Conferences and Workshops

33rd Annual Minority Health Conference: Registration now open

The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Minority Student Caucus invite you to attend the 33rd Annual Minority Health Conference, “Translational Research: The Road from Efficacy to Equity". The conference will be held on February 24, 2012 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. This year's keynote speakers include Ana Diez-Roux, an expert in epidemiology and neighborhood health effects, and Nina Wallerstein, an expert in community-based participatory research.

7th Annual AIDS and Economics Pre-Conference

This call is open to individuals who are conducting research on the issue of HIV/AIDS and economics. Typical topics in past Pre-Conferences have included HIV costing, cost-effectiveness analysis, resource allocation and expenditure tracking, AIDS and the workplace, AIDS and the private sector, economics and behavior change, and socio-economic impact assessments. In addition to individual submissions, groups who would like to propose a panel on one particular topic may do so by proposing presenters and abstracts as a group. The panel should not comprise more than four abstracts.

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants Workshop

SSRI is pleased to announce a workshop for graduate students who are considering submitting a proposal to the NSF's Dissertation Improvement Grant program sometime during the coming year.
The workshop will run from 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. on Weds., Aug 22 in SSRI's Erwin Mill facility, room A103. It will address both the tools and systems used to prepare and submit proposals and substantive aspects of preparing a competitive proposal. All are welcome, and there is no charge for attending. Register here.
 

International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard to Reach Populations

"H2R 2012" will be held Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 in New Orleans, LA. The conference will bring together survey methodologists, sociologists, statisticians, demographers, ethnographers, policy analysts and other professionals from around the world to present new and innovative concepts and techniques for surveying hard to reach populations. DuPRI faculty members M. Giovanna Merli and James Moody will both be presenting papers. The conference aims to address both the statistical and survey design aspects of including hard to reach groups.

Call for Papers: 27th International Population Conference

The Call for Papers for the 27th International Population Conference to be held in Busan, Korea on August 26-31, 2013 went out by mail to all IUSSP members in May. If you did not get your copy in the mail you can consult the Call for Papers on the Conference website. You can also download the full list of sessions with sessions cross-listed in more than one theme, so even if you do have a copy of the call for papers you may want to check the list with cross-listed sessions.

Call for Papers: PAA 2013 Annual Meeting

The Call for Papers for the PAA 2013 Annual meeting has been finalized. A PDF version and other instructions can be found at http://paa2013.princeton.edu in the "Reference Documents" section. To see the sessions organized by topics please click on the Sessions by Topic link on the toolbar. The website is now ready to accept submissions of papers and posters for the annual meeting. If you are new to the process, please read the detailed instructions in the first page of the Call for Papers PDF.

Call for Papers: Alpine Population Conference, Aosta Valley, Italy

Alp-Pop brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, among them demography, economics, and sociology. The conference emphasizes empirical rigor and innovation over a given topic or geographical area, and meets the challenges of interdisciplinary and international audiences. Submissions are particularly welcome on topics concerning: population, families, and the welfare state; population and economic development/institutions; finance and population issues. Alp-Pop scholars confer both formally and informally.