Research labs in the Center for Gerontology & Healthcare Research bring faculty, staff, and collaborators together around shared areas of expertise and infrastructure to support sustained, collaborative research. They highlight CGHCR’s core strengths, foster team-based science, and make it easier for partners and investigators to connect with researchers working on related topics.
Center for Gerontology & Healthcare Research
Research Labs & Initiatives
Research Labs
Q&I serves as CGHCR’s translational research arm, partnering with healthcare providers, health systems, and innovators to conduct partner-engaged pragmatic research to improve care for older adults in real-world settings.
PEARL aims to serve as a hub for researchers, trainees, and partners working on research on pharmaceuticals and drug policy. PEARL’s mission is to foster and advance cross-disciplinary research on medications using a broad range of real-world data sources and descriptive, pragmatic, econometric, qualitative, and causal methodologies.
Research Initiatives
LTCfocus.org provides data on nursing home care in the US. Our goal is to allow researchers to trace relationships between state policies, local market forces, and the quality of long-term care and enable policymakers to craft state and local guidelines that promote high-quality, cost-effective, equitable care for older Americans.
The Center on Heat, Health, and Aging Innovation and Research Solutions for Communities (CHAIRS-C) is designed to support collaboration between researchers investigating a breadth of current and emerging climate and aging research topics and community partners whose experiences and priorities will help to accelerate the drive toward effective policies and practices.
The mission of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) IMbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is to build the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials of interventions embedded within health care systems for people living with dementia and their care partners.