A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and execute a two-day public workshop that will bring together an interdisciplinary group of experts to discuss behavioral and social research and data priorities for studying life course health, aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The workshop will focus on three priority topics: inequality, environmental exposures, and changes in family structure. The workshop will:

· Identify research priorities related to the impacts of inequality, environmental exposure, and family changes on the health and well-being of older populations in LMICs, with an emphasis on how existing data resources may be leveraged to address these topics.

· Discuss how country-specific research in LMICs can create a better understanding of how different social environments and public policies influence health outcomes related to aging; and how findings from country-specific LMIC research may be generalized to other settings, including the United States.

· Identify new conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and/or data investments that are needed to move from purely descriptive cross-national analyses to more causal analyses that create a better understanding of how inequality, environmental exposures, and changing family structures impact health and well-being at older ages in LMICs.

· Identify data (early-life prospective data or retrospective data from current older cohorts) that may be of interest for examining life-course trajectories of development and aging in LMICs.

After the workshop, a proceedings of the workshop, summarizing the presentations and discussions at the workshop, will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.