Understanding and addressing the misalignment of care demands between an aging

population and a shortage of healthcare workers in the US requires research-ready data to study caregiving. Join IPUMS and NDIRA the morning of Wednesday, November 12 for a GSA workshop: Population Data for Studying Formal and Informal Caregiving.

• Overview of IPUMS data that are relevant to caregiving
• Demonstrations of features to streamline data management
• Discussions about analytical considerations
• Review of non-caregiving topical coverage in these data
• Guidance on identifying informal caregivers, the healthcare workforce, and individuals receiving home healthcare
• Opportunities for hands-on exercises and individual consultations

 

Please register to join us or circulate this opportunity with your networks. The early bird registration rate for GSA expires on September 3.

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Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025
19 – 21 November 2025, Vienna, Austria

The conference will be held in hybrid format.

Migration is a highly debated yet divisive topic in today’s public and policy discourse. In low fertility societies, migration is the main driver of population change and is essential for maintaining a stable labour force. Although it is often presented in simplistic terms, migration is a complex phenomenon shaped by the interplay of multiple drivers and barriers, making it difficult to analyse and predict. Local and global crises, including extreme events driven by climate change, can trigger large-scale mobility both within and across borders.

Demographers have contributed significantly to measuring migration, assessing the contribution of immigrants to population dynamics, and studying population heterogeneity amidst increasingly complex and rapidly shifting migration patterns. Considerable advances have also been made in understanding the differences in migrants’ demographic behaviour, how these evolve as they integrate into host societies, and how life transitions interact with the migration process. Demographic projections and scenarios are essential tools for assessing the long-term implications for future population dynamics, labour markets and socio-cultural diversity, providing important insights for evidence-based policymaking. Much of this research has focused on the destination countries, while implications of emigration in developing regions remain less explored. Likewise, the experiences and challenges of those who lack the means to migrate and remain immobile have received limited attention, despite significant challenges to their livelihoods and well-being.

We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers:

Jakub Bijak (University of Southampton)

Yuliya Kosyakova (University of Bamberg)

Register here.

The University of Washington Research and Engagement on Adaptation for Climate and Health (REACH) Center is accepting applications to the Implementation and Evaluation Fellowship until November 28. The Fellowship provides teams of fellows with $60,000 of funding and training to conduct an implementation science project to evaluate or improve the uptake of a climate and health-related project or program.

Fellows apply and participate as teams of 2-3 public health or healthcare practitioners and researchers. Projects and practice partners must be based in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and/or Oregon. Learn more about the Fellowship, register for office hours, and access the application on the REACH website.

CACHE facilitates research and fosters collaboration among a wide-range of researchers working at the nexus of aging, health and climate change through targeted interdisciplinary training, information sharing, and investments in research support. To view their September 2025 Newsletter that contains upcoming CACHE Seminars, Call for Papers, CACHE Seminar Recordings, and more, follow this link: CACHE September Newsletter.

(SEDAC) – moved to Harvard

Data from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) along with other recent data releases are now available through a special CIESIN subcollection of the CAFE collection on the Harvard Dataverse. CAFE is the Research Coordinating Center for Health and Extreme Weather, based at Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The spatial data produced or curated by SEDAC were specifically intended to facilitate integration with gridded Earth science data, in particular data from NASA’s constellation of remote sensing instruments. SEDAC was managed by CIESIN from 1998-2025.

The Harvard Dataverse is a generalist repository that adheres to the FAIR Principles, is open-source, and enables anyone to both deposit and download data.  According to CIESIN director, Dr. Alex de Sherbinin, “The CIESIN collection is of great value to those who are seeking to understand current climate risks, such as extreme heat and sea level rise, among highly exposed populations. It also includes projections of population and urban areas to better characterize future exposure. This makes it a perfect fit for the CAFE collection.”

The initial subcollection contains 234 SEDAC data sets plus four recent CIESIN releases.  We will be releasing roughly 60 more SEDAC data sets over the coming months.  Meanwhile, NASA Earthdata has restored access to SEDAC data sets (from Earthdata’s SEDAC page scroll down to Data at SEDAC).