LASI-Financial & Collaborating Institutions

LASI: Financial Sponsors

•  Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Govt. of India

•  Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE), Govt. of India

•  National Institute on Aging (NIA)/ National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

•  United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), India

 

LASI: Collaborating Institutions

The Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) is designed in partnership between the following national and international institutions.

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), an autonomous institution/university under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Govt. of India, is the nodal institution for LASI design and implementation.

Principal Investigator : Prof. T. V. Sekher

 

International Collaborating Institutions

 

Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), USA – lead collaborating institution from USA.

Principal Investigator : Prof. David E. Bloom

University of Southern California (USC), USA – Collaborating Institution from USA.

Principal Investigator : Prof. Jinkook Lee

 

National Collaborating Institutions

          

National Programme for Health Care of Elderly (NPHCE) and Regional Geriatric Centers under NCD division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India - Collaborating organizations for implementation of LASI project.

SAGE

National AIDS Research Institute (ICMR-NARI), Pune, collaborating institution for storage and molecular biomarker testing of DBS.

Chest Research Foundation (CRF), Pune, collaborating institution for technical support in conducting lung function test using spirometry.

 

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