ABOUT US
The Gateway to Global Aging Data is a data and information platform developed to facilitate longitudinal and cross-country analyses on aging, especially those using the family of Health and Retirement Studies (HRS) around the world. The Gateway indexes and extensively documents study designs and survey questionnaires. So far, the Gateway has catalogued surveys from 18 studies in 45 countries from 1992 to 2020. Additionally, for many of these surveys, the Gateway also creates and releases Harmonized datafiles which are comprised of variables representing a subset of the original survey data and have been defined to be as comparable as possible across different studies. The Gateway is funded by the National Institute on Aging and all data and documentation are available to researchers without cost.
our team
Our international team who build and support the Gateway, consists of researchers, programmers, and software engineers based at the Center for Economic and Social Research, the University of Southern California and partner institutions around the world. Email our team at help@g2aging.org.
Principal Investigators

Jinkook Lee
University of Southern California

Sara Adar
University of Michigan

Alden Gross
Johns Hopkins University

David Knapp
University of Southern California
Management Team

Erik Meijer
University of Southern California

Drystan Phillips
University of Southern California

Bas Weerman
University of Southern California

Jenny Wilkens
University of Southern California
Programming Team

Yizhou Chen
University of Southern California

Yuxuan Wang
University of Southern California

Chrys Xie
University of Southern California

Codi Young
University of Southern California

Ziqi Zhou
University of Southern California

Michael Markot
University of Southern California

Sarah Gao
University of Southern California
Research Support Team

Sandy Chien
University of Southern California

Maya Fransz-Myers
University of Southern California

Yeeun Lee Yoo
University of Southern California

Rachel Lobo
University of Southern California

Kelly Luo
University of Southern California

Qinyi Ouyang
University of Southern California

Sarah Petrosyan
University of Southern California

Alejandra Tantamango
University of Southern California

Michael Upchurch
University of Southern California

Maya Wedemeyer
University of Southern California

McKayla Wenner
University of Southern California

Hae Yeun Park
University of Southern California

Sterling Couts
University of Southern California

Adrianna Rojas
University of Southern California

Ava Bindas
University of Southern California

Eden Wetzel
University of Southern California

Haotian Tang
University of Southern California
Web Engineering Team

Aidan Cole
University of Southern California

Hooman Gol
University of Southern California

Danish Rajesh Jain
University of Southern California
Investigative Team

Jennifer Ailshire
University of Southern California

Marco Angrisani
University of Southern California

Rose Anne Kenny
Trinity College Dublin

Miguel Arce Rentería
Columbia University

Mauricio Avendano
University of Lausanne

Michael Brauer
University of British Columbia

David Bravo
The Catholic University of Chile

Emily Briceño-Abreu
University of Michigan

Agar Brugiavini
Università Ca'Foscari Venezia

Harish C. Phuleria
India Institute of Technology

Dorina Cadar
University College London

Ludovico Carrino
University of Trieste

Maria Casanova
California State University, Fullerton

Magdalena Delaporte
Catholic University of Chile

William Dow
University of California, Berkeley

Irma Elo
University of Pennsylvania

Elissa Epel
UCSF School of Medicine

Carina Gronlund
University of Michigan

Hideki Hashimoto
University of Tokyo School of Public Health

Peifeng Hu
UCLA School of Medicine

Wei Huang
Peking University

Ruth Hunter
Queen’s University Belfast

Richard Jones
Brown University

Frank Kee
Queen's University Belfast

Kayleigh Keller
Colorado State University

Lindsay Kobayashi
University of Michigan

Maciej Lis
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

Ying Liu
University of Southern California

Mao-Mei Liu
University of California, Berkeley

Ana Llena-Nozal
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

Seán Lyons
Trinity College Dublin

Norma Mansor
University of Malaya

Bernadette McGuinness
Queen's University Belfast

Jennifer McKinley
Queen's University Belfast

Alejandra Michaels Obregon
University of Texas, Medical Branch

Lauren Nicholas
University of Colorado

Emma Nichols
University of Southern California

Anne Nolan
Trinity College Dublin

Giacomo Pasini
Università Ca'Foscari Venezia

Jere R. Behrman
University of Pennsylvania

Gavin Shaddick
University of Exeter

Joshua Snoke
RAND Corporation

Andrew Steptoe
University College London

Morten Wahrendorf
Department of Medical Sociology, University of Düsseldorf

Rebeca Wong
University of Texas, Medical Branch

Paola Zaninotto
University College London

Yaohui Zhao
Peking University

Francisco Perez-Arce
University of Southern California
Advisors

Eileen Crimmins
University of Southern California

Maria Glymour
University of California, San Francisco

Arie Kapteyn
University of Southern California

David Weir
University of Michigan