Apr 6, 2005 “Early Disparities in School Readiness: How do Families Contribute to Successful and Unsuccessful Transitions into School?” will be the focus of Penn State University’s 13th annual Symposium on Family Issues, to be held October 13-14, 2005. The … Read more
Apr 6, 2005 The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is sponsoring a Summer Institute to address essential conceptual, methodological and practical issues involved in planning and carrying out research on psychosocial interventions. The Institute will take place … Read more
Mar 7, 2005 The Data Sharing for Demographic Research project began at the end of last summeras a partnership of NICHD with ICPSR and the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, the Carolina Population Center, and the Minnesota … Read more
Mar 2, 2005 Addressing Health, Educational, and Socioeconomic Disparities of Children in Immigrant Families will be held on May 25 and 26, 2005, Wednesday and Thursday (half day) at 6001 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The funders for this workshop are … Read more
Feb 25, 2005 The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is described as the most comprehensive source of important health information on Californians. Conducted every two years, CHIS provides information for the entire state and most counties on a variety of … Read more
Feb 21, 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS Population Research and Policy Review Special Issue on Spatial Demography Paul R. Voss University of Wisconsin-Madison Guest Editor July 29, 2005 – Deadline for paper proposals (Send to spatialprpr@olemiss.edu.) Aims … Read more
Feb 7, 2005 A new website dedicated exclusively to the M&E of population, health, nutrition and poverty programs is now on-line. The Latin American Network of Evaluation Programs (REDEVAL) website has also been created. Please visit http://redeval.insp.mx. This effort is … Read more
Feb 2, 2005 This announcement invites applications to (a) elucidate basic social and cultural constructs and processes used in health research, (b) clarify social and cultural factors in the etiology and consequences of health and illness, (c) link basic research … Read more
Jan 24, 2005 Two GIS and Population Science workshops (supported by an NICHD R25 training grant) will be offered during Summer 2005. The GISPopSci workshops are scheduled for May 29 – June 11, 2005 (Penn State) and June 19-July 2, … Read more
Jan 18, 2005 As recently announced, the Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE) was created to centralize and enhance oversight of research at UNC-Chapel Hill involving human subjects. The next phase of integration will be to standardize practices across all … Read more
