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...five-year Roybal Center grant from the NIA—a part of the National Institutes of Health—seeks to help society acclimatize to an aging population, according to Richard M. Suzman ’64, director of the NIA’s Division of Behavioral and Social Research, which funds the Roybal Centers. Christakis and Laibson will lead two of the four newly designated Centers...
Laibson, whose Roybal Center is based at the National Bureau of Economic Research, said that he will utilize his grant money to focus on the influence of behavior in health. Using a combination of psychology and economics, Laibson said his objective is to encourage successful financial decision-making practices and devise new interventions to improve health outcomes...
...turn, Christakis’ Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging will explore the relationship between social networks and health problems, including obesity and cancer. Christakis’ lab director Thomas Keegan said that the research is based upon the premise that knowledge alone is insufficient, and must be translated into action to yield positive change...
Keegan said that the Roybal grant’s appeal lies in its encouragement of translational research—which allows for a more comprehensive, sociological view of health issues—and its ability to directly impact people’s wellbeing...