The overall research themes of PARC include:
- Health, disease, and mortality at older ages, incorporating period and cohort risks and their biologic mechanisms
- Domestic and international perspectives on well-being at older ages, emphasizing life-cycle decision-making and old-age financial security
- Networks as mechanisms of diffusion, vectors of disease risk, systems of resource distribution, matrices of socialsupport and exchange, and instruments for interventions and health policy
- Social, economic, environmental, and behavioural aspects of HIV and chronic diseases in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Innovative analytic methodologies for collecting and analyzing biomarkers and genetic materials (SNP), data collection stragies to improve data quality and reliability, and use of fMRIs for styding motivations