University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Kathleen Mullan Harris announced as Keynote Speaker for TAGC 2023

Kathleen Mullan Harris, James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Carolina Population Center will be presenting the keynote address to The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series 2023 (TAGC). Her address is titled Add Health in the Age of Social Genomics. Check back to the …

Spring 2023

Jan 25: “Data Management” – Jim Walker (UW Economics) Feb 1: No in person meeting. Individual research consultations. Feb 8: “Promoting Research and Media Tips” – Malia Jones (UW C&E Sociology) Feb 15: “The Academic Job Market” – Christine Schwartz (UW Sociology) Feb 22: “Inference for Just-Identified Instrumental Variables – Jack Porter (UW Economics) March 1: “How to Give a Great …

Winter 2023 Research In-Focus

CDHA affiliates are producing cutting-edge research within demography of health and aging. To learn more about research at CDHA, check out current projects here.  Jooyoung Kong awarded NIH KO1 Award for her project “The life course approach to caregiving for aging parents: Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences” This grant will provide Kong with 5 years of support, …

Save the Date: Spring 2023 Events

Demography Seminar, Tuesdays, 12:15-1:30pm in Sewell Social Sciences Building CDE & CDHA’s weekly Demography Seminar (DemSem) offers presentations of substantive work at the forefront of population sciences by top scholars from across the university campus and beyond. The Demography Seminar is open to all. Demography Training Seminar, Wednesdays, 2:00-3:15pm in Sewell Social Sciences Building Co-hosted …

Graduate Student Profile: Leafia Ye

Leafia Ye Ye will begin as an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto in Fall 2023. What are your research interests and current research projects? Right now, I am working on a few different things. I have a project, which was funded through the Retirement and Disability Graduate Research Fellowship Award, where I look at …

Post Doc Profile: Christina Kamis

Christina Kamis Kamis will begin as an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois in Fall 2023. What are your research interests and current research projects? I have a few different streams within my research, with the mainstream being life course health research, specifically mental health. I’m interested in how early life trauma, adversities and relationships …

Postdoctoral Scholar 2023

The Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin- Madison invites applications for a NIH-funded postdoctoral traineeship. The program develops the research and professional skills of recent PhDs with interests in the social, economic, geographic, and biological determinants of longevity and health. There is an emphasis on the study of genetic …

Fall 2022

September 7: Introductions September 14: PAA Abstract Panel Michal Engelman (UW Sociology), Corina Mommaerts (UW Economics) September 21: The Publication Process, Matt Wiswall (UW Economics) September 28: PAA Abstract Workshop, Max Besbris (UW Sociology) October 5: No Class – Yom Kippur October 12: Bayesian Model Selection and Model Uncertainty, David Kaplan (UW Educational Psychology) October 19: Asking Research …

Weekly External Events December 12th-16th, 2022

P30 Aging & Other Demographic Centers: Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar: Climate Change and Fertility, Kathryn Grace, Geography, University of Minnesota Monday, December 12th, 12:15pm-1:15pm (details)

Weekly External Events December 5-9, 2022

P30 Aging and Other Demographic Centers: Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar: TBA, Ruby Nguyen (University of Minnesota) https://pop.umn.edu/people/ruby-nguyen December 5, 12:15pm – 1:45pm (details) Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics [University of Southern California] Seminar: “The Urgent Need for a New Generation of Antibiotics Webinar” December 8, 12:00pm – 12:45pm (PT) (details) …