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About the Robert N. Butler-Jack Rosenthal Age Boom Academy
Led by Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH; and Bruce Shapiro, the Butler-Rosenthal Age Boom Academy was conceived by pioneering geriatrician Robert N. Butler and renowned journalist, editor and New York Times executive Jack Rosenthal. Caitlin Hawke is the Senior Science and Strategy Officer at the Columbia Aging Center and is the senior project lead for the Age Boom Academy.
The Academy was launched in 2000 as an intensive training for journalists, editors, and producers in all media — print, on air and online. A signature program of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center run in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School, the Age Boom Academy is a forum in which to train journalists about the complex health, social, and economic issues facing our aging population. Nearly 200 journalists have participated in one or more of the annual Age Boom Academies since its inception.
Bringing together the resources of a top-tier research university, the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center uniquely incorporates a range of disciplines from the medical sciences to urban planning to architecture, including the humanities and the social sciences in between, to study and better understand the aging process and its societal implications.
The 2021 Academy, "Combatting Loneliness in Aging: Toward a 21st Century Blueprint for Societal Connectedness," will be held online in May and June 2021.
Led by Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH; and Bruce Shapiro, the Butler-Rosenthal Age Boom Academy was conceived by pioneering geriatrician Robert N. Butler and renowned journalist, editor and New York Times executive Jack Rosenthal. Caitlin Hawke is the Senior Science and Strategy Officer at the Columbia Aging Center and is the senior project lead for the Age Boom Academy.
The Academy was launched in 2000 as an intensive training for journalists, editors, and producers in all media — print, on air and online. A signature program of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center run in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School, the Age Boom Academy is a forum in which to train journalists about the complex health, social, and economic issues facing our aging population. Nearly 200 journalists have participated in one or more of the annual Age Boom Academies since its inception.
Bringing together the resources of a top-tier research university, the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center uniquely incorporates a range of disciplines from the medical sciences to urban planning to architecture, including the humanities and the social sciences in between, to study and better understand the aging process and its societal implications.
The 2021 Academy, "Combatting Loneliness in Aging: Toward a 21st Century Blueprint for Societal Connectedness," will be held online in May and June 2021.