USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH)

The USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH) is one of 16 centers in the Demography and Economics of Aging Centers Program and has been sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) as a joint center combining epidemiological and demographic expertise for over 15 years. The overarching goal of the Center is to enhance understanding of biological processes that contribute to population health at older ages and drive health disparities among disadvantaged sub-populations. The Center represents a unique and highly successful collaboration between the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology in the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), each of which focuses on research and teaching on aging. Since its inception in 1999, the CBPH has leveraged the unique combination of demographic and epidemiological expertise of the Center directors, along with the interdisciplinary expertise of Center faculty affiliates, to become a leader in the development of the field of biodemography.  The Center is at the forefront of integrating innovative biological measurement into population-based studies through theory-driven approaches, and it remains deeply committed to the ongoing development and validation of biological measurement protocols.

CBPH is dedicated to providing a synergistic research environment for the integration and translation of research findings from a variety of disciplines to understand population health. The Center takes a multidisciplinary approach by linking demographers, biologists, economists, psychologists, epidemiologists, health policy specialists, medical researchers and clinical geriatricians. This integration of biological, epidemiologic and medical risk information which characterizes Center research is fundamental to understanding and projecting demographic trends and differences in population health. Through the External Research Resources Support Core (ERRSC), the CBPH provides consulting services to support the integration of biomarkers and contextual data into population-based studies of health and aging. This is done through a Biomarker Sub-Core and a Contextual Data Sub-Core. 

For more information, please visit the USC/UCLA CBPH website.

Last updated
November 25, 2025