Pilot Projects

The Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University funds pilot project grants in the area of the Economics and Demography of Aging. The aim is to provide assistance to Harvard researchers in undertaking preliminary research that may subsequently lead to a larger research project. The PGDA is a center for research on the Economics and Demography of Aging funded by the by the National Institute of Aging. More information on the PGDA is available at https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pgda/.

Pilot projects are solicited in the areas of:
1. Measurement of the global patterns of disease, mortality, and morbidity in aging populations
2.Social determinants of population health and aging
3. Economics of health care provision for the elderly
4. Macroeconomic consequences of population aging
5. Migration and Aging
6. Aging and HIV/AIDS