Institute of Behavioral Science
Each semester, CUPC hosts a series of talks on population research from affiliates, CU faculty, and prominent national and international researchers. The talks are co-hosted by IBS and are held Mondays from 12-1pm in IBS 155A and remotely via Zoom. View Past Speaker Series
Abstract: Medicaid data are used frequently to investigate racial and ethnic disparities in health. However, there is considerable variation in the completeness of race/ethnicity information in Medicaid data across the United ... Read more
Abstract: Exposure to violence and trauma in Latin America significantly contributes to migration to the U.S., bringing attention to the mental health consequences of forced migration at the U.S./Mexico border. ... Read more
Abstract: Economic inequality is an important issue in the world today, and the difficulty in reducing it has led many to presume it is an intrinsic property of human systems. Archaeologists ... Read more
Abstract: Universal public health insurance is being implemented across the globe putting substantial pressure on public finances. Whereas the impact of these programs on health care utilization has been well ... Read more
Bio: Kathleen Cagney, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. Her work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on ... Read more
Abstract: Women and men across the globe are at high risk of underachieving their fertility goals. This means that they are aging out of their reproductive years having had fewer children ... Read more
Jani Little, Rocky Mountain Research Data Center- “The Rocky Mountain RDC and Expanding Opportunities with Restricted Data” Brian Cadena, Economics, University of Colorado Boulder – “US-Mexico Migration Networks: New Data and New ... Read more
Abstract: The immediate, direct effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality are felt worldwide. Yet this is not the only mortality crisis the world has witnessed in recent decades. In ... Read more
Abstract: Mass incarceration is a system of social and racial control in the United States that arrests, convicts, incarcerates, and supervises racial and ethnic minority populations through probation and parole. Mass incarceration ... Read more
Abstract: An extensive literature documents large and persistent declines in earnings following job loss. We comprehensively study the role of the public safety net in mitigating lost income from no fault ... Read more
Title: When All Health Politics Was Local Abstract: This talk argues that one cannot understand the origins of health problems — and the success of solutions to address them — without analyzing the local context that ... Read more
Abstract: Flows of international migration are needed around the world to understand the patterns and corresponding effects on demographic, social and economic change across sending and receiving countries. A major challenge ... Read more
Abstract:While qualitative research presents obvious strengths for critical population studies, quantification is also essential to critical social science’s emancipatory aim. In this talk, I take feminist critiques of demography and ... Read more
Dr. Leigh Senderowicz is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can ... Read more
Alex Ezeh is Dornsife Professor of Global Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. Dr. Ezeh’s work focuses on urban health, population change, and models to strengthen knowledge-based ... Read more
