Innovation in Data & Measurement
The Collaborative for Innovation in Data & Measurement in Aging (CIDMA) is a collaboration of researchers at the University of Chicago, Center for Healthy Aging Behaviors and Longitudinal Investigations (CHABLIS) and CPHA. CIDMA identifies, designs, conducts and assesses innovations in data collection and measurement for use in current and future data-focused studies of aging.
Innovations include:
- Extending place-based studies of activities of individuals and their consequences for health and well-being from urban to rural settings
- Adapting methods for measuring cognition and brain functioning from laboratory to field settings
- Assessing ways to improve the collection of survey data and data from health records in both hospital- and population-based settings, with special emphasis on developing methods to improve subject recruitment and retention and the use of adaptive consenting processes to establish trust
Innovations are tested through rapid assessments focused on developing measures and methods that are cost-effective and that can be implemented in a range of settings, especially those “in the field” for population-based studies. Summer Institutes and symposia are planned to disseminate and educate data collection professionals in the study of aging.
Leadership
V. Joseph Hotz, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics, Duke University, CIDMA Collaborative PI
Kathleen Cagney, Director, Institute for Social Research; Research Professor, Survey Research Center; Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, CIDMA Collaborative PI
Dan Black, Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago
William Copeland, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont
Scott Huettel, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Rick Hoyle, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
David Meltzer, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
Colm O’Muricheartaigh, Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Linda Waite, George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago