Population Studies and Training Center
Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC)
Understanding local, national, and global population challenges through fieldwork, data science, and research-to-policy approaches.
Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC)
Understanding local, national, and global population challenges through fieldwork, data science, and research-to-policy approaches.
Recent News from PSTC
View All News from PSTC Cultural Anthropologist Jessaca Leinaweaver examines the various ways that children receive, are denied, and provide care.
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Sociologist and Demographer Courtney Boen is on a team developing a multi-level intervention strategy for Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia, in order to reduce health inequities perpetuated by structural racism.
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Recent In the Media
View All In the Media The American Sociological Association announced its Inaugural Policy Outreach Fellows this week, and Emily Rauscher was named one of the 10 sociologists who will meet over the next year with the aim of honing skills in communicating with the media and translating complex scientific information from sociological research into plain language for policymakers and the public.
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MDPI is pleased to announce that Dr. Kevin M. Mwenda has been appointed Associate Editor of Populations.
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Brown Professor Speaks to UK Parliament on Social and Economic Mobility
John Friedman spoke to the UK House of Lords’ Social Mobility Policy Committee recently about his research on social and economic mobility.
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About the Center
What We Do
As a well-regarded population studies research and training center, the PSTC seeks to build and support collaborative teams that span disciplines and geographies and integrate research with training.
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Our People
Our interdisciplinary group of of dedicated scholars, faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and trainees brings together diverse expertise and innovative perspectives to explore demographic complexities and address crucial challenges facing populations worldwide.
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Training & Education
The PSTC is committed to providing resources and training to the next generation of population scientists.
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Research Themes
Experiences in families play key roles in determining socioeconomic opportunities, education outcomes, health, and wellbeing around the globe. PSTC works to improve the welfare of children and families through the study of marriage, cohabitation, and fertility; childcare, adoption, and elder care; the impacts of education access and experience; intergenerational inequality; access to work; and life course health.
As some of the world's leading experts in migration and urbanization, our researchers are working to use new data and methods to understand the roles of migration and urbanization in climate change, development, health and disease, social movements, and other critical issues, addressing these challenges with extraordinary geographic and disciplinary reach.
Our researchers are working to build a deep understanding of the bidirectional causal relationships between population change and environmental change, through developing innovative measures and models of environmental change, and working with novel sources of data to develop solutions for a more sustainable world.
Economic development disrupts demographics, altering familial relationships and societal networks. Conversely, demographic shifts influence development. Population science addressing these intricacies ensures development fosters sustained, equitable welfare enhancement, including health and wellbeing. PSTC scholarship in this area is distinctive in its disciplinary and geographic breadth, and diverse methodologies.
More than 30 years into the AIDS epidemic and AIDS remains the leading cause of death among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. In the U.S., social inequalities are reflected in significant disparities in maternal mortality. The PSTC engages issues of reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and gender with collaborations that emphasize population science and span anthropology, economics, sociology, medicine, and public health.
Programs and Initiatives
The PSTC is proud to house affiliated initiatives that provide rigorous research, training, and outreach opportunities for scholars across campus, as well as events that engage the public.
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Box 1836
68 Waterman St.
Providence, RI 02912