The Institute has a diverse set of research projects underway or in development on topics related to health and longevity. Several of the projects sit within health economics and deal with health status and its determinants in later life. There are also a number of projects which focus more closely on the policy implications of ageing populations for health and long-term care. Members of staff working in this area include Kenneth Howse, Martin Karlsson, Bleddyn Davies and Isabella Aboderin. 

Research is grouped under four broad themes:

> Methodologies for assessing the social impact of extreme changes in population age structure
   Policy making for ‘extreme-case’ demographic scenarios - Kenneth Howse (joint with PCAP)

> Longevity and Risk (joint with work and retirement research programme)

> Health status and its determinants

• The economics of family and health - Martin Karlsson
• Individualised life tables - Martin Karlsson
• The knowledgeable patient - Martin Karlsson
• Economic inequality and health - Martin Karlsson

> Health and social care for ageing populations

• Dimensions and social determinants of health in old age in Nigeria and Kenya: implications for policy - Isabella Aboderin
• The implications of population ageing for health and long-term care: policy challenges and responses in Asia, Europe and the Pacific - Kenneth Howse
• Fair and efficient targeting in subsidising social care for frail older people - Bleddyn Davies
• Equity and efficiency implications of changes in policy narratives for social and long-term care of frail older people since 1980 - Bleddyn Davies
• Independent living in Japan - Sarah Harper and George W. Leeson
• Models of Social Care in Japan - Sarah Harper and George W. Leeson
• Health and aging in Bangladesh. Socio-demographic changes at macro and micro levels and their impact on health and ageing issues in Bangladesh - Hafiz T.A. Khan
• Falls / Musculoskeletal disease and Older People in sub-Saharan Africa - Isabella Aboderin, Kenneth Howse and Jaco Hoffman
• Collaboration in the World Health Organization Ageing and Life Course Programme (WHO ALC), a multi-country study
• Integrated Health Responses to Rapid Population Ageing (INTRA). - Isabella Aboderin
• An in-depth investigation of the “Dimensions and Social Determinants of Older People’s Health in Nigeria and Implications for Policy” - Isabella Aboderin