, and these new data will be available to the scientific community of 50,000+ Add Health and AHPS users.

This project will facilitate the study of cognitive aging, caregiving, dementia risks and related health outcomes across two generations with longitudinal, nationally…