PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – The annual meeting of the Population Association of America takes place in Denver April 26-28 with 42 PSTC affiliates on the program, some of them multiple times for a total of 53 PSTC appearances. Read more.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – In March, PSTC faculty members Mark Lurie and Abigail Harrison, along with several other faculty members from Brown’s School of Public Health, traveled to South Africa to convene the 5^th annual SASH forum. Led by Lurie, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, along with a colleague at the University of Cape Town (UCT), the SASH Program (South African Social Science and HIV Program) is an NIH-funded training and research collaboration between Brown University and UCT. Read more.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are focused on recovering from Hurricanes Maria and Irma under the constraints imposed by a decade-long economic crisis. In an effort to address the ongoing impacts on the Puerto Rican population and economy, the PSTC hosted a one-day conference in March, convened by PSTC Faculty Associate and Associate Professor of Population Studies and Environment and Society (Research) Elizabeth Fussell and former Watson Institute Post-doctoral Fellow, Deepak Lamba-Nieves, Churchill G. Carey, Jr. Chair in Economic Development Research at the Center for a New Economy (CNE) in Puerto Rico. Read more.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – PSTC Predoctoral Trainee Adedotun Ogunbajo has been selected for the competitive 2018-2019 U.S. Policy Communication Training program offered by the Population Reference Bureau. As part of the program, Ogunbajo will participate in a week-long workshop in June at the Bureau in Washington, DC. Read more.