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December 16, 2015. A by Shelley Clark and Sarah Brauner-Otto finds that divorce rates across 20 African countries over the past 20 years have remained stable or declined. See听黑料不打烊 Reporter, the (Kenya), and the . | |
November, 2015. Special edition of Guest editors: Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e, Danielle Gauvreau and Beth Jackson, and featuring presentations from the - co-sponsored by CPD, , , , CIHR-, CIHR- and IHSP. |
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November 5, 2015. CPD members celebrate with fellow population researchers across the country the promised return of the mandatory long-form census, for the May 2016 census. October 22, 2015. Immediately on the heels of the elections, CPD members lead by the Presidents of the Canadian Population Society () and the Association of Demographers of Qu茅bec () calling for the reinstatement of the mandatory long-form census. The letter received wide media coverage - , , . |
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October, 2015. An article by Eran Shor and colleagues on the persistant under-representation of women in printed news received wide media coverage around the globe. See articles by 黑料不打烊, the and the . |
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October 1, 2015. Research by Sam Harper and Erin Strumpf, published in of the American Journal of Epidemiology, indicates that despite an overall decline in motor vehicle mortality in the US, mortality rates have risen for those most disadvantaged. . | |
September 30, 2015. Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e discusses a recent International Labour Organization (ILO) study which shows that more than half of the global population aged 65 and above is excluded from urgently needed long-term care (LTC). . . |
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August, 2015. In an , Sebastien Breau reports on new evidence of emerging regional divides in the geography of earnings inequality in Canada. |
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July 31, 2015. The Minnesota Population Center awarded Fabian Lange and colleagues with the 2014 , for their paper "Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margins", American Economic Review 2014. 104(11): 3701-24. The award is given to a creative and persuasive paper that make excellent use of IPUMS data to study historical and current topics relating to fertility and education. | |
June 17, 2015. CPD students e and (doctoral students, Sociology) were featured in a June 2015 article of the Atlantic for their journal article in Gender and Society 鈥淕ay pay for straight work: mechanisms generating disadvantage.鈥 Their study further garnered positive media coverage from multiple Canadian and U.S. news media outlets. | |
June 16, 2015. (doctoral student, EBOH) was the Tyroler Student Prize Paper Winner at this year鈥檚 annual meeting (June 16-19) for her work on the "obesity paradox" and methods for addressing selection bias in epidemiologic research. (Supervisor: Jay Kaufman) | |
Dr. Rebecca Fuhrer receives . |
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June 3, 2015. (doctoral student, Sociology) won best CPS student paper award at the Annual Meeting of the conference (June 3-4) in Ottawa this week for his paper: Does it get better? A quasi-cohort analysis of sexual minority wage gaps in Canada. (Superviser: Michael Smith) | |
May 26, 2015. Ren茅e Carter (doctoral student, EBOH) won the best student presentation on the topic of primary care from the Primary Health Care theme group at the ) conference in Montreal (May 26-28) for her paper: Effects of Family Medicine Groups on visits to the emergency department among diabetes patients in Quebec between 2000 and 2011: a population-based segmented regression analysis of an interrupted time series. | |
May 30, 2015. James Falconer (doctoral student, Sociology) won the best poster prize at the annual meeting in May for his poster Disparities in Health and Access to Health Care among Official-Language Minorities in Qu茅bec (Supervisor: Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e). He also won a Institute Community Support travel award. | |
May 4, 2015. David Rothwell鈥檚 article with Jennifer Robson in the May 2015 issue of IRRP鈥檚 Policy Options also received considerable media and social media attention. | |
April 17, 2015. The detailed the current research of Shelley Clark and her team in Ghana in its blog post: | |
April 13, 2015. The study of Jay Kaufman and colleagues, 鈥淭he contribution of genomic research to explaining racial disparities in cardiovascular disease: a systematic review鈥 (American Journal of Epidemiology) was featured in the Atlantic article: . | |
March 13, 2015. (doctoral student, Economics) was given an honourable mention for her paper:听 The effects of a change in the point system on immigrants鈥 characteristics and labour market integration at the 8th annual New Researchers Conference in March 2015. (Supervisor: Matthieu Chemin) | |
Spring, 2015.听 听(doctoral student, EBOH) won a Institute Community Support travel award (Supervisor: Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e) | |
Spring 2015. (doctoral student, EBOH) won a Institute Community Support travel award (Supervisor: Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e) | |
May, 2015. Twelve (12) CPD student and affiliate members presented work or were co-authors on work presented at the (April 30 鈥 May 3): Ana卯s Bertrand-Dansereau, Cassandra Cotton, Nicole Denier, James Falconer, Ana Fostik, Annie (Xiaoyu) Gong, Mariona Lozano, Claudia Masferrer, Lauren Maxwell, Jennifer Sigouin, Ana卯s Simard-Gendron and David Pelletier. | |
June, 2015. Four (4) CPD student and affiliate members presented work at the Annual Meeting of the and (June 2-5) : Sean Waite, Nicole Denier, James Falconer, and Christine Proulx. | |
June, 2015. Nine (9) CPD students presented their work at the (June 16-19): Hailey Banack, Erika Braithwaite, Sonia Grandi, Deepa Jahagirdar, Alissa Koski, Jeremy Labrecque, Robin Richardson, Corrine Riddell, and Bruno Riverin. |
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January 2015. Jay Kaufman was awarded the 2014 Wade Hampton Frost Lectureship, . This award recognizes contributions that address public-health issues of major importance through the science of epidemiology | |
September 1, 2014. The Star posted Sonia Laszlo鈥檚 commentary (September, 2014) on the Ebola crisis 鈥.鈥 |
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