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.
Submission Details:
- Format: Abstracts of one page or less.
- Deadline: February 16, 2026.
- Submit to: populationcenter@berkeley.edu.
Please find further information in the attached Call for Abstracts. We look forward to your submissions!
Featured affiliate research of the week: US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality (2025). Alison Gemmill; Alexander M. Franks; Selena Anjur-Dietrich; Amy Ozinsky; David Arbour; Elizabeth A. Stuart; Eli Ben-Michael; Avi Feller; Suzanne O. Bell. Journal of the American Medical Association. 333;(15):1315-1323.
See further announcements and opportunities below.
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EVENTS
January 20 | 12:10-1pm | UC Berkeley School of Public Health | Mao-Mei Liu, Researcher, Department of Demography. “Nurturing Diversity in Science Is Resistance.” Hybrid event, 2121 Berkeley Way West, Room 5101. Online for Zoom here. Full event details are here.
January 21 | 12:10-1:30pm | Institute of Personality and Social Research Colloquium |
Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology; Affiliate Professor of Philosophy; Faculty Member, Berkeley AI Research Group (BAIR), University of California, Berkeley. “Large AI Models as a Cultural and Social Technology.” Berkeley Way West (2121 Berkeley Way), Room 1102. More information here.
January 21 | 4pm | Goldman School of Public Policy’s Democracy Book Club Series | Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University. “Revolution & Revenge from the 1950s to Now: A Conversation with Paul Starr.” Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building. Register for this event here.
January 28 | 12-1:05pm | UC Berkeley Demography Seminar Series | Henry Brady,
Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UC, Berkeley. “How Should We Use Time-Series Trends, Statistical Models, and Scenarios to Inform Future Public Policies?”. Room 310, Social Sciences Building and Zoom. See the full event details here. Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Password: DEMOG_BB
WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, WEBINARS
The 14th annual Africa Evidence Summit (AES) will be co-hosted by CEGA and the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA), in partnership with Policy Studies Institute (PSI),on July 23 – 24, 2026 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The AES seeks to elevate the voices of African scholars in research, disseminate new research findings to decision-makers, seed new collaborations, and generate insights to advance evidence-informed policy making. Centered on the theme “Powering Policy with Innovative, Inclusive, Transparent Data,” the Summit will spotlight policy-relevant research across sectors such as climate, agriculture, education, digital transformation, and financial inclusion. Please check the event webpage to apply to be a research presenter, panelist, poster presenter or lead a training (due February 23rd), and express your interest to attend the event (due March 1st).
51st Annual Meeting of the Social Sciences History Association.
Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia – November 19th-22nd, 2026
Decentering Modernity
Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2026
PAA Webinar: Immigration’s Role in Workforce Sustainability. On Friday, January 30, at 12:00pm ET, an expert panel of scientists will provide a demographic overview of the U.S. immigrant population. The panel will discuss how immigrants contribute to the U.S. workforce and the solvency of social insurance programs, including Medicare and Social Security. Participants will also learn how some recent policy changes are impacting specific industries, including the technology and agricultural sectors. Read more and register.
EAPS Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Working Group Workshop 2026. Location: Hannover, Germany, 6–18 September 2026. The Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) invites abstract submissions for its 2026 workshop, to be held 16–18 September 2026 in Hannover, Germany. The workshop theme is “Health and morbidity in Europe: Reflecting on current trends.” The workshop will be held in English, and all presentations will take place on-site (oral or poster). Structured abstracts of up to 300 words are invited. Full details and the abstract submission link are available here. We warmly encourage researchers working on health, morbidity, and mortality in Europe to submit their work. Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 March 2026.
7th Asian Population Association Conference (APAC). Hanoi, Vietnam, 24-27 November 2026. The Asian Population Association (APA) is pleased to announce that the 7th APA Population Conference (APAC 2026) will be held in Hanoi, Viet Nam, from 24 to 27 November 2026, in collaboration with the Viet Nam Population Authority (VNPA), Ministry of Health, and the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA). APA members and interested scholars are cordially invited to submit abstracts and participate in this important regional and international forum. Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 March 2026. For further information and updates regarding the conference and abstract submission, please visit the APA website and the conference website.
FUNDING
Request for Proposals: Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood. The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare. The Foundation employs a two-step grant application process that includes the submission of both a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) and a Full Proposal–the latter only by those applicants requested to do so. This ensures that consideration of Full Proposals is limited to those applications that strictly comply with the Foundation’s programmatic guidelines. The next deadline for submitting a LOI is January 31, 2026. Learn more and apply.
Pilot Core: Call for Proposals. Accepting Applications for 2026-27 for the Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s (CAPRA) Pilot Awards through March 2, 2026. CAPRA’s overarching goal is to serve as a national resource to promote and accelerate multidisciplinary research that informs the actions governments, healthcare systems, and providers can take to reduce the social, economic, and health burden of Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). We welcome Emerging Scholar Pilot Proposals from across disciplines that address the overarching goal of CAPRA and its main thematic areas:
- Health policy and healthcare system impact on acute and long-term care outcomes
- Diffusion of new diagnostics and drugs into practice
- Heterogeneity in disease risk, care access, and outcomes across populations
- Innovative applications of population data
CAPRA will not merely be a funding source for promising studies; the Emerging Scholars will become an integral part of CAPRA. Successful applicants will participate in other CAPRA activities, receiving mentorship and creating a wider network of dementia research collaborators. We will leverage data, methods, and experience across all CAPRA collaborators to enhance the science and potential influence of their research. We will achieve this through facilitating a curriculum-based program open to all CAPRA Emerging Scholar Pilot Awardees that includes mentoring, seminars, and grant writing workshops. Additionally, there will be participation in a meeting facilitated by the Demography and Economics of Aging Coordinating Center (DECC) with Emerging Scholars across other P30 Centers like CAPRA.
Current and past CAPRA Pilot Awardees and project descriptions are available on the Pilot Program page on the CAPRA Website. Application deadline is March 2, 2026. Additional details including eligibility are below and on CAPRA’s website.
CALLS
Global Call for Ideas: Templeton World Charity Foundation. The Templeton World Charity Foundation is looking for ideas to form the basis of future funding priorities aligned with the Foundation’s purpose. Ideas should be bold and innovative, with the potential to deepen or expand our understanding of ultimate reality and what it means to be human. We seek ideas for rigorous research programs that can impact how we each see the world and our place within it.
Recognizing that these discoveries may come from diverse sources we seek ideas that might illuminate and point to discoveries in three of our core areas of interest:
- the fundamental processes, structures and constituents of the natural world
- what it is to be human, as well as the various ways human beings can progress spiritually through their understanding and pursuit of virtues such as love, creativity, gratitude, forgiveness, spirituality, connection, and other positive concepts.
- the nature of transcendent divinity and human responses to it.
Award amount: $5-20 million overall. The submission deadline is February 13, 2026. Learn more here.