Invitation to submit questions. Help Shape the Conversation with the NIH Director at PAA 2026. PAA will host a fireside chat with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on “NIH and the Future of Population Research: A Conversation with the NIH Director” at PAA 2026 on Friday, May 8, 2026, 1:30 – 2:45 pm in the Ferrara Theater […]

This week’s Brownbag Seminar on Wednesday, April 8th at 12pm PT is with Na’ama Shenhav, Assistant Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Professor Shenhav will present, “Life-Cycle Effects of Women’s Education on their Careers and Children.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and […]

This week’s Brownbag Seminar on Wednesday, April 1st at 12pm PT is with Juana Montoya Murillo, PhD candidate in Demography at UC Berkeley, who will present, “After Legalization: Fertility and the Persistence of Abortion Stigma in Colombia.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and will also be available […]

Registration is now open for our Spring Symposium on Population Research: New Findings, New Directions. Join us for this in person, one-day symposium hosted by the Berkeley Population Center (BPC) and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA). This symposium is an opportunity for the UC Berkeley population sciences community to share […]

Do you have new or forthcoming research that you would like to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences? The Population Reference Bureau (PRB)  and its Center for Public Information on Population Research, and in collaboration with the Association of Population Centers (APC), is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research […]

The USC|UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH) and the UC Berkeley Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) will co-host the 2026 Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). This one-day virtual workshop, held on March 6, 2026, will bring together researchers […]

  Join our very own Jenna Nobles, Professor of Demography, University of California, Berkeley, for the upcoming NIH OBSSR Director’s Webinar: “How Responsible Use of Mobile Device Data Can Advance Our Understanding of Fertility.” Overview: For millions of Americans, the pathway to parenthood includes conception failure and miscarriage. These experiences are difficult to capture in administrative or clinical data—and therefore, difficult […]

Join us for our next Brown Bag Seminar this Wednesday, February 18th at 12pm PT. Serine Chang, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, jointly appointed in EECS and Computational Precision Health and part of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, will present, “Simulating Population Behaviors and Public Opinions with Generative AI.” The event will take place […]

This week’s brownbag seminar is Wednesday, February 11th at 12pm, with Soren Larsen, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Demography Department at UC Berkeley. Dr. Larsen will present “Understanding the Role of Social Disparities in Shaping Respiratory Disease Dynamics.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and will also be available […]

We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for our 12th Annual Berkeley Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place on June 1-5, 2026. This year’s special emphasis topic will be on the demography of population decline and aging, including formal demographic models for studying the impact of changes in fertility and the timing […]