World Geriatrics & Aging Congress
World Geriatrics & Aging Congress
Universiti Malaya
Malaysia
Halimah Awang serves at the Social Wellbeing Research Centre (SWRC), University of Malaya, Malaysia as Principal Research Fellow. Prior to joining SWRC in 2014, she was a faculty member at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya for more than 30 years. Halimah is one of the two principal investigators for Malaysia Ageing and Retirement Survey (MARS), a collaborative study between SWRC and the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. Other research projects she is involved in include ‘Simulation of long-term care for older persons in Malaysia’ with the National Institute of Health, Malaysia, ‘Regional comparative research on population aging in Asia’ with the Asian Development Bank, ‘A new measurement framework for elder abuse and neglect in older adults’, and ‘Malaysia Active Ageing Index: An integrated tool for measuring and monitoring active ageing’, both funded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia.