Since working with ethnic minority and displaced populations affected by the HIV epidemic in Thailand as an undergraduate and later as a researcher with the United Nations, CDE doctoral candidate Stephanie Koning has been interested in public health in the area around the Thai-Myanmar border. At UW–Madison, Koning, who is pursuing a joint PhD/MA degree …
At the Applied Population Laboratory (APL), a team of researchers, scientists, analysts, and demographers, led by Katherine Curtis (community and environmental sociology; CDE affiliate), work to translate social and economic data into useful information for Wisconsin citizens, policy makers, government agencies, and community-based organizations. By spreading its maps, reports, and analyses beyond the confines of …
Nationally, students of color and children who are poor enter kindergarten substantially behind their peers. In Wisconsin, gaps in graduation rates between black and white students and in math and reading scores of black and white fourth graders are the largest in the country. Recent research has shown that these achievement gaps in the graduation …
Jason Fletcher: Examining the Role of Peers on Childhood Congratulations to Jason Fletcher who received a two-year R21 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the short- and long-term influences of school peers on childhood obesity and fitness in New York City. Fletcher will analyze …