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Health Disparities Research Working Group | February 20, 2025
February 20 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CST
The Military Exposome and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: Research Opportunities
W. Ryan Powell, MA PhD is an Associate Director for the Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He has over 20 years of experience conducting quantitative social science research with a focus on the social exposome, methods development, mechanistic health disparities research, and veteran health.
The military exposome represents all the military conditions and contexts experienced throughout an individual’s military service, including greater exposure to known and yet to be uncovered Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias risk factors. For the February Health Disparities Research Working Group meeting, Ryan will be seeking feedback from the group on a grant proposal he is in the process of developing to understand of the role that the military exposome has in shaping Alzheimer’s disease and related AD disparities.