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In this issue: The end of the DHS programme: a major issue for research and sustainable development ● Preliminary IPC2025 programme ● Preconference side meetings & workshops ● Call for Research Leader Session Proposals ● Nominations for 2025 Council elections ● 2025 IUSSP Laureate France Meslé ● IUSSP–Mattei Dogan Award to KG Santhya ● 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awards ● Improving the measurement of abortion ● Contraceptive Transitions PDR Supplement ● Lecture on the highlights of the PDR supplement on contraceptive transitions ● Measuring Migration in Latin America ● Multiple Cause-of-Death Analysis ● News from the Members ● Regional Population Associations ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training courses and workshops ● Career and study opportunities ● Calendar The end of the DHS programme: a major issue for research and sustainable development  The shutdown of USAID by the Trump administration has resulted in a sudden suspension of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme. These surveys provide a unique, freely accessible and comparable data source covering several continents and decades. Ending the programme and making it difficult for researchers to access these data compromises international research efforts both in the Global South and North. International Population Conference  The IUSSP and the National Organizing Committee are actively preparing for the 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025) in Brisbane, 13-18 July 2025. You can browse the preliminary scientific programme and read useful information to prepare for this event. Take pote of the deadlines, including the 1 April deadline for presenting authors in oral sessions to register for the conference.. Preconference side meetings & workshops  Have a look at the list of preconference workshops before booking your travel. Several IUSSP Panels and other groups are organizing interesting workshops just before the conference. Register for these only once you are certain to attend IPC2025. Note also that you can still organize a side meeting at the conference. Call for Research Leader Session Proposals  Become a knowledge partner and raise awareness of your organization’s research and work in the population field. There are still some Research Leader Session slots on the IPC2025 conference programme. Deadline to submit: 15 April 2025. IUSSP Elections Nominations for 2025 Council elections Elections for IUSSP Officers and Council members for 2026-2029 will take place from 15 September to 27 October 2025. Following the procedure outlined in the IUSSP Constitution, the Committee on Nominations has prepared a first list of candidates. Members can make additional nominations of IUSSP members for the 2025 Council Elections up until 15 July 2025. IUSSP Awards 2025 IUSSP Laureate France Meslé  The Council elected France Meslé as the 2025 IUSSP Laureate in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the field of population and service to the IUSSP. The Laureate Award ceremony will be held in hybrid format, on Tuesday 7 October 2025 at INED (Paris) and online at 14:30 Universal Time (16:30 Paris time). Save the date! IUSSP–Mattei Dogan Award to KG Santhya  KG Santhya is the 2025 recipient of the IUSSP-Mattei Dogan Foundation Award for Comparative Research in Demography. As part of the award, she will give a lecture at the 30th International Population Conference in Brisbane, Australia. 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awards  The 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awards have been awarded to Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Monica Alexander, Nurudeen Alhassan, Igor Cavallini Johansen and Luca Maria Pesando. To honour their achievements, an online ceremony will be held on 12 May 2025, at 13:00 UTC. During the webinar, the awardees will present their current work and share insights into their research interests. Join us in celebrating the 2025 early career awardees! IUSSP Panel activities Improving the measurement of abortion
Contraceptive Transitions PDR Supplement  The IUSSP Panel on “Contraceptive Transition Theories: Models for Contemporary Patterns of Use” produced a supplement to Population and Development Review entitled “Contraceptive Transitions: Explanations and Evidence” (John Casterline & Suzana Cavenaghi, co-editors). This edited collection includes a range of perspectives on contraceptive transitions and population-level contraceptive change, offering critical theoretical perspectives and research directions for understanding contraceptive transitions worldwide. All eight articles and the foreword are Open Access. Lecture on the highlights of the PDR supplement on contraceptive transitions  Each year IUSSP organizes a lecture featuring the work of IUSSP members at the “Monday at INED” lecture series. On Monday 24 March, John Casterline, Jamaica Corker and Nathalie Sawadogo, members of the IUSSP Panel on “Contraceptive Transition Theories: Models for Contemporary Patterns of Use” (2019-2023), will present some highlights from their new review of evidence on contraceptive transitions, based on the recent PDR supplement (see above). A video recording of the lecture will be available shortly afterwards. Measuring Migration in Latin America  The symposium on "Measuring Migration in Latin America: Leveraging Digital Traces, Registers, Censuses, and Surveys" was held in Montevideo, Uruguay, 25-26 February 2025, organized by UDELAR and MPIDR, under the auspices of the IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography. The meeting brought together demographers, data scientists, geographers, and sociologists from a dozen countries across the Americas and Europe to discuss methodologies, Latin American data sources, and analytical approaches to estimating and examining internal and international migration. Multiple Cause-of-Death Analysis The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Declining Mortality and Multi-morbidity at Death has put together a series of Frequently Asked Questions about Multiple Cause-of-Death (MCOD) Analysis, clarifying definitions, presenting aims and methods, addressing issues of data quality and international comparison and highlighting the contribution of MCOD to understanding COVID-19 mortality. Members News
• Richard A. Easterlin (1926-2024)  Professor Richard (Dick) Easterlin passed away on 16 December 2024, at the age of 98. An IUSSP member since 1962, he received the IUSSP Laureate Award in 2010 in recognition of his many path-breaking contributions to population sciences and his direct and indirect influence on generations of population sciences scholars. • Mayanka Ambade (1991-2025)  Mayanka Ambade passed away unexpectedly on 26 January 2025, at the age of 33. She was a member of the IUSSP Early Career Perspectives Panel. As part of the Panel's activities, she recently organized a preconference workshop at the Asian Population Association Conference in Kathmandu to help early career researchers improve their presentations. 129 new Members and 160 new Student Associates joined the IUSSP between 1 December 2024 and 28 February 2025. Please encourage your colleagues and students to become members. (See list) Regional Population Associations 2025 PAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
Other Announcements Population and its Early-Career Prize
European Doctoral School of Demography
The European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) is a fully funded 11-month program for Master's degree students in demography or related fields. Courses are taught in English and focus on developing students' quantitative and programming skills. In 2025-2026, the program will be held in 2 locations: MPIDR (Sept-Oct) and INED (Nov-July). Deadline for applications: 25 March 2025 (at noon, Paris time). Master’s Programme in Global Demography, University of Vienna
The University of Vienna Master Programme on "Global Demography" will welcome its fifth cohort on 1 October 2025. The principal aim of this two-year English language Master’s Programme is to give students a strong scientific grounding in the analysis and forecasting of demographic developments across the globe – in particular, fertility, mortality, and migration trends as well as human capital formation. Deadline for applications: 7 April 2025. Formal demography of fertility: a collaborative literature review Annette Baudisch & Henrik-Alexander Schubert are calling on the joint brainpower of our demographic community to fill a knowledge gap. While there exist concise textbooks of formal demography in general, the literature on the formal demography of fertility remains unsystematic and scattered. They would like to collect all important formal demographic contributions on fertility, synthesize them into a comprehensive overview and publish the result as a literature review. If you would you like to contribute to this project, please read on. 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 as 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 June 2025. 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 |
