Featured News and Research Highlights

July 22, 2026

Parent Set Bedtimes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Evidence from the Add Health Study

Previous research shows that parent-set bedtimes help lower adolescents’ risk of important cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. However, there is a gap in the research regarding whether this practice affects CVD risk factors later in life. Using nationally representative data from Waves I and IV of Add Health, researchers examined...

July 16, 2026

Society for Prevention Research data challenge competition features Add Health

Each year at their annual meeting, the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) sponsors a friendly competition among teams of early-career researchers. Named for two of the founders and long-time active members of SPR, Dr. Zili Sloboda and Dr. William Bukoski, the competition charges teams of scientists to develop a research...

July 7, 2026

Persistent Infections and Biological Aging: Evidence from the Add Health Study

Widespread persistent infections have been found to elicit chronic immune activation, with implications for the body’s immune system and biological functions as people age. Using nationally representative data from Waves IV and V of Adult Health, Jennifer Momkius et al. investigated whether these associations extend earlier into adulthood and whether...

June 8, 2026

Former Add Health Director, Kathleen Mullan Harris, this year’s recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Population Section Distinguished Career Award

Few scholars have shaped the sociology of population as profoundly as Kathleen Mullan Harris. As Director and Principal Investigator of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) from 2004 to 2021, and through her continuing leadership of the Add Health Parent Study, Kathie built one of...