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In this issue: IUSSP honoured with UN Population Award ● Highlights of IPC2025 in Brisbane ● Looking forward to the next IPC in Barcelona ● Activities of IUSSP Panels at IPC2025 ● Elect the next IUSSP Council – Vote now! ● Online General Assembly on 13 November ● 2025 Laureate ceremony for France Meslé ● Call for 2026 IUSSP Laureate Award ● IUSSP–Mattei Dogan Award presentation by KG Santhya ● IUSSP Early Career Awardees at IPC2025 ● New Ways of Transcribing Data on Epidemics ● How Did We Lift the Burden? ● News from the Members ● Other announcements ● N-IUSSP ● Calls for papers ● Training courses and workshops ● Career and study opportunities ● Calendar IUSSP honoured with UN Population Award On 11 July, World Population Day, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) received the 2025 United Nations Population Award in the Institutional Category at UN Headquarters in New York. International Population Conference Highlights of IPC2025 in Brisbane
Looking forward to the next IPC in Barcelona  The IUSSP Council is thrilled to announce that the XXXI International Population Conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain in 2029. This decision was announced by Albert Esteve at the IPC2025 closing ceremony.
IPC activities by Population, Human Rights and Ethics Panel
The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Registers, Human Rights and Ethics organized two sessions at the 30th International Population Conference in Brisbane, Australia 13-18 July 2025: a Research Leader Session on the Future of Population Registers Systems on 14 July and a regular session on Population Registers, Human Rights and Ethics on 15 July. The Panel also held an internal workshop with the fellows. IPC session on Rethinking FP Measurement  On July 14, 2025, the IUSSP Panel on Rethinking Family Planning Measurement with a Reproductive Justice and Rights Lens convened an interactive, 1.5 hour research leader session at the IPC2025. Panel members led participants through a two-part exercise building on the consultative process the Panel initiated in late-2024. IPC activities by Lifetime Migration Panel  The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifetime Migration organized a preconference hands-on workshop on "Mining Migration Trajectories with R" on 13 July, at the University of Queensland, as well as a regular conference session on "Internal Migration as a Life-Course Trajectory". IPC activities by the Panel on Priorities in International Migration Research  The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Priorities in International Migration Research organized a Pre-conference workshop on Tools for Handling, Measuring and Visualising Migration Data in R on 12 July at the University of Queensland, prior to the 30th International Population Conference in Brisbane, Australia. IPC activities by the Panel on COVID-19, Fertility, and the Family  The IUSSP Scientific Panel on COVID-19, Fertility, and the Family organized a Pre-conference workshop on Gender, Reproduction and Family Dynamics in the Post-Pandemic Era on 13 July at the University of Queensland, prior to the 30th International Population Conference in Brisbane, Australia. IUSSP Elections & General Assembly Elect the next IUSSP Council – Vote now! Elections for IUSSP Officers and Council members for 2026-2029 as well as members of the 2029 Committee on Nominations began on 15 September and will end on 27 October. Eligible members received an email on 15 September to access the ballot and vote. Please check your spam folder if you have not received that email. Voting is important! Online General Assembly in November The IUSSP General Assembly will take place online on Thursday 13 November at 13:00 UTC (8:00 am New York / 14:00 Paris / 18:30 New Delhi / 21:00 Shanghai). Register in advance to save te date in your calendar. The second half of the meeting will feature breakout rooms where members can exchange with the IUSSP Scientific Panels and other groups. Some background documents, including a number of Panel reports are already available. IUSSP Awards 2025 Laureate ceremony for France Meslé
The 2025 Laureate Award ceremony in honour of France Meslé 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. Register in advance if you wish to attend via Zoom. Call for 2026 IUSSP Laureate Award The IUSSP Laureate Award honours exceptional achievements in the population field. Nominate a deserving colleague for the 2026 IUSSP Laureate Award. Deadline for nominations: 1 December 2025. IUSSP–Mattei Dogan Award presentation by KG Santhya at IPC2025  KG Santhya, the 2025 recipient of the IUSSP-Mattei Dogan Foundation Award for Comparative Research in Demography, gave a lecture during the closing ceremony of the 30th International Population Conference in Brisbane, Australia. IUSSP Early Career Awardees at IPC2025  The 2023 and 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awardees present at the 30th International Population Conference in Brisbane, Australia took part in a special session entitled Kickstart Your Career in Demography: Insights from Award-Winning Early Career Researchers. The session presented a unique opportunity for early career researchers from all regions of the world to learn directly from emerging leaders in the field of demography how they navigated the challenges of the early career stage, from securing funding and tenure-track positions to building international collaborations and developing successful publication strategies. IUSSP Panel activities New Ways of Transcribing Data on Epidemics  The interdisciplinary workshop on “New Ways of Transcribing, Visualizing, Publishing, and Providing Access to Data on Epidemics and Contagious Diseases” was held online on 18 June 2025, hosted by the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich and organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on 'Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past'.  On 28–29 August 2025, Radboud University, in collaboration with the IUSSP Scientific Panel on 'Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past', organized the international workshop "How Did We Lift the Burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800–Now)". Members News
What does a physician know about and feel about human population? Richard Grossman, MD, MPH invites you to check out his blog - Population Matters-USA. If you like what you see, you can either join the listserv from the blog or contact him directly (richard@population-matters.org). Subscribers will receive only one email each month. As a novice demographer, Richard Grossman welcomes feedback and would appreciate help from experienced demographers to make these essays better! (Note the hyphen, which distinguishes this website from the Population Matters-UK charity website). • Malcolm Potts (1935–2025)
Seven new Members and 8 new Student Associates joined the IUSSP between 1 June and 31 August 2025. Please encourage your colleagues and students to become members. (See list) Regional Population Associations 2026 PAA Annual Meeting in St-Louis, MO
 The next European Population Conference (EPC 2026), organized by the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) in collaboration with the University Bologna, will be held in Bologna, Italy, from 3-6 June 2026. Deadline for submissions: 1 November 2025. Other Announcements Center for Aging, Extreme Events, & Health  The NIA-supported virtual Center for Aging, Extreme Events, & Health (CACHE) facilitates research and fosters collaboration among a wide-range of scholars interested in the nexus of aging, health and climate change. Fill in the Form to join the CACHE mailing list and get information and access to resources and make interdisciplinary connections. Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos  Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos is a free of charge, open access scientific journal published continuously, specialized in the analysis, research, and reflection on demographic, urban, and environmental dynamics in Latin America and the world. The journal is aimed at a specialized audience, and all manuscripts submitted are subject to a double-blind peer review process, ensuring rigor and academic quality in its publications. Since its creation in 1986, the journal has established itself as a reference in its field, offering a space for academic discussion through the following sections. (For more information and to submit manuscripts, read more) 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 latest issue (5(1)) is available here. 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 December 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 |
