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 […]

Our first brownbag seminar of 2026 will be held on Wednesday, January 28, 12pm, with Henry E. Brady, Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UC, Berkeley. Professor Brady will present “How Should We Use Time-Series Trends, Statistical Models, and Scenarios to Inform Future Public Policies?”. The full event […]

We invite affiliates of UC Berkeley Population Sciences to submit an abstract for the 2026 Spring Symposium on Population Research, held in person on Friday, April 17, 2026 on campus at the Faculty Club. This event is jointly sponsored by the NIH-supported Berkeley Population Center and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging. […]

As we embark upon the spring semester of 2026, we warmly welcome you back!   We are delighted to announce that our brownbag seminar series faculty organizers, Dennis Feehan and Ayesha Mahmud, have once again planned a stellar line-up this spring, including scholars such as Jessica Ho, Serina Cheng, Dan Zeltzer, and many more. Please join […]

As we wrap up the end of fall semester 2025 and close out the calendar year, it is with pleasure that we share the news of our first cohort of the Bashir Ahmed Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to Juana Montoya Murillo and Chris Soria! The Ahmed awards support students who intend to pursue a research career in population science, […]

The Berkeley Population Center (BPC) is pleased to announce a new call for pilot grants for faculty affiliates. Pilot grant proposals submitted by February 1, 2026 will be given full consideration, but grant submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis pending availability of funds. We give funding priority to projects aligned with the mission […]