Be sure to join us after the Thanksgiving break on Wednesday, December 3rd, 12pm, for our end of the year ‘Population Sciences Lunch,’ co-hosted by BPC and CEDA, held in our seminar room, 310 Social Sciences. Come gather with your community of population researchers. You are all invited, and lunch will be provided. Just bring […]

We are delighted to announce a new seminar series, ‘Population Biology and Ecology of Infectious Diseases,’ beginning spring semester 2026. The series is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Population Center and the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases. Our hope is to create a sustained community of scholars working on infectious disease dynamics across disciplinary boundaries.  […]

We share the sad news of the passing of Eugene “Gene” Hammel, at the age 95. Professor Hammel was an enormously influential anthropologist and demographer, making serious theoretical and methodological contributions to our field. His specializations included social structure and kinship; peasant society and culture; social theory; anthropological linguistics; historical demography; theory and the philosophy of […]

The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brains Sciences (FABBS) is circulating a community sign-on letter urging Congress to sustain funding for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the FY 2026 appropriations process. The letter emphasizes the importance of retaining the Senate’s report language supporting the […]

Our former CEDA Manager Elie Draper has moved on to a new position at Berkeley. We are sad to see her leave CEDA, but happy for her promotion. She has left big shoes to fill but we have now successfully hired an excellent successor. We are pleased to introduce you to our new CEDA Manager, Ms. Eowyn Mader (cc’d), […]

Join us this week for our Brownbag Seminar on Wednesday, October 22nd, 12pm, with Felix Elwert, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Elwert will present “A New Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and also available via zoom. See the full […]

As the federal government shutdown enters its third week, the PAA Office of Government Affairs, along with the PAA/APC Committee on Government and Public Affairs (GPAC), is monitoring developments and engaging with coalition partners in Washington, DC, including the Consortium of Social Science Associations, to address the problems this latest funding lapse has caused. If you are […]

You are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the 2026 Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs, jointly sponsored by CEDA and USC|UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health. The workshop will be held virtually on March 6, 2026.  A one page abstract should be submitted by December […]

Join us this week for our Brownbag Seminar on Wednesday, October 1st, 12pm. Jeffrey W. Lockhart, who recently joined UC Berkeley’s Sociology Department as an Assistant Professor, will present, “The Role of Demographics in Sociological Research: Authorship, Citation, and Acknowledgment.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and will also be available via […]

Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data again available to new users. After funding for USAID and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) was eliminated in February 2025, new researchers could no longer apply online for access to DHS data, and existing DHS users could not gain access to additional countries’ data. This restriction affected would-be […]