EVENTS
March 10 | 2-3:30pm | UC Berkeley Sociology Colloquium | “Mobilizations from Within: Black Political Struggle and Transformation in U.S. Prisons.” with David J. Knight, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. 402 Social Sciences Building. Zoom link here.
March 11 | 12-1pm | Berkeley Food Institute | Isabel Madzorera and Robin Marsh. “Global Food Systems Resilience: Concepts and Practice.” Online only; zoom link here.
March 12 | 12-1pm | UC Berkeley Demography Seminar | Payal Hathi, PhD candidate in Sociology and Demography, UC Berkeley. “Stillbirth: A Missing Piece in Population Science.” 310 Social Sciences Building. Zoom option: Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Password: DEMOG_BB See the full event details here.
March 12, 13
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures with the Honorable Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D.
Lecture I: Science in the White House – Integrating Solutions to the Triple Crises of Climate Change, Loss of Biodiversity, and Inequality/Inequity
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 4:10 P.M.
Chevron Auditorium, International House 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Lecture II: Seas the Day – A New Narrative for the Ocean
Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 4:10 P.M.
Chevron Auditorium, International House 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Reception following the lecture
OPPORTUNITIES
The Berkeley Population Center (BPC) and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) invite you to join us for a webinar with ICPSR at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan on March 14th, 2025 from 10am-11am Pacific Time to learn about data depositing, sharing, and management. In the webinar, ICPSR staff will cover the following topics:
- NIH data requirements
- How ICPSR helps fulfill those requirements
- Tips for data management
- What to include in a Data Management & Sharing Plan
- How to prepare to share data
We welcome questions in advance, which you can email to Elie Draper (edraper@berkeley.edu) anytime leading up to the webinar, or bring them with you to the webinar. Please register to receive Zoom information.
Population and its Early-Career Researcher Prize. Founded in 1946, Population is an international, scientific, and peer-reviewed journal published by the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). It is published quarterly in both English and French and is an open-access journal with no article processing charges (APC).
Population publishes research articles from various fields of population studies, covering all regions of the world and time periods. The journal accepts short papers, data papers as well as book reviews and commentaries. They can be submitted in either English or French.
Each year, Population awards a prize to honor the work of an early-career researcher (within a maximum of 7 years post-PhD). The prize includes €1,000 and an invitation to Paris to present the article at INED’s weekly seminar. Submissions for the next Early-Career Researcher Prize are now open: https://www.journal-population.com/early-career-researcher-prize/
Submission deadlines: 30 April or 30 September 2025 (see details on the journal website).
FUNDING
Call for Proposals: 2025-2026 Matrix Research Teams. We are now accepting proposals from faculty, students, and affiliated researchers for Matrix research teams for the 2025-2026 academic year. Matrix Research Teams are emerging research communities that gather regularly to explore or develop a novel question or growing field in the social sciences. Successful research teams integrate participants from several disciplines, address a compelling research question with real-world significance, and deploy or develop appropriate methodologies in innovative ways. Faculty-led Research Teams can receive funding up to $5000. They run for one to two semesters, meeting at least 8 times around a defined research problem. Student-led Research Teams will receive funding up to $1500; coordinated by one or more graduate students, they will meet regularly, around 5-10 times over the course of the academic year, and explore an emerging field — a new area or question of inquiry — and assess whether it has potential for further investigation. Application deadline: March 14, 2025. Learn more here.
AHRQ Examining the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Healthcare Safety (R18).
This Notice of Funding Opportunity invites grant applications that support healthcare safety by determining (1) whether and how certain breakthrough uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can affect patient safety; and (2) how AI systems can be safely implemented and used. AI has the potential to improve the safety, effectiveness, efficiency, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare. However, as with most technologies, this potential must be balanced by identifying and mitigating potential risks for patient harm and user burden. Due May 25, 2025; September 25, 2025
AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18).
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeks health services research grant applications focused on Agency Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ) research priorities, including improving healthcare quality and patient safety, improving healthcare delivery and practice improvement, and enhancing whole-person healthcare delivery. AHRQ supports research in all healthcare settings, including the hospital, long-term care, ambulatory care, home healthcare, pharmacy, and care transitions between settings. Research may involve many partners and other groups, including patients, families, clinicians, non-clinical healthcare staff, policymakers, payers, healthcare organizations, providers and accreditors, local and State governments, the Federal Government, and others. Due May 25, 2025; September 25, 2025.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Exploring Equitable Futures. The purpose of this call for proposals is to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come. Deadline: October 15, 2025.
DATA
Find Lost Data
Boston University School of Public Health has launched FindLostData.org, a platform developed to help researchers find datasets from federal websites and have been archived across multiple sites.
Data Rescue Project
The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network, with a goal to serve as a clearinghouse for efforts focused on preserving access to public data and data access points for public US governmental data. Learn about the status of datasets that you use through their Data Rescue Tracker, which includes resources for finding data and reducing duplication of data rescue effort.
IPUMS
IPUMS INTERNATIONAL
IPUMS International released six new census samples for Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Mongolia, and Mozambique. The newly-released samples extend the pre-existing data series for those countries. The data collection also added twenty three years of quarterly labor force surveys for the Philippines from 1997 to 2019. New spatially harmonized birthplace and migration variables are also available for samples in this data release.
