Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates
and Socioeconomic Disparities
Meeting #1
February 11-12, 2019
Keck Center, E Street Conference Room
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
| 9:00 – 9:30 am | Welcome, Introductions, Overview of Agenda |
| Mary Ellen O’Connell, Executive Director, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) | |
| Kathleen Mullan Harris (Committee Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Malay Majmundar, Study Director |
| 9:30 – 10:00 am | Overview of the National Academies Study Process – What Lies Ahead |
| Mary Ellen O’Connell, Executive Director, DBASSE | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 am | Sponsor Interests and Perspectives; Discussion of Statement of Task |
| Amelia Karraker, National Institute on Aging | |
| Kerry Anne McGeary, Senior Program Officer, Research-Evaluation-Learning, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 am | BREAK |
| 11:15 am–12:00 pm | Mid-Life Mortality: Overview of Trends and Differentials |
| Ryan Masters, University of Colorado Boulder | |
| 12:00 – 12:40 pm | LUNCH (discussion continues) |
| 12:40 – 2:00 pm | Behavioral Factors, Life-Course Perspectives, and the Role of SES and the Health System: Highlights from the June 2017 Planning Meeting1 |
| Kathleen Mullan Harris (Committee Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| 2:00 – 5:15 pm | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 5:15 pm | Adjournment |
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1 See http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CPOP/DBASSE_180012.
| 9:00 am – 3:00 pm | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 3:00 pm | Adjournment |
Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities
Meeting #2
April 30 – May 1, 2019
Keck Center, Room 206
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
| 8:30 – 10:30 am | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 10:30 – 11:15 am | Understanding the Role of Economic Changes and Macroeconomic Shocks |
| Christopher Ruhm, University of Virginia | |
| (15 minute presentation followed by Q&A) | |
| 11:15 am – 12: 00 pm | Understanding Trends in Optimism/Wellness/Despair |
| Carol Graham, Brookings Institution | |
| (15 minute presentation followed by Q&A) | |
| 12:00 – 12:45 pm | LUNCH |
| 12:45 – 1:30 pm | Understanding Family Structure and the Life Course |
| Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University | |
| (15 minute presentation followed by Q&A) |
| 1:30 – 2:00 pm | General Discussion |
| 2:00 – 2:15 pm | BREAK |
| 2:15 – 5:00 pm | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 5:00 pm | Adjournment |
| 9:00 am – 3:00 pm | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 3:00 pm | Adjournment |
Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities
Meeting #3
July 18-19, 2019
Keck Center, Room 208
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
| 8:30 – 8:45 am | Welcome and Overview of Agenda |
| 8:45 – 9:45 am | Anne Case (Princeton University) |
| Will discuss updates to her research on midlife mortality | |
| 9:45 – 10:00 am | BREAK |
| 10:00 – 11:00 am | Erika Blacksher (University of Washington) |
| Will discuss concepts of “whiteness” and the potential relevance of race/racism as it relates to midlife mortality | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 am | General Discussion |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | LUNCH |
| 12:30 – 5:00 pm | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 5:00 pm | Adjournment |
| 9:00 am – 3:00 pm | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 3:00 pm | Adjournment |
Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities
Meeting #4
October 21-22, 2019
Keck Center, Room 101
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
| 8:30 – 8:45 am | Welcome and Overview of Agenda |
| 8:45 – 9:45 am | Jennifer Silva (Indiana University Bloomington) |
| Will discuss qualitative/ethnographic work relating to mid-life mortality, including on sentiments on “hopelessness” and “despair” and how they affect health | |
| 9:45 – 10:00 am | BREAK |
| 10:00 – 11:00 am | Kathleen Frydl |
| Will provide an overview of the role played by opioids and other drugs, as well as historical/political/regulatory context for supply- and demand-side forces |
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | LUNCH |
| 1:00 – 5:30 pm | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 5:30 pm | Adjournment |
| 9:00 am – 3:30 pm | CLOSED SESSION (committee and staff only) |
| 3:30 pm | Adjournment |