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: 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
Dr. DeWitte is a biological anthropologist with research specialties in bioarchaeology, paleoepidemiology, and paleodemography. She engages in the reconstruction of life, health, disease, and demography in the past using assemblages of ... Read more
Title: What’s a Parent to Do? Socioeconomic Variation in Parenting Logics Measured with Computational Text Analysis Bio: Orestes "Pat" Hastings is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at ... Read more
Title: Geography of the U.S. Health Care Safety Net and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mortality Bio: Dr. Emily A. Parker is an Assistant Professor at the Bloustein School. Before this role, ... Read more
Bio: Dr. Zia Mehrabi is a professor in the Environmental Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work focuses on topics such as food security, climate change, biodiversity, ... Read more
