Don’t miss our first Brownbag Seminar of the semester, this Wednesday, February 5th, 2025, 12pm, 310 Social Sciences, with Rebecca Staiger, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Dr. Staiger will present her work, “Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians’ Practice Locations Before and After Dobbs.” Further event details are here.
The Human Mortality Database Project team invites contributions to the 7th HMD Symposium, “Growing Divergences in Longevity in High-income Populations.” The symposium will be held at Institut national d’études démographiques (INED), Aubervilliers/Paris, France, 9-10 October 2025. This year’s symposium will be dedicated to investigating the main drivers and obstacles to longevity progress in the pre- and post-COVID eras. Contributions from demographers, epidemiologists, public health experts and researchers from related fields conducting analyses based on the cause-of-death series newly integrated into the Human Mortality Database (HMD) are particularly encouraged. The Symposium seeks to address major topics and challenges of substantive research as well as methodological and data issues. In addition to contributing to the scientific program, participants will be invited to provide feedback and suggestions on the currently available content of the database and on the methods used, as well as to propose future developments for the HMD Project in general and the Human Cause-of-Death series in particular.
If you are interested in contributing to the 7th HMD Symposium, please send a 300+ word abstract or draft paper to the HMD (hmd@mortality.org) with Cc: to Magali Barbieri (magali@berkeley.edu) and to Dmitri Jdanov (jdanov@demogr.mpg.de) by 30 March 2025. Please make sure to include: the provisional title of your proposal, the full name(s) of each author, their affiliations (full name of organization and department), and their email address(es). Applicants will be notified by 1st May 2025 whether their paper has been accepted. Full description attached.
Reminder: Registration is open for PAA 2025. See all rates and instructions on the registration page. If you are a presenting author, chair, or discussant, you must register by today, February 3rd. The program and schedule will be available approximately in mid-February.
See further announcements and opportunities below.
EVENTS
February 4 | 12:10-1pm | UC Berkeley School of Public Health Research Series | Timothy Brown, Associate Research Professor, Health Economics. “The Causal Effect of Social Media, Texting, and Video Chat on Child Suicidality and Mental Health.” Pre-register here.
February 5 | 12-1pm | UC Berkeley Demography Seminar | Rebecca Staiger, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley. “Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians’ Practice Locations Before and After Dobbs.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building, with zoom option. Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Password: DEMOG_BB See the full event details here.
OPPORTUNITIES
Assessing the Health of the Principal Federal Statistical Agencies. An American Statistical Association-George Mason University project examining the health of the federal statistical system is requesting feedback from federal statistics users. The feedback they seek includes examples of how you use federal statistics and your suggestions to improve both the data and the user experience. Feedback due February 28, 2025.
The Editors-in-Chief of Population Research and Policy Review (PRPR) are currently seeking applications for Associate Editors with expertise in the following areas:
- Fertility
- Maternal/Child Health
- Family Demography
Scholars in the above areas who also have expertise in Low and Middle-Income Countries, Qualitative Methods, SGM populations are especially encouraged to apply. Learn more.
WEBINARS
Generational Issues: On the Past and Future of Demography. Join for an online book presentation and panel discussion on the European Day of Demography. When: Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 13:00-14:00 CET, online, Zoom Programme and registration here.
Challenges and Solutions to Combining Data in IPUMS Global Health. February 19th, 10am CT. IPUMS Global Health provides free integrated variables and documentation for three leading global health surveys: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), and Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA), with nationally representative surveys in over 100 countries. MICS, DHS, and PMA surveys cover many of the same topics and employ similar questions and sampling approaches. Pooling data across these IPUMS collections could extend analyses’ geographic and temporal scope, but differences between the surveys make such pooling labor-intensive and error-prone. In this webinar, we identify the main challenges to combining data across IPUMS Global Health data collections, and we describe ongoing work by IPUMS to increase the three surveys’ interoperability. Register for the IPUMS Global Health webinar.
Berkeley Population Center