CUPC Events Calendar

Title: Does Increasing Access to Contraception Increase Contraceptive Choice or Reduce Unintended Pregnancies? Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial in the U.S. Abstract: This study uses a randomized controlled trial in the U.S. to examine how subsidizing the full spectrum of contraceptive methods affects contraceptive choice, pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth. The study recruited women seeking ... Read more

Title: Deaths of Despair in Space and Time: When and where were mid-life Americans More Likely to Experience Increase in Mortality since the 1990s. Project team includes: Myron Gutmann (lead PI) , Hoeyun Kwon, Aleksander Berg, Lisa Hollister, Siqiao Xie, and Sara Hoose. Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password. *Light lunch served ... Read more

Title: Why Dobbs was good for abortion but bad for obstetrics Bio: Tracy A. Weitz PhD, MPA (she/her), is a professor of sociology and Director for the Center on Health, Risk, and Society at American University in Washington, DC. Her current research addresses how insurance payors, private non-profit organizations, and philanthropy pay for abortion. Further, ... Read more

Title: For a better and fairer planet Bio: Zia Mehrabi is an assistant professor of environmental studies at CU Boulder. He is also founder of the Better Planet Laboratory, a group of data scientists and creatives who build data products and services to solve problems in development for a better and fairer planet. Zia’s research ... 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, she was a National Institute on Aging (NIA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. in ... 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 Colorado State University. His research spans the intersections of inequality, economic sociology, and family demography. Currently, his work primarily employs quantitative and computational methods to ... 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 human skeletal remains. Her research examines the biological, environmental, economic, and social factors that affect and interact with variation in health and mortality; the ecology, ... 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 institutions. Previously, he served as the founding Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and led APHRC to become one of ... 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 promote person-centered care, health equity and reproductive freedom.

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 public health seriously, to demonstrate how we can include social structure, better model distributions and heterogeneity, and use critical theory to shape research questions, within ... 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 to this understanding is that nearly all of the countries in the world do not gather or produce reliable statistics on flows of international migration. ... 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 surrounds them. We’ll examine battles over pollution caused by industrial giants, coal extractors and fights over the unequal distribution of medical care in major cities via ... Read more