Population Science News

Weekly News — July 20, 2020

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Demography Brown Bag this week. Enjoy your summer!

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

SAVE THE DATE
Disrupting Upstream Determinants of Family and Community Violence in the COVID-19 Era
Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy. For more information and registration, visit: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/calendar/event/disrupting-upstream-determinants-of-family-and-community-violence-in-the-covid-19-era.

OFF CAMPUS SPONSORED EVENTS

Population Science News

Weekly News — July 6, 2020

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Demography Brown Bag this week. Enjoy your summer!

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

SAVE THE DATE
Disrupting Upstream Determinants of Family and Community Violence in the COVID-19 Era
Wednesday, August 19, 2020. Sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy. For more information and registration, visit: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/calendar/event/disrupting-upstream-determinants-of-family-and-community-violence-in-the-covid-19-era.

Population Science News

Weekly News — June 23, 2020

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Demography Brown Bag this week but stay tuned as more are in the planning stages.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

California’s public sector and economic recovery: lessons from the Great Recession for the COVID-19 response. Jun 25, 2020 01:00 PM. The UC Berkeley Labor Center invites you to join us for a webinar to discuss two upcoming releases about public sector workers: Data Brief: Public Sector Impacts of the Great Recession and COVID-19 and a blog post: California’s Public Sector: Lessons from the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Response. We will discuss the impact of the Great Recession on public sector employment, the importance of the public sector to economic recovery, and the impacts of COVID-19 on public sector workers. As the state and local governments face significant revenue losses and COVID-19 expenditures, we highlight some important lessons for policymakers about the negative impacts of austerity on long-term economic recovery. Register in advance for this webinar:

https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nJadg-cZSdmq2nxTE7ZI-w.

Population Science News

Weekly News — June 9, 2020

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.

Thursday-Friday, June 11-12, 9 AM – 12:30 PM. Special Event: Bayesian Analysis in Demography: A series of 6 talks over 2 mornings.
Thursday Conference     
9:30 AM Jakub Bijak, Southampton University. “Bayesian estimation of uncertain migration flows: Principles and examples”.               
10:15 AM Alex Stringer, University of Toronto. “Estimation of smooth, non-linear rate curves using Bayesian inference”           
11:00 AM Monica Alexander, University of Toronto. “Using social media advertising data to estimate migration trends”
Friday Conference          
9:30 AM Mark Wheldon, United Nationals Population Division. “Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Population Reconstruction”         
10:15 AM Gabriel Borges, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Developing prior distributions from demographic estimates”              
11:00 AM Leontine Alkema, University of Massachusetts. “TBA”
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95206197493?pwd=dEF3UlpJK1plUk5XUUR3bndERmFUUT09 (note; not the same as our usual Brown Bag zoom: full zoom info available by request).

Population Science News

Weekly News — May 26, 2020

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.

Wednesday May 27, 12-1:15 PM.  Demography Brown Bag. The session is titled “Covid-19 Mortality: Challenges to comparisons between and within countries” featuring
“The demography of COVID-19 deaths. A gateway to well-documented international data”. Arianna Caporali & Emmanuelle Cambois (National Institute for Demographic Studies, INED).Arianna Caporali, INED;
“NVSS Provisional COVID-19 Death Counts”. Farida B. Ahmad, CDC.
TBA, Vladmir Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute;
Zoom channel: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98210717931. (full zoom info available by request).

Population Science News

Weekly News — May 18, 2020

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.
No Brown Bag this week.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Tuesday, May 19 | 12-1 p.m. “The Connection Between Industrial Agriculture and Pandemics” Rob Wallace, evolutionary epidemiologist, Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps. Zoom. To learn more and register, visit HERE.

Population Science News

Weekly News — May 11, 2020

EVENTS
As in-person events are on hold, be sure to check out virtual talks and webinars.

Wednesday May 13, 12:10-1:10 PM. On zoom: Demography Brown Bag Short talks. This week we feature Patrick Heuveline (UCLA) speaking about “Beyond Deaths per Person: Three CoViD-19 Mortality Indicators for Temporal and International Comparisons” and Miguel Sanchez-Romero “The life-saving value of testing and herd immunity”” Bring your own cookies.  https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98210717931. Contact me for the full zoom invite.

Population Science News

Weekly News — May 4, 2020

EVENTS
Assume in-person events have been cancelled and check with the organizer. Be sure to check out Webinars, below.

Wednesday May 6, 12:10-1:10 PM. On zoom: Demography Brown Bag Short talks. This week we feature Ted Miguel speaking about “The impact of Covid-19 in the developing world: Kenya” and Luis Rosero-Bixby on “Metrics of a generally mild COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America: bad data or reality” Bring your own cookies.  https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96563625426.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, May 14 | 11am PST. [Webinar talk] Work Supports and Health: Work Scheduling. Sound job creation and employment maintenance efforts will be critical to improving public health and restoring the economy in the coming months and years. Experts, including Kristen Harknett of The Shift Project, will discuss the role of flexible work scheduling in worker health outcomes. See https://cc.readytalk.com/registration/#/?meeting=k0g1eqrztei1&campaign=lke0gpoklj42.

Population Science News

Weekly News — April 27, 2020

EVENTS
Assume in-person events have been cancelled and check with the organizer. Be sure to check out Webinars, below.

Wednesday April 29, 12:10-1:10 PM. On zoomhttps://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97083806866. “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Covid-19 Mortality.”  Speakers: Josh Goldstein and TBD. Demography Brown Bag Short talk. Bring your own cookies.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Tuesday, 11:30-12:30, April 28. SPH Brown Bag. Ray Catalano: “COVID-19 or RECESSION-20: PICK YOUR PLAGUE: An overview of what we know about the health effects of recession and of how that knowledge informs the reopening of America.” https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/655109168.