2008 Add Health Users Conference materials available for download

The 2008 Add Health Users Conference was held in Bethesda, MD on July 24-25. Add Health data users, Wave IV program project investigators and ancillary study investigators presented over 50 abstracts and 6 methodology sessions to an audience of 140 attendees. The conference was organized by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the American Educational Research Association.  Selected conference materials are available here in pdf format.

2008 Users Conference Program (8 pages)

2008 Users Conference Abstracts (24 pages)

2008 Users Conference Selected Methodology Session Slideshows:

• Overview of Add Health Study and Design, Kathleen Mullan Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Add Health: The Obesity and Environment Project, Penny Gordon-Larsen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Using Genetic Data in the Add Health Sample, Andy Smolen and Brett Haberstick, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Using the Education Component, Chandra Muller, University of Texas, Ken Frank, Michigan State University, and Katy Schiller, University of Albany, SUNY
  
• Wave IV Biomarker Data in Add Health, Eric Whitsel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Analyzing Social Networks with Add Health, Hannah Brückner, Yale University