@ The Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference, 2016

• Agenda
• Attendees
• Update on Assay Validations
  • Eileen Crimmins: IL-6, Vit D, CMV, EBV (1)
  • Alan Potter: Recent Progress in Developing Biomarker Assays for Dried Blood Pots (2)
• Updates from Studies
  • Nancy Dole: Add Health (3)
  • Perry Hu: CHARLS (4)
  • Joseph Saenz (Rebecca Wong): MHAS (5)
  • John Strauss: IFLS (6)
  • Jinkook Lee: LASI
  • David Weir: HRS (7)
  • Pam Herd: WLS
  • Ann Hever: TILDA (8)
  • Geeta Eick: SAGE
• Stresses and Biology
  • Michael Hurd: The Effect of Job Loss and Home Foreclosure on Health Evidence from Biomarkers
  • Elizabeth McClure: Prevalence of abandoned Homes in the neighborhood and thymic function (9)
  • Evan Krueger: Neighborhood income and high sensitivity C-reactive protein among young adults: differences by sexual orientation and gender (10)
• Genetics
  • Morgan Levine: A weighted gene correlation network analysis method for estimation of polygenic risk scores (11)
  • Benjamin Domingue: Mortality selection in a genetic sample and implications for association studies (12)
• New Measures and Markers for Demographers
  • Ronny Westerman: Imaging biomarker or surrogate end point: How do assess arterial stiffness as independent predictor for mortality and physical aging in population-based studies? (13)
  • Colter Mitchell: Nueroimaging data collection
• New Measurement Approaches
  • Lydia Feinstein: In Search of a Salient Marker of Immune Function for Population Health Research (14)
  • Geeta Eick: Validation of a commercially-available ELISA for apolopoprotein B measurement in dried blood spots (15)
• Allostatic Load and Cardiovascular Risk
  • Jenna van Draanen: Healthy Lifestyle Index Predicts Lower Allostatic Load in Young Women (16)
  • Peifeng Hu: Socioeconomic Gradients of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in China and India: Results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study and Longitudinal Aging Study in India (17)
  • Yuan Zhang: Diabetes and prediabetes in China (18)