MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch
The MLSFH is a publicly-available cohort study in a sub-Saharan low-income context. Principal Investigator @HansPKohler. Partners @Penn, @unimaCOM, @IKImalawi. MLSFHresearch.org Philadelphia, PA Joined March 2020-
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Does a better understanding of mortality risks translate into less risky sex? Quite possibly! At least in SSA countries where pessimism about survival is common. See new @MLSFHresearch in the Economic Journal doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Great work @CiancioAlberto and team @PennPARC
MLSFH is featured in Penn News today: Two-and-a-half decades of research in Malawi penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-and-h… Plus, great photo of MLSFH team on Penn's Locust Walk! @PennPARC @KUHeS_mw
CALL FOR PAPERS!! UAPS is pleased to announce that submissions for papers are open for the 2024 African Population Conference. Read more on the call for abstracts here: uaps-uepa.org/call-for-paper… Deadline for submissions - February 12, 2024
@MLSFHreserch collaborator Rachel Kidman (SUNY) is presenting on "Adversity & HIV Risk in Adolescents: Longitudinal findings from Malawi and South Africa" at @PennPSC @PennPARC Colloquim. Mon Jan 22 noon ET. Join if you can! aging.upenn.edu/events/2024/01…
@MLSFHresearch has a new home on the web: MLSFHresearch.org Our old website needed an overhaul, and we finally made the jump to a new URL. Check it out at MLSFHresearch.org, and send us comments and updates!
@MLSFHresearch documenting divergent trajectories of aging: Resilience, accelerated aging and persistently good good. Just out in PDR, adding to @PennPARC global aging studies! Great work Cung Hong, @IlianaKohler and Team. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…
Great opportunity to work with @MLSFHresearch on innovative research on aging in Malawi
Great opportunity to work with @MLSFHresearch on innovative research on aging in Malawi
Just released @MLSFHresearch: Barker’s Hypothesis Among the Global Poor,” is one of the first studies to document "a positive effect of in utero adversity on later-life cardiovascular health…consistent w/ epigenetic causes of disease" @PennPARC ow.ly/ii4S50Q5vHt
The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health at the University of Pennsylvania's Population Aging Research Center (PARC) is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Aging APPLY HERE: apply.interfolio.com/126051
@MLSFHresearch Team having some fun: 2nd place for Simeon in Miles for Malawi @Pamoza_INTL
@MLSFHresearch @HansPKohler @NIA_BSR @laurenlschmitz @UWLaFollette Co-Investigators at @PennPARC include Jere Behrman & @IlianaKohler ▶️READ the latest MLSFH Newsletter bit.ly/3nzkzZ1 With additional collaborators from @KUHeS_mw, Invest In Knowledge Initiative, @PrincetonUniversity, Univ of British Columbia, @Princeton & @Columbia.
Congratulations to the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families & Health (@MLSFHresearch) Team led by @HansPKohler (PI) for being awarded @NIA_BSR R01 grant: "Adversity, Aging and ADRD Risk among the Global Poor: A Biosocial Lifecourse Approach" w/ MPI @laurenlschmitz @UWLaFollette
UAPS is coming to Malawi. Let's make sure there will be a strong @MLSFHresearch presence in May '24.
UAPS is coming to Malawi. Let's make sure there will be a strong @MLSFHresearch presence in May '24.
Great honor to present today about @MLSFHresearch at the 79th RSC Research Seminar at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences @KUHeS_mw. Many engaged and motivated students, some of whom will hopefully join in @MLSFHresearch!
Celebrated 25 years (1998-2023) of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health @MLSFHresearch with representatives of the study districts and stake holders. Thank you Rumphi, Mchinji & Balaka for your feedback and support of @MLSFHresearch! @PennPARC @PennPSC @KUHeS_mw
A few days left to apply for Summer Institute on Ageing 2022 at Venice International University, with focus on Global Ageing: Low- and Middle-income Country Challenges univiu.org/study/summer-s… @PennPARC @MLSFHresearch
@PennPARC & @PennLDI Researchers @HansPKohler (PARC Co-Director) & @IlianaKohler's work on a long time project in Malawi, @MLSFHresearch is featured in a research update ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…
New Working Paper by @CiancioAlberto, Behrman, Kämpfen, @IlianaKohler, Maurer, @vmwap, @HansPKohler "Barker’s Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-term Cardiovascular Effects of In-utero Famine Exposure" @MLSFHresearch @PennPARC @PennPSC #aging repository.upenn.edu/psc_publicatio…
A team led by LDI Senior Fellow @IlianaKohler won @theNAMedicine Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge Catalyst Award supporting #aging & health-related research in Malawi, Africa. Congratulations to Iliana and @HansPKohler! @PennPARC @PennPSC ldi.upenn.edu/news/penn-popu…
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Two-and-a-half decades of research in Malawi: As the country’s life expectancy has risen, the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health has shifted its current and future research to Aging! @MLSFHresearch has a NEW website: mlsfhresearch.org penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-and-h…
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