Completed Pilot Projects

  1. A Test of the Suitability of Western Behavior Change Interventions to Prevent Diabetes and Promote Cardiovascular Health in Older Women in Urban Africa (PI: Hill)
  2. Establishing the Value of Life in Tanzania (PI: Bärnighausen)
  3. Diabetes Treatment Needs Among Older Adults in Agincourt, South Africa (PI: Montana)
  4. A comparison of social, biological and economic predictors of cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease and HIV among older adults (PI: Montana)
  5. HIV in older ages in Tanzania: a population-based pilot for ART impact evaluation and intervention research (PI: Bärnighausen)
  6. Investigating the Social Context of Functional, Mental, and Cognitive Health Outcomes Among Older Adults in India (PI: Subramanian)
  7. Intended and Unintended Effects of Risk Adjustment Payments for Individuals with Chronic Conditions on Diagnosis and Treatment in Medicare Advantage (PI: Layton)
  8. Assessing Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) in South Africa and Harmonizing Assessments with HRS Sister Studies in China and India (PI: Montana)
  9. Preliminary Research on Advanced Care Planning in a Community-based Study of Older Women and Men (PI: Grodstein)
  10. A Life Course Approach to Mental Health of Older Refugees: A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Study (PI: Betancourt)
  11. Decomposing spatial variation and disparities in the HAALSI cohort (PI: Chen)
  12. HIV Infection, Geriatric Health and Quality of Life in Rural Uganda (PI: Christiani)
  13. Assessment of Neurocognitive Function in Africa’s HIV-Infected Oldest Old (PI: Mateen)
  14. Improving Sampling Techniques for Medicare Advantage Plan Payment (PI: Rose)
  15. How Older Latino Immigrants Access and Experience Social Services in Massachusetts (PI: Waters)
  16. A Life Course Approach to Mental Health of Older Refugees: A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Study (PI: Betancourt)
  17. HAALSI Nutritional Establishment Baseline Survey (NEBS) (PI: Jennings)
  18. Validation of methods for measuring vitamin D concentrations in dried blood spots, Longitudinal Aging Study in India (Preliminary Travel Pilot Grant) (PI: Sudfeld)
  19. Aging and health related bankruptcy: a discrete choice experiment (PI: Shrime)
  20. Discrimination, aging, and health: exploratory pilot study to develop implicit measures of exposure (PI: Krieger)
  21. Evaluating determinants of cardiovascular risk factors in older HIV positive and negative adults in western Mbarara, Uganda (PI: Danaei)
  22. Estimating HIV Prevalence Rates in Africa Adjusting for Selective Non-Response (PI: Bärnighausen)
  23. Two Decades of Medicare Spending Growth: Evidence from 3 Sentinal Conditions (PI: Chandra)
  24. The Health Effects of Job Loss at Older Ages (PI: Beckfield)
  25. The Effect of Medicare Advantage Enrollment on Access, Costs and Quality of Mental Health Care for the Elderly in Need of Mental Health Care (PI: Cook)
  26. Assigning Value to Health Care Technologies (PI: Jha)
  27. The impact of increased caloric intake on productivity, cognitive function, and decision-making (PI: Mullainathan)
  28. The impact of pain reduction on productivity, cognitive function, and decision making (PI: Mullainathan)
  29. Investigating Compression of Morbidity and Disability in the Health and Retirement Survey (PI: Subramanian)
  30. Evaluating determinants of hypertension in older adults in urban Tanzania (PI: Danaei)
  31. Migration in INDEPTH adults: Identification, location and interview of migrants lost in longitudinal studies of adult health: validity of follow-up approaches and strategies for inclusion (PI: Berkman)
  32. Interim funding to support research and planning activities for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), Subcontract to IIPS – Interim funding to support research and planning activities for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI) (PI: Bloom)
  33. Identifying Barriers to Investment in Health: Improving Respiratory Health Outcomes for the Elderly. (PIs: Cohen and McConnell)
  34. Lifecourse Socioeconomic Status, Hypertension and Risk of Dementia and Cognitive Decline. (PI: Glymour)
  35. The Effect of Social Security Reform on Male Labor Supply. (PI: Canning)
  36. The Impact of Financial Inclusion, Social capital on Health – Microfinance Evidence from India. (PI: Pande)
  37. Positive externalities associated with a mental health intervention for war-affected youth in Freetown, Sierra Leone. (PI: Betancourt)