Research Program

Aging and Cognition

While the healthcare profession has achieved remarkable progress in lengthening life expectancy, more must be done to ensure that those added years are healthier ones. Schaeffer Center experts are researching the fiscal and health consequences of an aging population, and how we can improve the lives of older adults through interdisciplinary research.

Program Leadership

  • Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
    Co-Director, Aging and Cognition Program, USC Schaeffer Center
    Co-Director, CeASES ADRD and AD-RCMAR

  • Co-Director, Aging and Cognition Program, USC Schaeffer Center
    Associate Professor, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology

Featured Research

Experts in Aging and Cognition

  • Senior Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center
    Associate Professor, USC Price School of Public Policy

  • Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center
    Assistant Professor, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
    2014-2015 RCMAR Scientist, USC Schaeffer Center

  • Senior Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center
    Associate Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USC Andrus Gerontology Center
    AARP Professor of Gerontology, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
    Director, USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health

  • Dana Goldman, PhD

    Dean and C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Chair, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
    Co-Director, USC Schaeffer Center
    Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics, USC

  • Geoffrey Joyce, Ph.D.

    Director, Health Policy, USC Schaeffer Center
    Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics, USC Mann School
    Associate Professor, USC Mann School

Opportunities

2023 Alzheimer’s Trial Recruitment Innovation Lab Fellowship Program — Application Open

The University of Southern California (USC) announces an opening for a fellow to join the Alzheimer’s Trial Recruitment Innovation Lab (ATRIL) fellowship program in the fall of 2023.
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Applying for the 2023-2024 Roybal Center for Behavioral Interventions in Aging Pilot Projects

The Roybal Center for Behavioral Interventions in Aging seeks proposals for pilot projects that involve randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
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