WHEN: February 1 (12:15 – 1:45 PM CT)   WHERE: Online (Zoom Link) COST: Free The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research. Seminars are held during both the fall and spring semesters. For a full list of our spring seminars, visit https://pop.umn.edu/events/seminar-series. All of MPC’s seminars are virtual and…

Read More

WHEN: January 28, 2021 (12:00 pm-1:00 pm EST) WHERE: Online (REGISTER) COST: Free The Social Demography Seminars, sponsored by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS), provide a forum for social science scholars to discuss in-progress research that touches on timely topics such as health and social inequalities, race and ethnicity, aging and…

Read More

The U.S. Policy Communication Training Program builds on PRB’s 40-year legacy of training researchers to bridge the gap between research findings and the policy development process. While research often has profound practical implications, it must be communicated effectively to a variety of nontechnical audiences to influence policy and programmatic change. The U.S. Policy Communication Training…

Read More

New research supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health aims to deepen public understanding of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and inform the response. This list of recently published journal articles shows the ways current and former NICHD-funded Population Centers are contributing…

Read More

Summary of Seed Grant Funding by Major Topic Area Economic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities Ohio State University (Grant # P2CHD058484) Household Formation and Inequalities in Financial Coping in the COVID-19 Crisis: Building Demographic Insight with New Credit Report Panel Data (PIs: Meta Brown, Economics; Rachel Dwyer, Sociology; Stephanie Moulton, John Glenn School of Public Affairs). University of Colorado…

Read More

Minnesota Demography & Aging Seminar: Creating and Using Measures of Structural Racism George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Philando Castile. Michael Brown. COVID mortality rates of 108.4 per 100,000 for Blacks vs. 54.4 per 100,000 for Whites (APM Research Lab, 2020-10-15). Pregnancy-related mortality rates of 43.5 per 100,000 for Black women vs. 12.7 per 100,000 for non-Hispanic…

Read More