The Center on Aging and Population Sceinces (CAPS) is funded by the Division of Social and Behavioral Research of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and receives support from The University of Texas Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Natural Sciences. 

The mission of CAPS is to galvanize research illuminating how biosocial, relational, socioeconomic, and institutional forces cascade across the life course to generate disparities in health and aging. CAPS’s scientists investigate disparities generated by gender, racial and ethnic group membership, sexual and gender minority identity, geographic location, disability status, and socioeconomic strata.