Syracuse University is sponsoring a webinar on the funding landscape at NIH for aging and population health research. Since CSDE is part of the Association of Population Centers, along with Syracuse, UW affiliates are welcome to join. Two sociologists will be offering their insights on their understanding of the current landscape, given their experiences and current roles. Both are highly productive social scientists with longstanding, successfully funded research programs from NICHD, NIA, NIMH, NIAID, NCI, etc.
Sarah Burgard is the University of Michigan’s population center director and
Tara McKay is the co-founder of the LGBTQ+ Policy Lab at Vanderbilt University. The conversation and insights should be illuminating. Sarah Burgard is also President of the Association of Population Centers and actively engaged in interacting with NIH programs, other federal agencies, and with US Congress on health funding for population research.
Please add this to your calendar and feel free to join Syracuse University’s Center for Aging and Population Studies for a moderated discussion on funding research in population health and aging. The speakers, Sarah Burgard and Tara McKay, will address the current funding landscape and prospects for the future.
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Evolutionary Demography Society is a scientific organization dedicated to fostering conceptual integration across disciplines concerned with population processes, including human demography, population ecology, and evolutionary biology. Our aim is to advance understanding of how environmental, ecological, and evolutionary forces shape patterns of fertility, mortality, aging, and migration in humans and across the tree of life.
The conference will take place in Fort Collins, Colorado. Registration and abstract submission are now open. Final registration deadline: May 17th, 2026
The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on “Demographic perspectives on migration”. Submit your manuscript until May 15, 2026.
The editors invite contributions expanding the state-of-the-art knowledge and methodological approaches across a broad range of migration topics, including trends and spatial patterns, innovative data and methods, socio-economic inequalities, drivers of mobility and immobility, climate-related and crisis-driven migration, links between migration and family or health outcomes, emigration and return migration, migrant integration and labour-market impacts, as well as migration forecasting and scenario development.
We invite original unpublished contributions (empirical or theoretical) in form of Research articles, Review articles, Perspectives and shorter Data & Trends contributions. All submissions will be subject to external double-blind peer review. Guest editors: Michaela Potančoková, Roman Hoffmann, Dilek Yildiz, Eleonora Mussino, James Raymer, Claudia Masferrer and Gregor Zens.
CSDE Trainee Natalie Turner (Social Work), CSDE Affiliate Tracy Mroz (Rehabilitation Medicine), and Amber Sabbatini (Emergency Medicine) recently published an article titled, “Characteristics Associated With Home Health Care Referral After Discharge From Hospital.” This study used data on Medicare beneficiaries to examine individual, hospital, and community characteristics associated with institutional post-acute care vs. home health care (HHC), which is often preferred by older adults. Older age, longer length of stay, urban dwelling, and identifying as non-Hispanic White were associated with lower rates of HHC referral. Large (>400 beds), nonteaching, and safety net hospitals were associated with higher rates of HHC referral. Communities with higher percentages of racially and ethnically minoritized residents and older adults had higher rates of HHC referral. However, models explained only 13% of the variation in post-acute care referral.
On February 10 from 10 – 11 am, experts from the University of Washington Native American Law Center, Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program, the Environmental Policy Innovation Center, and the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group will share several potential policy tools that Northwest Coastal Tribes can use to bolster and streamline funding for climate adaptation and resilience efforts. This webinar is hosted by the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group. Register Here.
The CSSS Seminar Series will continue on Wednesday, February 11th at 12:30 p.m. PT with a talk from UCSF Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Paul Wesson titled “Novel methods to construct a representative sample for surveying California’s unhoused population.” Details are here.
Join Earth Lab on February 11 at 11 am for a webinar on, ” Extreme Heat in the Pacific Northwest: Strategies for Next Summer and Beyond.” Extreme heat disasters are becoming increasingly common. What are the strategies for long-term risk-reduction and extreme heat preparedness? This discussion will expand on an article co-written by our featured speakers, which was recently featured by The Conversation in a new collection of essays on how extreme weather events will impact the environment- and our lives. Featured Speakers include Jason Vogel, Deputy Director, UW Climate Impacts Group, and Brian Henning, Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Gonzaga University. Register Here