SPARC (Southern Population Aging Research Center)

SPARC logo featuring the acronym “SPARC” in large teal letters beside a circular abstract design in teal, gold, and black. Below the acronym, smaller text reads “Southern Population Aging Research Center.”

A Population Aging Research Center Focused on Building Research Infrastructure in the U.S. South

The Southern Population Aging Research Center (SPARC) is a National Institute on Aging-funded Demography & Economics of Aging Center focused on fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, supporting innovative research, promoting the public dissemination of research, and building capacity in the U.S. South to improve population aging through innovative research and robust dissemination.

For more information, please visit SPARC’s official site:
https://www.sparc-aging.org/

Stylized map of the southern and eastern United States, with two gold markers connected by a diagonal gold line from Alabama to Maine.

 

SPARC is a multi-institutional research center in the U.S. South, co-led by:

(1) University of Maryland, College Park (UMD)
Dr. Katrina Walsemann

(2) University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Dr. Mieke Thomeer

(3) University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Dr. Christine Mair

 

SPARC is a P30 Demography & Economics of Aging Center funded by the National Institute on Aging
(1P30AG097132)