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
Jan 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 … Read more
Nov 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 … Read more
Oct 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 … Read more
Oct 18, 2004 The East-West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii is seeking participants for its 36th Summer Seminar on Population, to be held May 31-June 30, 2005 at EWC. In 2005, the three Summer Seminar workshop topics are:1. Evaluating the … Read more
Oct 14, 2004 The Nang Rong Projects are releasing for public use much of the Social Survey Data, including most of the 1984, 1994, and 2000 household census data as well as most of the 1994-95 and 2000-01 migrant follow-up … Read more
Oct 7, 2004 The Research Committee on Sociology of Population (RC41) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) is pleased to announce that it will hold its mid-Congress symposium on September 15 and 16, 2005, in Malta. The general theme of … Read more
