Collaborative for Innovation in Data & Measurement in Aging (CIDMA)
CIDMA Institute – Save the Date: September 16-18, 2025
The fourth annual Collaborative for Innovation in Data & Measurement in Aging (CIDMA) institute will be held from September 16-18, 2025 at the University of Michigan. Please see the preliminary schedule for our 2.5-day meeting outlined below:
Tuesday, September 16
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Institute sessions will begin at 1:00 PM
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Welcome Reception in the evening
Wednesday, September 17
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Full day of sessions starting at 9:00 AM
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Includes lunch and an evening dinner gathering
Thursday, September 18
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Morning overlap sessions with PSID participants
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Program concludes by early afternoon
The CIDMA Institute aims to bring together researchers and data collection professionals for a 2.5-day interactive workshop focused on identifying ongoing challenges in data collection and measurement and brainstorming potential innovations to address these challenges. In addition, researchers leading the initial CIDMA assessment projects will present preliminary results and lead a discussion on opportunities for future applications. Participants are encouraged to bring challenges from their own research to share with the group.
The goal of CIDMA is to identify, design, conduct and assess innovations in data collection and measurement within longitudinal research on aging and disseminate the findings of these assessments broadly. Learn more about current CIDMA assessment projects here.
The CIDMA Institute is sponsored by the NIA P30 Center on Healthy Aging Behaviors and Longitudinal Investigations and the NIA P30 Center for Population Health and Aging at Duke University. The application to attend and/or present is now open. For questions or additional information, please contact Joshua Santiago at joshua.santiago@bsd.uchicago.edu.
Travel Stipends
A limited number of travel stipends to cover the cost of hotel and airfare are available. Travel stipends will be prioritized for early career researchers traveling to Michigan for the CIDMA institute.
Application materials and instructions
Applicants will be asked to provide:
- Applicant details and demographic information
- CV
- Statement of interest (maximum one page) describing your:
- Experience or interest in research on aging
- Experience or interest in longitudinal, population and/or community based research
- Challenges related to data collection and measurement you have encountered in your research
- Specific research or career goals that the CIDMA Institute will help achieve
- A letter of support from your advisor or department head (maximum one page, required only for applicants applying for a travel stipend) describing or confirming:
- The applicant’s role as a student, post-doc, junior faculty member or early career researcher
- Information on how this training will help the applicant’s career
- If there will be support for the applicant’s research after the CIDMA institute in their current department
- For those interested in presenting work at CIDMA, please submit an abstract (1,000 words or less) which should include a description of the topic to be studied,
the theoretical focus, the data and research methods, and preliminary analyses if available.
We are now accepting applications to attend, as well as abstract submissions for those interested in presenting data or projects. The application window has been extended to Friday, August 15. To apply, please follow this link: https://redcap.link/CIDMA2025.
Questions
Contact Josh Santiago (joshua.santiago@bsd.uchicago.edu) for more information. The faculty organizers for the institute are Kathleen Cagney, PhD, Director of Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Joe Hotz, PhD, and David Meltzer, MD, PhD, University of Chicago.
Funding
This event is supported by two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Aging (NIA) P30 AG066619 and NIA P30 AG034424.