CDE and CDHA affiliates have been busy preparing for the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. This year, 60 affiliates, including faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and scientists, appear on the conference program 132 times as authors, presenters, chairs, or discussants. For more details, see our list of events.
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Robert (Rob) D. Mare on Monday, February 1, 2021. Rob was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at UW–Madison for more than 20 years (1977-1998) and served as CDE Director from 1989 to 1994. In 1998, he moved to the University of California, Los …
The Health Disparities Research Scholars (HDRS) program at UW–Madison, led by Deborah Ehrenthal (Obstetrics and Gynecology; CDE affiliate) and training grant coordinator Lisa Scott, offers postdoctoral fellowships through a grant funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Housed in the division of reproductive and population health, a unit within …
CDE extends a huge congratulations to several affiliates for their recent achievements—from new positions to awards and honors—bestowed by both the university and external organizations in 2020. Lonnie Berger became the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research for the Social Sciences in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education in July 2020. …
Several CDE researchers are undertaking new projects to address the myriad of challenges to population health stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. John Eason is co-investigator on the project “RAPID: Estimating the Reciprocal Relationship between COVID-19 Infections of Prisoners and Staff and Infections in the Surrounding Communities.” With funding from the National Science Foundation, Eason and …
UW–Madison is a now a major hub for research on reproductive health, with scholars from across campus working to address important demographic changes and pressing social issues, including the alarming race gap in maternal morbidity and mortality in the U.S., reductions in Title X funding and the accessibility of reproductive health care, and declining access …
Although the halls of Sewell have been quiet this fall, CDE has remained as busy and collaborative as ever. Ten new faculty members from seven different schools and departments became affiliates of the Center. Please help us welcome: Max Besbris (Department of Sociology) came to UW–Madison as an assistant professor of sociology in fall 2020, …
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Franklin Delano Wilson, a preeminent scholar, leader, and colleague who left an indelible mark on UW–Madison over the course of more than 40 years. Wilson taught at the University of Wisconsin from 1973 until 2007, where he was most recently the William H. Sewell-Bascom Emeritus Professor …
Findings from a UW CORE study on how doctors view access to abortion will appear in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health. In this research-based editorial, Jenny Higgins, Nicholas Schmuhl, Cynthie Wautlet, and Laurel Rice—all UW CORE investigators—chronicle the impacts of increasingly restrictive policies on abortion access, underscoring the key importance …
New research from CDE affiliate Michael Light, Jingying He (former graduate student), and Jason Robey (current CDE graduate student) comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas has been published in PNAS. Read more here.