Pre-Doc Professional Development Promoting the Study of Minority Elders: Secondary Data Resources at the NACDA

(Although the public is welcome to attend, these sessions are student targeted)

James McNally, PhD
Director, NACDA Program on Aging
Research Investigator/Archivist
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Institute of Social Research (ISR)
University of Michigan

Presentation Summary
NACDA is located within the University of Michigan's Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and is funded by the National Institute on Aging. NACDA's mission is to advance research on aging by helping researchers to profit from the under-exploited potential of a broad range of datasets.

NACDA acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use. By preserving and making available the largest library of electronic data on aging in the United States, NACDA offers opportunities for secondary analysis on major issues of scientific and policy relevance.

Speaker's Research Interests
James McNally is the Director of the NACDA Program on Aging, a data archive containing over 1,500 studies related to health and the aging lifecourse. Originally trained in formal demography at Georgetown University, Dr. McNally developed an interest in gerontology while at Brown University and in policy research while at Syracuse University's Center for Policy Research. He works primarily on issues of family support and health among the aged, both in the United States and internationally. He does methodological research on the repair of deficient data and has been cited as an expert authority on imputation in deliberations before the U.S. Supreme Court. Most recently, he has been studying the impacts of heterogeneity on health outcomes among elderly U.S. Asian/Pacific Islander populations.

Presented courtesy of the Mary Thompson Foundation- Please Attend

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