HAALSI receives NIH/NIA funding for new waves & national expansion, with special focus on cognitive health

June 6, 2023
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Researchers from The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS), the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Cape Town have been awarded 27 million dollars from the NIA to further their collaborative program project Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study in South Africa (HAALSI). Plans for the next 5-year phase of HAALSI include a 4th and 5th survey wave of a community-representative cohort in rural Agincourt, South Africa, and the launch of a nationally representative longitudinal HAALSI survey across South Africa. Read the news release!