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Share This The FINANCIAL -- Comparing death rates in the United States with those of the five biggest European countries, Penn and Max Planck demographers found that significant excess mortality cost more lives annually than the epidemic itself. By the year 2017, the United States was already suffering more excess deaths and more life years lost each year than those associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to research from demographers Samuel Preston of the University of Penns...

Event recap | Indigenous data sovereignty: Opportunities and challenges GeoTech Cues by the GeoTech Center Event description On this episode of the weekly GeoTech Hour, the GeoTech Center is returning to the fifth episode of the  Data Salon Series, hosted in partnership with Accenture. This episode focuses on indigenous data sovereignty: what it means to indigenous populations, how it can be improved th...

The second world war left a major mark on the genetic composition of Finland, researchers have found, though the work may not have included minority ethnic groups

This talk discusses recent developments in the use of social media platforms as a source of data, and as a tool for survey research, in order to improve our understanding of migration and population health, and to support policy decisions. It concentrates on two main components: (i) the use of Facebook data to measure migration and mobility in the aftermath of natural disasters; (ii) the use of Facebook as a tool for survey research, with a focus on methods and initial results for the Covid-19 ...

UNM Geospatial & Population Studies symposium helps inspire new book February 26, 2021 A recently published book highlights a symposium co-hosted by a research center at The University of New Mexico. Population Change and Public Policy is the proceedings of the Second Biennial Population and Public Policy Conference, held in February 2019 at Hotel Albuquerque. The conference was presented by the International Association of Applied Demographers and hosted by UNM’s Geospatial and Populatio...

Be A Responsible Fact-Checkers, Open-Minded Scholars, and Persistent Truth-Tellers …Liberia College Dean Admonishes 697 Graduates   Be A Responsible Fact-Checkers, Open-Minded Scholars, and Persistent Truth-Tellers …Liberia College Dean Admonishes 697 Graduates   Welcome Remarks and Message from the Dean of Liberia College (College of Social Sciences and Humanities),Prof. Dr. Josephus Moses Gray, BA, MA, Ph.D., during the 101st Commencement Convocation program held on February 22...

Monitoring and Evaluation Job in Kenya about Health and HIV/Aids, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from m2m; closing on 01 Mar 2021

Monitoring and Evaluation Job in Somalia about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding and Recovery and Reconstruction, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from NIS; closing on 25 Feb 2021

New research uses 133 million tweets to analyze how racially segregated many cities in the United States continue to be.

Researchers found that expanding access to long-acting reversible contraception methods, such as IUDs and implants, could give adolescents more agency in choosing whether and when to become pregnant again.