The mission of the Center for Research in Society and Health is to promote well-being at the individual, societal, and institutional levels in a global context of demographic, epidemiological, technological, and environmental change. To fulfill this mission, the center's objectives are to conduct excellent interdisciplinary research with practical and public policy implications, train new researchers, and disseminate evidence to broad audiences.

Our research strengths are grouped into three core areas:

(1) social and life-course determinants of health and aging,

(2) social relations and social cohesion, and

(3) institutions and regulation from an international and comparative perspective.

To study these topics, we use mixed methods and take advantage of the new opportunities emerging in an era of large datasets that extend "from cells to society."