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The USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH) is a multisite center specializing in the Demography of Aging sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. It is located at the Andrus Gerontology Center of the University of Southern California and the Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology in the School of Medicine of the University of California at Los Angeles.

This Center is multidisciplinary linking demographers, biologists, economists, psychologists, epidemiologists, health policy specialists, medical researchers and clinical geriatricians in a Center devoted to understanding population health.

The primary purpose of the CBPH is to provide a synergistic research environment for the integration and translation of research findings from a variety of disciplines such as epidemiology, clinical geriatrics, biostatistics, and biology into their effects on the health status of populations and the expected life cycles of individuals. This integration of biological, epidemiologic and medical risk information which characterizes Center research is fundamental to understanding and projecting demographic trends and differences in population health. In addition, the application of the demographic perspective to medical, epidemiological, and biological knowledge is central to evaluating the relative importance of the various determinants of population health.

The National Institute on Aging supports ten research centers on the demography and economics of aging, based at the University of California Berkeley; the University of Chicago; Duke University; the University of Michigan; the National Bureau of Economic Research; the University of Pennsylvania; RAND corporation; Stanford University; The University of Southern California and the University of California Los Angeles; and the University of Wisconsin. For further information on the centers, and to review issues of Research Highlights, please visit the all-centers web site at http://agingmeta.psc.isr.umich.edu/