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Workshop on the Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families
March 2, 2005Mar 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 National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Development Demographic and Behavioral Sciences…
California Health Interview Survey
February 25, 2005Feb 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 health topics for California's diverse population. Please see the attachments for more information. AskCHIS_Flyer_11.04.pdf CHIS_FS_8.04.pdf
Population Research & Policy Review Call for Papers
February 21, 2005Feb 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 and Scope of this Special Issue The goal of this special issue is to introduce…
Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Launches Monitoring & Evaluation Website
February 7, 2005Feb 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 an initiative started by the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (INSP) de Mexico and Measure…
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health Program Announcement
February 2, 2005Feb 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 to practice for improving prevention, treatment, health services, and dissemination, and (d) explore ethical issues…
GIS and Population Science Workshops – Summer 2005
January 24, 2005Jan 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, 2005 (UC Santa Barbara). These workshops will be intensive training experiences lasting two weeks and…
New IRB Website and Forms
January 18, 2005Jan 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 Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) on campus. The IRBs have worked together over the last year…
NIA Program Announcement – Retirement Economics
January 13, 2005Jan 13, 2005 The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for research on retirement economics. The research objectives of this Program Announcement include, but are not limited to: (1) the determinants of retirement behavior, (2) the variation in work patterns in later life, (3) the evolution of health and economic circumstances of individuals through…
Steve Wernke TV appearance
November 30, 2004Nov 30, 2004 Steve Wernke's wife Tiffiny Tung is going to appear on an upcoming Discovery Channel series, Mummy Autopsy, as a regular investigator and he may appear a time or two as well as a consultant. Dr. Tung is also a consultant and "Mummy Investigator" for the Discovery Channel series "Mummy Autopsy," which airs…
World Development Indicators on the Network
October 21, 2004Oct 21, 2004 World Development Indicators 2004 is now available on the network and can be found at R:WDI2004. Use of this data from the server requires a setup program to be run on the users' workstations. Please write to cpchelp@unc.edu if you would like to have this installed on your PC.