MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health

MLSFH is a publicly-available cohort study in a sub-Saharan low-income context. Principal Investigator @HansPKohler. Partners @Penn, @KUHeS_mw, @Compelling_work

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

New @MLSFHresearch, directly relevant also for understanding current cuts to global HIV programs. @PennPARC @PennPSC

[Alberto Ciancio @CiancioAlberto]

Our paper is out!
Health information can be deadly without treatment.
In Malawi (2004), before ART, HIV+ people who learned their status were 23pp less likely to survive over six years than those unaware.
If fatalism returns, cuts to ART programs could be even deadlier.

[Population Aging Research Center at Penn @PennPARC]

"Surviving Bad News: Health Information without Treatment Options" is forthcoming in @AmericanEconomicReview: Insights by @CiancioAlberto Fabrice Kämpfen @HansPKohler & Rebecca Thornton

Working paper https://t.co/PTAxP90Fyv

AEA members:
https://t.co/ONMY42WlAZ
@nia_demography

[Hans-Peter Kohler @HansPKohler]

Our @MLSFHresearch in @PNASNews on mortality perceptions and Covid vaccine update is featured in @PennPARC @PennLDI Policy Brief:
https://t.co/gTICNDrfjY

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

We saddened that Susan Watkins passed away. She is the "mother" of Let's Chat, and we owe to her the legacy that helped create @MLSFHresearch. We are proud to be continuing the work she initiated in 1998. Memories of our times with her stay with us forever. @PennPSC @PennPARC

[PennPSC @PennPSC]

New @PennPSC working paper by @ADelavande, @HansPKohler & @AliYasinV

The study uses data from @MLSFHresearch to examine the relationship between infant mortality and fertility in Malawi.

READ THE STUDY: https://t.co/qU2eYUaEh8

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

Mortality risk misperceptions matter! @MLSFHresearch in @PNASNews shows that providing individuals with accurate information about survival risk improves health behaviors 5years after intervention during Covid19. https://t.co/tT0YTeLf21. Great work MLSFH team @PennPARC @KUHeS_mw

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

Does a better understanding of mortality risks translate into less risky sex? Quite possibly! At least in SSA countries where pessimism about survival is common. See new @MLSFHresearch in the Economic Journal https://t.co/CCgCV1h1Nf Great work @CiancioAlberto and team @PennPARC

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

MLSFH is featured in Penn News today: Two-and-a-half decades of research in Malawi https://t.co/gNVtbuglCL
Plus, great photo of MLSFH team on Penn's Locust Walk! @PennPARC @KUHeS_mw

[UAPS/UEPA @UAPS_UEPA]

CALL FOR PAPERS!!
UAPS is pleased to announce that submissions for papers are open for the 2024 African Population Conference. Read more on the call for abstracts here: https://t.co/aj6IgT7LY0
Deadline for submissions - February 12, 2024

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

@MLSFHreserch collaborator Rachel Kidman (SUNY) is presenting on "Adversity & HIV Risk in Adolescents: Longitudinal findings from Malawi and South Africa" at @PennPSC @PennPARC Colloquim. Mon Jan 22 noon ET. Join if you can! https://t.co/DWH8UTPn7i

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

@MLSFHresearch has a new home on the web: https://t.co/MZ620wQtmz Our old website needed an overhaul, and we finally made the jump to a new URL. Check it out at https://t.co/MZ620wQtmz, and send us comments and updates!

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

@MLSFHresearch documenting divergent trajectories of aging: Resilience, accelerated aging and persistently good good. Just out in PDR, adding to @PennPARC global aging studies! Great work Cung Hong, @IlianaKohler and Team. https://t.co/OBZzwqvEaf

[Hans-Peter Kohler @HansPKohler]

Great opportunity to work with @MLSFHresearch on innovative research on aging in Malawi

[Hans-Peter Kohler @HansPKohler]

Just released @MLSFHresearch: Barker’s Hypothesis Among the Global Poor,” is one of the first studies to document "a positive effect of in utero adversity on later-life cardiovascular health…consistent w/ epigenetic causes of disease" @PennPARC https://t.co/rloZOnR47o

[Population Aging Research Center at Penn @PennPARC]

The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health at the University of Pennsylvania's Population Aging Research Center (PARC) is looking for a

Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Aging

APPLY HERE: https://t.co/j8rUa16NlH

[Hans-Peter Kohler @HansPKohler]

@MLSFHresearch Team having some fun: 2nd place for Simeon in Miles for Malawi @Pamoza_INTL

[Population Aging Research Center at Penn @PennPARC]

@MLSFHresearch @HansPKohler @NIA_BSR @laurenlschmitz @UWLaFollette Co-Investigators at @PennPARC include Jere Behrman & @IlianaKohler

▶️READ the latest MLSFH Newsletter https://t.co/RynEpaWJ5i

With additional collaborators from @KUHeS_mw, Invest In Knowledge Initiative, @PrincetonUniversity, Univ of British Columbia, @Princeton & @Columbia.

[Population Aging Research Center at Penn @PennPARC]

Congratulations to the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families & Health (@MLSFHresearch) Team led by @HansPKohler (PI) for being awarded @NIA_BSR R01 grant: "Adversity, Aging and ADRD Risk among the Global Poor: A Biosocial Lifecourse Approach" w/ MPI @laurenlschmitz @UWLaFollette

[MLSFH: Malawi Longitudinal Study Families & Health @MLSFHresearch]

UAPS is coming to Malawi. Let's make sure there will be a strong @MLSFHresearch presence in May '24.

[UAPS/UEPA @UAPS_UEPA]

UAPS wishes to announce that the next African Population Conference (9th APC) will be held in May 2024 and will be hosted in Lilongwe by the Government of Malawi.

Read more at African Population Conferences | Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) (https://t.co/agnjoOGaRO)