The PAA 2026 Annual Meeting has announced its Call for Papers. The deadline for submissions is October 5. Sessions will be in-person at the America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri, May 6 – 9, 2026.

Please note a few important items:

• All accepted presenters will be required to register for the conference by February 4, 2026.
• Individuals can only serve as a presenting author twice on the program (but can have additional roles such as chair or discussant).
• Organizers will not review papers from authors with whom they have a conflict of interest (close collaborators or current students/postdocs). As such, please do not submit your abstract to someone with whom you may have a conflict of interest.

View the Call for Papers here.

Attention Students, Trainees & Fellows! The Population Association of America (PAA) is a great opportunity to present your research. CSDE will help you prepare to submit your work for consideration. We will be facilitating our annual Extended Abstract Workshop ahead of the PAA 2026 submission deadline. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on your PAA abstract from CSDE staff scientists and faculty affiliates before you submit! You can sign up to participate here. CSDE Training Core PI, Audrey Dorelien, and CSDE Training Director, Jessica Godwin, will meet with you to discuss abstracts ahead of the submission deadline on Tuesday, September 30 @ 11:00AM–12:00PM on Zoom.

October 06, 2025, 3:00PM – 4:15PM EDT

Race/ethnicity is commonly used as a predictor variable in biomedical research. This practice can perpetuate inequities when race/ethnicity and other social-identity categories are treated as fixed characteristics rather than as proxies for the social, environmental, and structural factors that produce unjust group differences in health outcomes. Join the Center and IAPHS for a webinar on Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. ET to learn about a novel research method which systematically assesses this critical factor, shifting the focus from describing health differences between social groups to understanding the mechanisms that produce those differences.

Register Here

The Department of Global Health sponsors the Learning for Action in Policy in Implementation and Health Systems (LAPIS) and will host Per Nilsen, Professor of Social Medicine and Public Health at Linköping University, Sweden. An economist by training at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, Nilsen was responsible for building a research and educational program on implementation science at Linköping University, including a PhD course which is running annually since 2011. He takes particular interest in applying concepts and theories from beyond implementation science for improved understanding of the challenges involved in achieving behavior and practice change. Visit this link to learn more about the seminar.

IPUMS IHGIS

IPUMS IHGIS released data tables and GIS boundary files for an extended time series of the Population and Housing Census for Ireland covering five censuses: 1966, 1971, 1979, 1981, and 1986. We also released data tables and boundary files for the Chad 2009, Jordan 2015, and Zambia 2000 Population and Housing Censuses.

IPUMS CPS

IPUMS CPS has created three new variables: PLACECENSUS and PLACEFFIPS report Census codes for central/principal cities in selected metropolitan areas, and MULTGEN helps identify the number of distinct generations contained within each household. We have also integrated additional variables for the Tobacco Use supplement, including variables on e-cigarette use, and additional variables from the Veterans supplement.

IPUMS NHGIS

NHGIS geographic crosswalks are now available for six more levels: places, county subdivisions, ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs), metropolitan & micropolitan statistical areas, urban areas, and Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). The new crosswalks provide interpolation weights to allocate data from one year’s census blocks to one of these six unit types as defined in a different year (1990 to 2010, 2000 to 2010, 2020 to 2010, or 2010 to 2020