The Age Boom Academy: October 2023
This generation and the ones to follow it will live very long lives. But where? And how well? And most importantly,
how do cumulative disadvantage and access to different housing options affect health as we age?
These are the themes fellows will explore in our 2023 Age Boom Academy. In its third decade, Columbia University's signature media training to deepen reporting on issues around aging is a fellowship program of the Columbia Journalism School, the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.
how do cumulative disadvantage and access to different housing options affect health as we age?
These are the themes fellows will explore in our 2023 Age Boom Academy. In its third decade, Columbia University's signature media training to deepen reporting on issues around aging is a fellowship program of the Columbia Journalism School, the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.
ANNOUNCING OUR 2023 FELLOWS!
If you are a member of the media and wish to obtain information about future calls for applications for the competitively selective Academy, please send an email to: ColumbiaAgingCenter@cumc.columbia.edu.
ACADEMY LEADERSHIP
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH - Director, Age Boom Academy
Caitlin M. Hawke - Project Lead, Age Boom Academy
Bruce Shapiro - Co-director, Age Boom Academy
Jennifer P. Ware, Event Manager, Age Boom Academy
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH - Director, Age Boom Academy
Caitlin M. Hawke - Project Lead, Age Boom Academy
Bruce Shapiro - Co-director, Age Boom Academy
Jennifer P. Ware, Event Manager, Age Boom Academy
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The Age Boom Academy fellowship has been one of the most rewarding fellowship experiences of my life. Thank you! Jaya Padmanabhan, Journalist 2022 Age Boom Fellow |
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The Columbia Aging Center’s signature media training was founded by globally recognized geriatric pioneer Robert N. Butler, MD, and prize-winning New York Times editor and writer Jack Rosenthal as an intensive, high-impact training seminar for journalists, editors and producers in all media – print, on air and online – to deepen understanding of the health, economic and social issues around aging.
Run in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School, the 2023 Age Boom Academy will cover the topic of America's Housing Crisis and Our Longer Lives. The 2022 Academy focused on caregiving and aging. The 2021 Academy covered the causes and solutions of loneliness in aging. Those resources are available to all media members. F |
The goal of the Age Boom Academy is to engage and train working members of the media in current science and policies related to longevity. This is the sole training for a competitively selected group of journalists to focus on current housing issues through the lens of healthy longevity.
Speakers for 2023 will include Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health; Bruce Shapiro, Director, Dart Center, Columbia Journalism School; John Beard, Director of the ILC-USA and former director of Ageing and Life Course at the WHO; New Old Age NYT columnist Paula Span; NYT editorial board member Michelle Cottle and nearly two dozen top national researchers, advocates, practioners and developers. Other noted journalists covering aging will assist in the training and include: Richard Eisenberg, Chris Farrell, Kerry Hannon, Carol Hymowitz and others. |
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Age Boom Academy has received generous grant funding from The RRF Foundation for Aging.
Age Boom Academy also acknowledges past support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies and the AARP Foundation.
Contact ColumbiaAgingCenter@cumc.columbia.edu for more information.