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 IUSSP Bulletin ● Issue 60, June 2023 |
In this issue: IUSSP Council meets in Paris ● FAIR Vocabularies in Population Research ● 2023 Mid-term Meeting of ISC Members ● IPC2025 registration fees ● New directions for Family Planning measurement ● Declining mortality and multi-morbidity at death ● Rights and Ethics in Biometric Population Registration ● Meet the Population, Ethics & Human Rights Fellows ● Demographic microsimulations in R using SOCSIM ● Inauguration of the Scholarly Migration Database ● Assessing climate-conflict impact on population ● N-IUSSP e-Book Loneliness and social exclusion among older Europeans before and during the COVID-19 pandemic ● Call for 2024 IUSSP Laureate ● News from the Members ● Regional Population Associations ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training courses and workshops ● Career and study opportunities ● Calendar IUSSP Website Upgrade: July-August An upgraded version of the IUSSP website should go live on 28 June. It may affect the display of the website, including this newsletter. (Consider reading the PDF version). Apologies in advance for any glitches as work continues in July and August to complete the rebuild of the website and ensure everything is working.
The IUSSP Council met for the first time at IUSSP’s new headquarters at INED on the Condorcet Campus. At the top of the agenda was a discussion of membership trends and how to best attract and retain new members. FAIR Vocabularies in Population Research
International Science Council 2023 Mid-term Meeting of ISC Members: Capitalizing on Synergies in Science
International Population Conference  Members who have maintained their annual membership since 2021 or who have selected to pay for four years of membership in 2022 or 2023 will get a substantially reduced conference fee rate. IUSSP Webinar Series
This first webinar organized by the IUSSP Panel on Rethinking Family Planning Measurement with a Reproductive Rights and Justice Lens, held on 31 March, presented the history of family planning measurement, reproductive rights and reproductive justice and reflected on the utility and limitations of current family planning measures. (Watch the recording and access the slides.) New directions for FP measurement
“How should we define and measure demand for and use of family planning? New directions and frameworks for family planning measurement”, held on 21 June, continued the conversation begun during the webinar on “Why do we measure what we do?” (Watch the recording and access the slides.) Declining mortality and multi-morbidity at death
The IUSSP Panel on Declining Mortality and Multi-morbidity at Death held its kick-off webinar on 30 March, with the aim to draw attention to the role played by multi-morbidity in current epidemiological profiles and mortality dynamics. The next webinar, on 28 September, will focus on social inequalities in multi-morbidity at death. (Watch the recording and register for the 2nd webinar.) IUSSP Population, Ethics & Human Rights Project Rights and Ethics in Biometric Population Registration
Meet the Population, Ethics & Human Rights Fellows: • Janaina Costa
With degrees in Law, Economic and Social Development, and Digital Law from UFMG (Brazil), IEDES-Paris 1 (France), and Rio State University (Brazil) respectively, Janaina Costa focuses on innovative public policies for human rights and involves the ethical and rights dimensions of digitizing population registers. (Read more on her current research)
IUSSP Side Events at PAA 2023 Demographic microsimulations in R using SOCSIM
The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography organized a workshop on “Demographic microsimulations in R using SOCSIM: Modelling population and kinship dynamics”, on 12 April in New Orleans, as part of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA). Inauguration of the Scholarly Migration Database
The inauguration meeting for the Scholarly Migration Database (SMD) was held on 12 April in New Orleans at PAA2023, organized by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) with support from the IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography. Assessing climate-conflict impact on population
The IUSSP Panel on Population Dynamics under Global Conflict and Climate Change organized a workshop on 12 April at the 2023 PAA annual meeting in New Orleans entitled "Data and modeling approaches to assessing climate-conflict impact on population dynamics". N-IUSSP e-Book Loneliness and social exclusion among older Europeans before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
This e-book, edited by Bruno Arpino, is the main output of a knowledge sharing process organized by the Joint Programming Initiative “More Years Better Lives – The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change” (JPI-MYBL). It is the second in this N-IUSSP series devoted to disseminating the results of international research projects. Interested researchers may contact N-IUSSP’s chief editor gustavo.desantis@unifi.it. Download the e-Book for free. IUSSP Awards The IUSSP Laureate Award honours exceptional achievements in the population field. Nominate a deserving colleague. The deadline to submit nominations for the 2024 Laureate Award is 1 November 2023. News from the Members
• Ruth Dixon-Mueller (1937-2023)
Ruth Dixon-Mueller, a long-time IUSSP member whose research focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV, and women's empowerment, died on June 15 at a right-to-die center in Switzerland. Her choice to end her life while she was still capable of doing so on her own terms was to her a joyful affirmation of life. Six new members and 32 new Student Associates joined the IUSSP between 1 March and 31 May 2023. Please encourage your colleagues and students to become members. (See list) Regional Population Associations 2024 ALAP Congress in Bogota, Colombia
The 11th Latin American Population Association (ALAP) Congress will be held in Bogota, Colombia in December 2024. Updates will be available on the ALAP website. 2024 APA Conference in Mumbai, India
2024 PAA Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio
2024 European Population Conference in Edinburgh
The 2024 European Population Conference (EPC 2024) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom) 12-15 June 2024. The Call for Papers will be out in September. Save the dates and stay tuned for more information! 2024 African Population Conference in Lilongwe, Malawi
Other Announcements Spatial Demography Topical Collections
The journal Spatial Demography has recently launched “Calls for Papers” for several “Topical Collections". At this time, the website provides descriptions and additional information for three active Topical Collections. Information on three new Topical Collections will be added within the next month, and others are in development. European Journal of Population is now fully open access
MSc programmes in Demography and SRH at LSHTM
Applications are still open for 2023 entry for all three programmes: the MSc Demography & Health, the MSc Reproductive & Sexual Health Research and the MSc Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy & Planning. Various scholarship opportunities are available, for 2024 entry.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with the National Institute on Aging (NIA) has published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (RFA-AG-24-032) titled Enhancing Use of Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Data. Its purpose is to further our understanding of how different behavioral, social, cultural, environmental, and institutional factors affect the trajectory of cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and the experience of living with or managing AD/ADRD in different national or regional contexts. Indian Journal of Population and Development Indian Journal of Population and Development is an open access journal published online twice a year. It seeks to advance the understanding about the interaction between population factors and different dimensions of development in a variety of social, economic, cultural and environmental settings. The most recent issue is available here.
(See list of memorial lectures.) N-IUSSP
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Calendar Forthcoming IUSSP meetings & other events
Submit your announcements Feel free to share news from your institution and region so that we can keep all IUSSP members informed about recent or forthcoming events and opportunities in the population field. IUSSP members are welcome to submit information on conferences, calls for papers, training, career or study opportunities as well their recent publications or peer-reviewed software for inclusion in the newsletter and IUSSP website. Please send the information to contact@iussp.org and remember to include important dates for application deadlines (and photos when appropriate). Information should be sent by email or in a Word document so that it can be edited. For inclusion in the next Bulletin, please send information by 1 September 2023. We look forward to hearing from you soon.IUSSP Bulletin / Bulletin de l’UIESP Publication Director: Mary Ellen Zuppan, IUSSP Executive Director ISSN: 2427–0059 |
