Institute of Public and International Affairs

Funded Research Projects

Study	Principal Investigator	Funding Agency
Family Health Histories and Retirement Planning	Cathleen Zick	National Institute on Aging
Urban/Rural Disparities in Health and Mortality in China	Zachary Zimmer	National Institute of Health
Urban Land Expansion in China: A Study of Suzhou City	Dennis Wei	The University of Utah seed grants
Modeling Disability Trajectories in Rapidly Aging Populations	Zachary Zimmer	National Institute on Aging
1.245 million dollar grant will fund study of neighborhood social and built environments effect on body weight and physical activity in a national sample	Ming Wen, Lori Kowaleski-Jones and Ikuho Yamada	National Institute of Health
The Impact of Migration on the Family and Intergenerational Solidarity in Rural Cambodia	Zachary Zimmer	Doha International Institute for Family Studies & Development
Integration of the Undocumented and Documented in a New Destination: Utah	Ken Jameson	Russell Sage Foundation
NSF Workshop on Interpretive Method	Peri Scwartz-Shea	National Science Foundation
Neighborhood Characteristics and Body Mass Index: Selection or Causation?	Ken Smith, Lori Kowaleski-Jones	National Institute of Health
Remaking Development Models in China	Dennis Wei	Ford Foundation
The Impact of Transnational Corporations on Innovation and Regional Development in China	Dennis Wei	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Disability Trajectories among Older Adults in China and Taiwan	Zachary Zimmer	University of Utah Center on Aging
Retirement Planning Responses to Economic Shocks	Cathleen Zick, Rob Mayer	University of Utah Center on Aging
A Comparative Study of ICT Industry Development in the Beijing, Shanghai-Suzhou, and Shenzhen-Dongguan City Regions in China	Dennis Wei	National Science Foundation

Past Projects
Utah-Mexico Project