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AFAR Webinar: Unpacking Biohacking for Longevity

    Thursday, March 12, 2026 | 12-1pm ET / 9-10am PT

    Biohacking is a rapidly rising approach to extending health that combines science, lifestyle changes, smart tools, proactive diagnostics, and actionable biodata, with aims of "optimizing" cellular function and vitality. At its most accessible, biohacking approaches include tracking through wearables and biosensors and lifestyle interventions like diet and sleep. At its most extreme, other biohacking strategies include conducting self-experimentation outside of a lab setting or implanting technology to enhance physical abilities.


    Proponents pose that biohacking can help advance personalized medicine to extend healthspan, while skeptics raise concerns of ethics, access, and scientific rigor. The upcoming free webinar is a highly scientific, evidence-based discussion on the topic with leading medical doctors and academics.




    Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit

      The Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit will be held virtually on March 17-19, 2026. The Summit offers a vital opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made in dementia care and caregiving research, as well as to address the persistent and emerging needs of people living with dementia, their care partners, and the communities and health systems that support them.


      The 2026 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit will cover:

      • Economic impacts of dementia

      • Individual and community partnerships for people living with dementia

      • Dementia care and caregiving interventions: advancing rigorous intervention development

      • Dementia care models and care coordination strategies across systems and states

      • Advances in AD/ADRD data infrastructure to support dementia care and caregiving research

      • Sharing lived experiences from people living with dementia, care partners, and family and community members


      In addition to the Summit itself, we will host a virtual Pre-Summit Listening Session.

      Whether you're a care partner/caregiver, an interest holder, living with dementia yourself, or a passionate member of the dementia care and caregiving community, your insights are vital. Join the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging (NIA) for a FREE virtual Pre-Summit Listening Session to share your ideas for consideration at the 2026 Dementia Care and Caregiving Research Summit. Summit organizers are holding this event to ensure the agenda reflects our collective vision.


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      IMPACT Grand Rounds: Learn As you Go (LAGO) Design

        Thursday, February 19, 2026 |  12:00 – 1:00 pm ET


        Donna Spiegelman, Sc.D., is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University’s School of Public Health and Director of Yale’s Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS). She is a former NIH Director’s Pioneer Award recipient (2014–2020), recognized for her work developing innovative methods for implementation and prevention science.


        Dr. Spiegelman’s research focuses on the development, adaptation, and dissemination of rigorous methodological approaches to address the unique challenges of implementation research. Her work spans the design of stepped wedge, cluster randomized, and “Learn as You Go” trials; causal inference for non-randomized implementation studies; mediation analysis to elucidate pathways linking implementation strategies, implementation outcomes, and health outcomes; methods for assessing spillover effects within social and organizational networks; and approaches to enhance the external generalizability of implementation studies to support scale-up and scale-out. She leads and supports implementation research aimed at preventing cervical cancer, cardiometabolic disease, and HIV/AIDS across diverse settings in the United States, Nepal, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda.


        About IMPACT Grand Rounds

        The IMPACT Collaboratory is hosting webinars on the 3rd Thursday of each month, addressing issues in conducting embedded pragmatic clinical trials on non-pharmacological interventions for people living with dementia and their care partners. The next session will feature Donna Spiegelman, Sc.D.



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