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University-wide center housed in PRFH

University-wide center housed in PRFH Offices on both the Medical campus and the Arts and Sciences campus to facilitate interdivisional collaborations. Funded almost continuously by NICHD since its inception in 1971. Recently renewed through 2012.

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University-wide center housed in PRFH

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  1. University-wide center housed in PRFH • Offices on both the Medical campus and the Arts and Sciences campus to facilitate interdivisional collaborations. • Funded almost continuously by NICHD since its inception in 1971. Recently renewed through 2012. • 58 Faculty Associates from 13 departments in 4 divisions of the University

  2. NICHD Population Centers • The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NICHD has funded a highly regarded Population Research Centers program since 1971. • There are now 18 NICHD Population Centers funded by R24 infrastructure grants, of which the HPC is one of the oldest and most established. • This program provides a critical core of professionals to address emerging questions in NICHD priority areas: • Marriage and family change • Fertility and family planning • Teen pregnancy • Mortality • HIV risk and prevention • Children and child health.

  3. Mission • To promote exemplary cross-disciplinary research in population and health, and • to facilitate the submission of successful applications for NIH and foundation research support

  4. Research Themes • Poverty and Welfare Policy • Sexual and Reproductive Health • Transition to Adulthood and Family Demography

  5. Ongoing activities • Working Groups • Pilot Research Grant Program • Hopkins-PRB Symposium on Policy and Health • Economics-Biostatistics Workshop • Mentoring Junior Faculty

  6. Recent Pilot Projects • Biology and Environment in Race/Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Obesity - Jonathan Ellen & Andrew Cherlin • Consequences of Birth Weight - Nan Astone • Migration, the State and Health Transition in Southern Chad - Lori Leonard • Parity and Later-Life Health among Women in Egypt - David Bishai • Mental Health Needs of Older Displaced Persons within the Republic of Georgia - Courtland Robinson • Population-Based Explanations for the Increase in Obesity in Western Countries -Lingxin Hao & Thomas Glass • Successful Black Marriages - Katrina Bell McDonald • Life Table Imbalances in Infant and Adult Mortality - Vladimir Canudas-Romo

  7. HPC Website

  8. Population Center Information Core • Claire Twose (Director) & Lori Rosman—Population librarians from Welch available to assist with population information needs • Jennifer Darragh– New data librarian assists with data acquisition needs. • Librarians are available by appointment and during regularly scheduled hours. • Information Suite (BSPH E4643) offers electronic access to publications, a conference room, and eight hours per week during which a librarian is in the suite for consultations • Web supplements to HPC seminars • Special topic presentations

  9. Population Library Website

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