David R Weir
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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BIO
Dr. Weir is a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and Director of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). He has led the transformation of the HRS into a world-leading biosocial survey combining its traditional excellence as a longitudinal survey with direct biological measures of health, genetics, linked medical and long-term care records from the Medicare system, and enriched psychological measurement. His research increasingly includes comparative analyses from the international family of HRS studies that now cover more than half the world’s population.
- Miriam T. Ashford, Rachana Tank, Mohammed U. Kabeto, Rachel L. Nosheny, Michael W. Weiner, David R Weir, Kenneth M Langa. 2026. Exclusions affect representativeness of Alzheimer's disease trial participants. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions 12(1):e70191.
- Marr, Calum, O'Hara, Leeanne, Ward, Nicola A, Simoes, Stanley, McAlinden, Michael, Sterling, Charlotte, Potter, Claire, David R Weir, McGuinness, Bernadette. 2026. Cohort Profile Update: The Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol sub-study of the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA-HCAP). International Journal of Epidemiology 55(2)
- Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas, ..., Wei Zhao, Jessica Danielle Faul, Jennifer Ann Smith, David R Weir, et al.. 2025. Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals. Nature
- Kim, Jung Ki, Anwar, Masroor, Gupta, Abhishek, Thyagarajan, Bharat, Hu, Peifeng, Jessica Danielle Faul, David R Weir, Kenneth M Langa, Lee, Jinkook, Dey, Sharmistha, Crimmins, Eileen M. 2025. Association of Blood-based Neurodegenerative Biomarkers with cognitive functioning and dementia in India (LASI-DAD) and the United States (HRS). American Journal of Epidemiology
- Gross, Alden L, Mani, Sneha S, David R Weir, Emily Briceno, Rentería, Miguel Arce, Nichols, Emma, Jones, Richard N, Manly, Jennifer M, Kenneth M Langa, Ikanga, Jean, Lee, Jinkook, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2025. Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP): What Makes an HCAP an HCAP? An Adaptive Architecture for Measuring Cognitive Aging Around the World. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
- Lindsay Kobayashi, Brendan Q. O'Shea, Caroline Wixom, Richard N. Jones, Kenneth M Langa, David R Weir, Jinkook Lee, Rebeca Wong, Alden L. Gross. 2024. Lifetime occupational skill and later-life cognitive function among older adults in the United States, Mexico, India, and South Africa. Alzheimer's & Dementia 20(3):1933-1943.
- Zhang, Yuan S, O'Shea, Brendan, Yu, Xuexin, Cho, Tsai-Chin, Zhang, Kelvin Pengyuan, Kler, Jasdeep, Kenneth M Langa, David R Weir, Gross, Alden L, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. Educational Attainment and Later-life Cognitive Function in High- and Middle-income Countries: Evidence from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 79(5):gbae005.
- Leeanne O'Hara, Charlotte Neville, Calum Marr, Michael McAlinden, Frank Kee, David R Weir, Bernadette McGuinness. 2024. Investigating the prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA): the Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) cross-sectional substudy. BMJ Open 14(1):e075672.
- Bui, Helena, ..., Kira S Birditt, Jessica Danielle Faul, Wei Zhao, David R Weir, Jennifer Ann Smith, et al.. 2024. Association analysis between an epigenetic alcohol risk score and blood pressure. Clinical Epigenetics 16(1):1-12.
- Cupery, Tim, Bush, Evelyn, Turner, Robert W., Amanda J Sonnega, Rosales, Teri, Vissa, Kalpana, Whitfield, Keith E., James Jackson, David R Weir. 2023. Positive Effects of Religion and Social Ties on the Health of Former NFL Athletes. Journal of Religion and Health 62:1324-1342.