Featured News and Research Highlights

September 1, 2026

Wave VII of Add Health is now funded!

We are thrilled to report that the National Institute on Aging, with support from several co-funding NIH institutes, has funded the Wave VII project, which will collect survey, cognitive, home exam, contextual, and administrative data from consenting Add Health participants. Wave VII data collection is slated to begin in summer...

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...