Population Sciences

Wonderful news to share: Joshua R. Goldstein, Maxine J. Elliott Professor of Demography, and Director of the Berkeley Population Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors a scientist can receive, recognizing “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Josh is […] The post Weekly News, M…

Join us for our last Brownbag Seminar of the semester on Wednesday, April 29th at 12pm PT. Rae Willis-Conger, PhD candidate in Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley, will present, “Detransitioning: The Politics of Categorization and Gender Beyond the Binary.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and available […] The post Weekly News, April 27, 2026 appeared fir…

SAVE THE DATE. On Friday, May 1st, we’ll hold our annual Pre-PAA Mini-Conference, giving graduate students and post-docs the opportunity to practice and present their upcoming talks at the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO (May 6-9, 2026). The conference will be held in person in 310 Social Sciences, as well […] The post Weekly News, April 20, 2026 appeared first…

Invitation to submit questions. Help Shape the Conversation with the NIH Director at PAA 2026. PAA will host a fireside chat with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on “NIH and the Future of Population Research: A Conversation with the NIH Director” at PAA 2026 on Friday, May 8, 2026, 1:30 – 2:45 pm in the Ferrara Theater […] The post Weekly News, April 13, 2026 appeared first on Population Sciences .

This week’s Brownbag Seminar on Wednesday, April 8th at 12pm PT is with Na’ama Shenhav, Assistant Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Professor Shenhav will present, “Life-Cycle Effects of Women’s Education on their Careers and Children.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and will also be available via Zoom. (Meeting ID: 985 2901 01…

This week’s Brownbag Seminar on Wednesday, April 1st at 12pm PT is with Juana Montoya Murillo, PhD candidate in Demography at UC Berkeley, who will present, “After Legalization: Fertility and the Persistence of Abortion Stigma in Colombia.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and will also be available via Zoom. (Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198 Password: DEMOG_BB). See…

Registration is now open for our Spring Symposium on Population Research: New Findings, New Directions. Join us for this in person, one-day symposium hosted by the Berkeley Population Center (BPC) and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA). This symposium is an opportunity for the UC Berkeley population sciences community to share and discuss new findings, innovative ideas, an…

Do you have new or forthcoming research that you would like to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences? The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and its Center for Public Information on Population Research, and in collaboration with the Association of Population Centers (APC), is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findi…

The USC|UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH) and the UC Berkeley Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) will co-host the 2026 Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). This one-day virtual workshop, held on March 6, 2026, will bring together researchers examining the biological, beha…

Join our very own Jenna Nobles, Professor of Demography, University of California, Berkeley, for the upcoming NIH OBSSR Director’s Webinar: “How Responsible Use of Mobile Device Data Can Advance Our Understanding of Fertility.” Overview: For millions of Americans, the pathway to parenthood includes conception failure and miscarriage. These experiences are difficult to capture in administrative or…

Join us for our next Brown Bag Seminar this Wednesday, February 18th at 12pm PT. Serine Chang, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, jointly appointed in EECS and Computational Precision Health and part of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, will present, “Simulating Population Behaviors and Public Opinions with Generative AI.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building …

This week’s brownbag seminar is Wednesday, February 11th at 12pm, with Soren Larsen, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Demography Department at UC Berkeley. Dr. Larsen will present “Understanding the Role of Social Disparities in Shaping Respiratory Disease Dynamics.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and will also be available via Zoom. See the full event details he…

Our first brownbag seminar of 2026 will be held on Wednesday, January 28, 12pm, with Henry E. Brady, Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UC, Berkeley. Professor Brady will present “How Should We Use Time-Series Trends, Statistical Models, and Scenarios to Inform Future Public Policies?”. The full event details can be found here. Visit our brownbag semi…

We invite affiliates of UC Berkeley Population Sciences to submit an abstract for the 2026 Spring Symposium on Population Research, held in person on Friday, April 17, 2026 on campus at the Faculty Club. This event is jointly sponsored by the NIH-supported Berkeley Population Center and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging. […] The post Weekly News, January 20, 2026 appeared first …

As we embark upon the spring semester of 2026, we warmly welcome you back!   We are delighted to announce that our brownbag seminar series faculty organizers, Dennis Feehan and Ayesha Mahmud, have once again planned a stellar line-up this spring, including scholars such as Jessica Ho, Serina Cheng, Dan Zeltzer, and many more. Please join […] The post Weekly News, January 13, 2026 appeared first o…

As we wrap up the end of fall semester 2025 and close out the calendar year, it is with pleasure that we share the news of our first cohort of the Bashir Ahmed Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to Juana Montoya Murillo and Chris Soria! The Ahmed awards support students who intend to pursue a research career in population science, […] The post Weekly News, December 16, 2025 appeared first on Po…

The Berkeley Population Center (BPC) is pleased to announce a new call for pilot grants for faculty affiliates. Pilot grant proposals submitted by February 1, 2026 will be given full consideration, but grant submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis pending availability of funds. We give funding priority to projects aligned with the mission […] The post Weekly News, December 8, 2025 appeare…

Join us this Wednesday, December 3rd, 12pm, for our end of the year ‘Population Sciences Lunch,’ co-hosted by BPC and CEDA, held in our seminar room, 310 Social Sciences. Come gather with your community of population researchers. You are all invited, and lunch will be provided. Just bring yourselves!  Featured affiliate research of the week: Structural racism and perinatal mental health […] The p…

Be sure to join us after the Thanksgiving break on Wednesday, December 3rd, 12pm, for our end of the year ‘Population Sciences Lunch,’ co-hosted by BPC and CEDA, held in our seminar room, 310 Social Sciences. Come gather with your community of population researchers. You are all invited, and lunch will be provided. Just bring […] The post Weekly News, November 24, 2025 appeared first on Populatio…