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HCAP Network Team

David Weir
HCAP Network Co-Principal Investigator and Sampling Core Leader
Director, Health and Retirement Study; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research

Ken Langa
HCAP Network Co-Principal Investigator and Diagnosis and Validation Core Leader
Associate Director, Health and Retirement Study; Cyrus Sturgis Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School; Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Jessica Faul
HCAP Network Biomarker Core Leader
Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study; Associate Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Richard Jones
HCAP Network Statistical Harmonization Core Leader
Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study; Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University; Professor, Neurology, Brown University

Lindsay Ryan
HCAP Network Protocol Content and Administration Core Leader
Associate Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Amanda Sonnega
HCAP Network Outreach and Dissemination Core Leader
Associate Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
HCAP Network Members
The researchers of the HCAP Network represent an international group of eleven aging and cognition studies.
Chile Cognitive Aging Study (Chile-Cog)

Jere Berhman
Chile-Cog Co-Principal Investigator
WR Kenan Jr Professor of Economics & Sociology, Research Associate of Population Studies Center and Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
David Bravo
Chile-Cog Co-Principal Investigator
Director, Center of Surveys and Longitudinal Studies, Universidad Católica de Chile

Irma Elo
Chile-Cog Co-Principal Investigator
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology; Chair, Graduate Group in Demography; Research Associate, Population Studies Center & Population Aging Research Center

John Strauss
CHARLS Co-Principal Investigator
Co-Principal Investigator, China Health and Retirement Study; Principal Investigator; Indonesia Family Life Survey; Professor, Economics, University of Southern California

Qinqin Meng
CHARLS Team
Research Assistant, China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Huali Wang
CHARLS Team
Professor & Chair, Dementia Care & Research Center, Clinical Research Division, Peking University Institute of Mental Health (Sixth Hospital)
Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study (CADAS)

Will Dow
CADAS Principal Investigator
Director, Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging; Professor, School of Public Health and Department of Demography

Daisy Acosta
CADAS Team
Principal Investigator, 10/66 Dementia Research Group; Physician, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Amal Harrati
CADAS Team
Researcher, Mathematica
Ivonne Z. Jimènez-Velàzquez
CADAS Team
Jorge J. Llibre-Guerra
CADAS Team
Washington University School of Medicine in St.Louis, USA; National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Habana, Cuba
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Andrew Steptoe
ELSA Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; Professor, Psychology and Epidemiology, University College London

Carol Brayne
ELSA Team
Co-Investigator, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; Professor of Public Health Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

David Llewellyn
ELSA Team
Co-Investigator, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Digital Health, University of Exeter

Shabina Hayat
ELSA Team
Senior Research Fellow, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI)
Lisa Berkman
HAALSI Principal Investigator
Thomas Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology and Global and Population Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Darina Bassil
HAALSI Team
Research Associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Meagan Farrell
HAALSI Team
Research Associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Julia Rohr
HAALSI Team
HAALSI Project Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Beth Truesdale
HAALSI Team
Research Associate, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

Ken Langa
HRS-HCAP Principal Investigator
Associate Director, Health and Retirement Study; Cyrus Sturgis Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School; Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

David Weir
HRS Principal Investigator; HRS-HCAP Co-Investigator
Director, Health and Retirement Study; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research

Jessica Faul
HRS-HCAP Co-Investigator
Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study; Associate Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Richard Jones
HRS-HCAP Co-Investigator
Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study; Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University; Professor, Neurology, Brown University

Deborah Levine
HRS-HCAP Co-Investigator

Jennifer Manly
HRS-HCAP Co-Investigator
Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study; Professor, Neuropsychology, Columbia University

Lindsay Ryan
HRS-HCAP Co-Investigator
Associate Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Eileen Crimmins
HRS-HCAP Collaborator
Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study; AARP Chair in Gerontology; Co-Director, USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health. NIA Biomarker Network and Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology Program

Lindsay Kobayashi
HRS-HCAP Collaborator
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan

Ryan McCammon
HRS-HCAP Collaborator
Research Associate Social/Behavioral Sciences Lead, Survery Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Amanda Sonnega
HRS-HCAP Collaborator
Associate Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Carrie Wixom
HRS-HCAP Staff
Research Area Specialist, Michigan Medicine, Division of General Medicine
The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
Rose Anne Kenny
TILDA Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing; Chair of Medical Gerontology and Head of Department of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin; Physician and Director of Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James Hospital, Dublin; Co-Director Syncope and Falls Unit, St James Hospital, Dublin


Christine McGarrigle
TILDA Team
Senior Research Fellow Epidemiology, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
Longitudinal Aging Study in India – Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (LASI-DAD)

Jinkook Lee
LASI-DAD Principal Investigator
Research Professor of Economics & CESR Director, Program on Global Aging, Health & Policy, University of Southern California; Senior Economist, RAND Corporation


Ying Liu
LASI-DAD Team
Research Scientist, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California

Erik Meijer
LASI-DAD Team
Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California
Sarah Petrosyan
LASI-DAD Team
Research Programmer I, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California
Mexican Health and Aging Study – Cognitive Aging Ancillary Study (Mex-Cog)
Rebeca Wong
Mex-Cog Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator, Mexican Health and Aging Study; Associate Director, Sealy Center on Aging: Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch

Silvia Mejia-Arango
Mex-Cog Team
Expert Collaborator, Mexican Health and Aging Study; Research Professor, Professor, Department of Population Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Alejandra Michaels-Obregon
Mex-Cog Team
Research Project Manager, Univeristy of Texas Medical Branch, Sealy Center on Aging
Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA)

Bernadette McGuinness
NICOLA Principal Investigator
Consultat Geriatrician, The Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing; Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Denistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast

Charlotte Neville
NICOLA Team
Scientific Officer (Senior Research Fellow), The Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA), Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast
Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Axel Börsch-Supan
SHARE Principal Investigator
Managing Director, Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe; Director, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
