The Population Council, established in 1952, is an international, nonprofit organization that conducts research on three fronts: biomedical, social science, and public health. Its work ranges over the broad field of population: from research to improve services and products that respond to people’s reproductive health needs to designing interventions to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS; from studies of the effects of population factors on a country’s ability to ...
Founded in 1929, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment. Funded by private foundations and government agencies, its role is to analyse complex demographic data and research to provide objective, accurate, and up-to-date population information in a format easily understood by the public at large. The site provides Quick Links to a range of information sources. The Graphics ...
The Population Research Center, is an interdisciplinary research center. From the early 1940s through the early 1970s, Chicago had an outstanding population group in sociology. This center of activity was revived in 1983 with a new P-30 Population Center. The field of social demography research covers a broad range of human activity, divided below into the following areas of study: Sexual Behavior, Parents, Children, and Work, ...
The Population Research Center is an interdisciplinary research unit that provides support for population-related research projects at UT. Faculty researchers come from departments all across campus. The researchers’ projects focus primarily on health disparities, religion and health, children and families, education and transitions to adulthood, and the demography of Latin America and the US border. The PRC administers a comprehensive program to train graduate students with interests in ...
The Population Research Institute (PRI) encourages, organizes, and supports innovative research and training in the population sciences. Drawing on the talents of over sixty outstanding scholars, PRI provides a supportive and collegial intellectual environment to stimulate collaborative, externally funded research. PRI also is the home of Penn State’s Graduate Program in Demography and a postdoctoral training program in family demography and individual development.
The Population Studies Center maintains a rich portfolio of individual research projects funded by NICHD, NIA, other NIH institutes, NSF, and major foundations. The Center’s interdisciplinary group of researchers is at the forefront of studies in the research areas below. The Center is also a leader in the collection of data for population research and in the creation of new data collection and analysis methods. Center ...
The Population Studies Center (PSC) of the University of Pennsylvania was founded in 1962. Its main research themes are: health and well-being of populations, human resources and endowments, international population studies, policy evaluation, population structure and growth, networks in populations, population aging. It provides teaching under the "Graduate Group in Demography (GGD)" program. Its "EOS library catolog can be consulted online.
RAND Labor and Population conducts research to support and improve policies and organizations around the world. The program presently conducts national and international research in five areas of policy concern: Aging and Retirement, Collection of Innovative, High-Quality Data, Research on Children and Families, Research on Labor Markets, Welfare, and Human Capital Investments, Socio-Economic Status and Health. Many of its studies reside in one of the following centers: ...
The Center is housed within RAND Labor and Population. This center was founded in 1989 and is one of 15 Centers on the Demography of Aging established by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Presently, the Center supports the research of approximately two dozen researchers with an interest in the social and economic functioning of the elderly. Their backgrounds include economics, sociology, demography, medical sciences, psychology, ...
The PRC has several distinctive characteristics: a strong multidisciplinary focus, research uses large-scale, longitudinal, micro-level data sets, researchers work on issues in many countries, major emphasis is placed on innovative data collection methods, sample designs and new types of information, it applies demographic research to issues of public policy. The PRC draws on a long history of demographic studies and data collection efforts in RAND Labor and ...
