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Fighting TB in India

An economist and sociologist team up to fight TB in India. Their project aims to improve the success of TB patients completing their medication regimen by using community members instead of government or health workers to administer the treatment.

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PAA Preview

Each year, the PSTC sends a number of its trainees and faculty associates to the Population Association of America meetings. In preparation, the PSTC also holds an annual "PAA Preview" where several students on the program present their PAA papers in a more informal setting.  Erica Mullen, Heather Randell and Trina Vithayathil, all Sociology graduate students, presented this year:

Population Sciences Research Day at Brown – Call for Posters

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Brown’s Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) is pleased to sponsor its second annual Population Sciences Research Day on May 9, 2013 in Kasper Multipurpose Room that will feature a poster session from 12:00-1:30P.M. – we hope you will participate by contributing a poster.

PSTC Trainee Receives NSF and Fulbright-Hays

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Sociology Graduate Student and PSTC Trainee Trina Vithayathil receives awards from NSF and Fulbright-Hays to support dissertation fieldwork to study how caste data are produced during a contemporary caste census in India.

Melani Cammett wins Mellon New Directions Fellowship

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Associate Professor of Political Science and PSTC Associate Melani Cammett wins the Mellon New Directions Fellowship.