Overview
The Center for Healthy Population Aging (CHEPA) builds on UT Health San Antonio’s strengths in Hispanic aging and population based longitudinal studies in aging with a wide socio-economic perspective. The Center seeks to foster communication and collaboration between investigators and scholars with a shared interest in population aging with a life-course perspective and with an emphasis on past migration, childhood conditions, and socio-economic and health disparities.
UT Health San Antonio has an outstanding group of investigators funded by NIH and other agencies in the areas of Hispanic aging, chronic conditions, physical and cognitive function, lifestyle and behavioral patterns, with deep interest in social determinants of health.
Research Training
- Short Courses to advance cross-national research on aging and cognitive function (R25 AG095799)
This initiative seeks to advance the health of the U.S. population by promoting research on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (AD/ADRD) using population-based data with a focus on cross-national comparisons among the U.S., Mexico, and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research training project is led by investigators at Arizona State University, the University of Texas San Antonio, and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and supported by the National Institute on Aging.
Main Research Projects
CHEPA investigators are involved in a variety of funded research projects that supports the mission of the center such as:
- Mexican Health and Aging Study (R01 AG018016)
- San Antonio Heart and Mind Study (R01 AG082360)
- San Antonio Center for AD/ADRD Population Aging and Social Studies (P30 AG097142)
- South Texas Alzheimer’s Disease Center Population Neuroscience (P30 AG066546)
- Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) (P30 AG059306)
- Health of Aging Mexicans on Both Sides of the Border (R01 AG068392)
- Cross-national research on aging and cognitive function: English/Spanish courses with the Mexican Health and Aging Study and HRS/HCAP global partner studies (R25 AG095799)
- Avanzando Caminos (Leading Pathways): The Hispanic/Latino Cancer Survivorship Cohort Study (UG3CA260317)
- Avanzando Equidad de Salud: Latino Cancer Health Equity (CHERC-MSI-22-182-01-American Cancer Society)