IPUMS USA
The 2023 5-year ACS and PRCS PUMS data are now available on IPUMS USA. See the revision history for more details.
IPUMS IHGIS
IPUMS IHGIS released data tables and GIS boundary files for the Colombia 2005, Malawi 2018, Norway 2011, and Vietnam 2019 population censuses and the Algeria 2001 and Thailand 2013 agricultural censuses, as well as additional tables for the Niger 2001 population census.
IPUMS CPS
IPUMS CPS has added the most recent supplement data for the Displaced Worker and Job Tenure, Food Security, Computer and Internet Use, Education, Volunteer and Civic Engagement, Un(der)banked, and Child Support supplements.
The January 2025 basic monthly data are also available, which include the annual weight revisions to reflect the Census Bureau’s updated population estimates. Following changes to the methodology for calculating net international migration the most recent annual adjustment is larger than other years (learn more about the January 2025 adjustment and comparability with earlier samples).
IPUMS CPS users may be interested in this Federal Register Notice that briefly describes the 2025 Field Test of an internet self-response method for the CPS as part of broader modernization efforts.
IPUMS GLOBAL HEALTH
IPUMS DHS, IPUMS MICS, and IPUMS PMA have released new “IPUMS Global Health” variables that are interoperable across the three data collections. Learn more from this user note and join us for a webinar.
CONFERENCES
Wittgenstein Centre Conference on “Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century.”
Date: November 19-21, 2025
Location: Vienna, Austria
Submission deadline: May 31, 2025
Read more about the conference and submit your paper here.
Health Systems Innovation Conference
Deadline for submission extended to 15 April 2025 (23:59 Universal Time)
The Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) is pleased to invite calls for abstracts for the 2025 Health Systems Innovation Conference which is being organized in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service. The conference aims to bring together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices in health systems innovation with a focus on improving access, quality, and efficiency. In particular, it will showcase the importance of integrating population science into health systems research to improve health outcomes and address healthcare challenges in low and middle-income countries.
The conference seeks to highlight successful health systems innovations that have demonstrated positive impacts on health outcomes that can be adapted or scaled in different contexts; provide a forum for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share insights, experiences, and evidence-based solutions to common health systems challenges; and enhance the skills and knowledge of participants through training sessions, and networking opportunities.
The conference will be held from 29th to 30th April 2025 at the University of Ghana.
- Submit abstracts here: https://forms.office.com/r/D0VEKvJyuy
- Deadline for submission: Tuesday 15th April 2025 11:59 PM GMT
For more information about the conference, thematic areas, and submission guidelines, please see the call for papers attached.
International Conference: How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 28 -29 August 2025
- Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2025
The conference will take place at the campus of Radboud University, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands on 28 and 29 August 2025. The conference is organized by the COST-Action network GREATLEAP, in collaboration with the Radboud University Nijmegen, the HiDo network, and the IUSSP Panel ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’. The conference serves as a closing event of the NWO-funded research project Lifting the burden of disease. The modernisation of health in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, 1854-1926. It also marks the end of the academic career of professor Angélique Janssens, who directed this research project. The conference will therefore be concluded by a farewell reception.
Background:
The history of infectious disease mortality is far from over, neither in the western world nor the non-western world. Yet, the steep increases in life expectancy since the 19th century in the western world were the result of overcoming (non-)epidemic infectious diseases. These massive reductions of mortality due to diseases such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and whooping cough, began before the introduction of modern curative medicine after the 1940s. This presents an important explanatory challenge for historians and historical demographers: what drove this important change in mortality and life expectancy and how did it come about? What explanatory factors can help us understand the great leaps forward? In addition, in order to elucidate the driving factors in this process we also need to have a good understanding of the epidemiological profile of the transformation process. Which diseases were driving the decline in mortality, and which diseases were impervious to improvement before the 1940s and how can that be explained? The epidemiological transition was a complex and dynamic process which did not happen everywhere at the same time or in the same way. Time, place and socio-economic dynamics could differ within smaller regions or countries, or for that matter, even within a single city or town. How can we use these characteristics to say anything about the driving forces behind the epidemiological transition? And how did the experiences compare between the frontrunners in the epidemiological transition, such as the Scandinavian countries and England, and those who came later?
Mortality and health are always, not only in the nineteenth century, the outcomes of complex and multi-causal processes. In this historic extension of life expectancy beyond age 30-40 many factors have played a role, ranging from increased personal hygiene, public health policies, higher incomes, improved nutrition, reduced exposure to infectious diseases, behavioural change, infant feeding practices, and improved education for the majority of the population. How did these factors interact and enhance each other? In recent years there has been a particular stress on sanitary interventions, such as piped water and sewerage. However, reduced infant mortality levels can often not be linked to the instalment of piped water, moreover, mortality often declined before these sanitary innovations became available. Hence, the debate continues. We would like to encourage paper authors to contribute to the debate in this international conference.
We welcome all sorts of contributions, theoretical, empirical and methodological. In particular, we welcome papers from areas and regions of Europe and the world that not belong to the so-called frontrunners in mortality decline in the north-western part of Europe.
Applications:
Applications should contain an abstract (500-600 words) as well as a title, and the names of all authors involved.
- Deadline: 31st March 2025.
- Please submit your application here.
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