Institute for Population Research

We wanted to congratulate all OSU participants at this year's annual PAA meeting in Austin last week. IPR director and PAA President John Casterline gave his presidential address on "Childbearing as Choice". We hope everyone had a great time and congratulations on all your hard work!

Many IPR affiliates will be presenting their work next week at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, in Austin, Texas, from April 10-13th. The IPR Director John Casterline is PAA Present this year, and will give the Presidential Address on Friday afternoon.

The online program can be found here: http://paa2019.populationassociation.org/

Links to sessions from Ohio State and IPR affiliates can be found here:
http://go.osu.edu/IPR2019

We were very thankful to have Dr. Greg Duncan, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Education for our 12th Annual Joan Huber Population Lecture this past Friday. Thank you so much for presenting on the consequences of child poverty, Dr. Duncan! The presentation was interesting, engaging, and impactful.

Thank you to our very own Dr. Jason Thomas for presenting his work “Total Fertility Decline and the HIV Epidemic: The case of Zambia” this afternoon! Just a reminder that there is NO seminar next Tuesday.

Thank you to OSU John Glenn College of Public Affairs Associate Profesor, Dr. Katie Vinopal, for coming to IPR this afternoon and sharing her work “Rookie Mistakes: The Interplay of Teacher Experience and Racial Representation.” We enjoyed the lively, interesting, and valuable presentation and discussion. Great work! Thanks again for coming.

Thank you Dr. Audrey Dorélien, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, for braving the rainy weather here in Columbus to host a graduate student roundtable and to present at IPR’s weekly seminar with her research “Using Remote Sensing to Study in utero Health Shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

Dr. Jessica Gipson, Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at University of California, Los Angeles, hosted an informative and fun graduate student roundtable before giving her presentation, “Using Systematic Anomalous Case Analysis to Examine Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes in the Philippines” for IPR’s weekly seminar. Thank you Dr. Gipson for coming in and sharing your perspective and research today!

Thank you, Dr. Michelle O’Brien, for discussing your work “Wartime Fetal Origins: Stress, Trauma, and the Long-term Consequences of Armed Conflict for Women’s Health” this afternoon at IPR!

Thank you to OSU’s very own Dr. Ryan King for joining us to discuss his work “Cumulative Impact: Why prison sentences have increased” with a full house at IPR’s weekly seminar. Don’t forget to see us Tuesdays 12:30-1:30p for our speaker series!

Dr. Dennis Feehan, Assistant Professor in Demography at University of California, Berkeley, braved the cold (and time zone change) to give an interesting and engaging seminar titled “Using Sampled Social Network Data to Estimate Adult Death Rates” today at IPR. Thanks for sharing your research, Dr. Feehan!

A big thank you to Dr. Eric Seiber for kicking off our Spring 2019 IPR speaker series this past Tuesday with his seminar “Disappearing Medicaid Enrollment Disparities for U.S. Citizen Children in Immigrant Families.” Make sure to check out https://ipr.osu.edu/events for the upcoming speakers this semester and we will see you Tuesday at 12:30!

After 25 years of dedicated service to Ohio State, our very own Susan Pennington retired at the end of 2018. Thank you so much for your work at IPR. You've been a part of IPR since day 1 and your enthusiasm, commitment, and kindness made the center what it is today. You made everyone's days brighter and your presence is going to be missed. We wish you the very best in your retirement!

Susan began her career at Ohio State in August of 1993. Prior to her appointment at IPR, she served as Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Sociology; Student Services Associate in the Fisher College of Business Graduate Program Office; Social and Behavioral Human Subjects Coordinator in the Research Risks Department; and as an Office Associate in the Hematology/Oncology Department at the OSU Medical Center.

Susan received the 2014 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award, in recognition of valuable contributions to the college.

Again, congratulations on your retirement, Susan!

Congratulations to IPR graduate student affiliate Natalia Zotova, from Anthropology, on being awarded the OSU Presidential Fellowship. In her research of “immigration, stress, and mental health among Central Asian Muslim immigrants in a comparative perspective,” Natalia explores how complex economic, legal, and social vulnerabilities affect mental health and well-being of recent Central Asian Muslim immigrants to the US. Natalia conceptualizes immigration as a complex cultural and biological adaptation to a new setting and identifies different factors that influence health outcomes. Employing a biocultural approach and critical medical anthropology, Natalia notes complex relationships between the social structure, culture, and biology as they influence well-being and mental health.

Congratulations to our director John Casterline for being elected this year as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for "distinguished contributions to the field of social demography, particularly for studies of fertility, family planning and the demographic transition in developing nations in Africa." Great job, John!

Five Ohio State faculty named AAAS Fellows Three faculty members in psychology are among five Ohio State University researchers elected this year as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Fellows are selected by their academic peers. It is considered one of the most prestigious honors given to U.S. scienti...

Thank you so much to our very own IPR Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Claire Kamp-Dush, for wrapping up the fall semester Seminar series this afternoon. It was wonderful hearing about both your research and your newly funded project! Hope everyone has a great rest of their semester and we will see you all in January for the start of the next Seminar series.

Current PAA president Wendy Manning and PAA President-Elect John Casterline had a chance to attend the 12th Annual BGSU/OSU Graduate Student Conference this past Friday. It was a great opportunity to see all the great work from emerging Ohio demography scholars. PAA loves Ohio!

Congratulations to IPR faculty affiliate Dr. Corinne Reczek and IPR graduate student affiliate Alexandra Kissling and coauthor Lauren Gebhardt-Kram on their recently published article “Health Care Work in Marriage: How Gay, Le***an, and Heterosexual Spouses Encourage and Coerce Medical Care” in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Great work! http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022146518808718

Health Care Work in Marriage: How Gay, Le***an, and Heterosexual Spouses Encourage and Coerce Medical Care Marriage benefits health in part because spouses promote one another’s well-being, yet how spouses facilitate formal health care (e.g., doctor’s visits, emergen...

Wonderful job to all who presented at the 12th Annual BGSU/OSU Graduate Student Conference! Thank you for hosting BGSU, we had a great time sharing thoughts and ideas. Looking forward to next year already!

This semester, we are catching up with former IPR graduate student affiliate Dr. Sara Mernitz, a 2016 PhD in the HDFS program at Ohio State. We miss you here at IPR, Sara, but are glad to see you are doing well and having fun at UT Austin!

IPR faculty affiliate, Dr. Claire Kamp-Dush, received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to conduct a study on health of same-gender couples. This is the first population representative study to focus on this group and will be done alongside with Bowling Green. IPR director John Casterline added "...these data will be immensely useful for informing better policy and programs for families of all types." Congratulations to Dr. Kamp-Dush and colleagues!

Ohio State to lead national study of same-gender couples The Ohio State University, along with Bowling Green State University, has been selected to conduct a first-of-its-kind national, five-year study of health in same-gender couples. The National Couples’ Health and Time Study is the first population-representative study ever to focus on couples of th...

On November 13th from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM in Derby Hall 2130, the Department of Political Science's Program in Statistics and Methodology (PRISM) will host University of Missouri Professor Michael Kearney. Professor Kearney is well known for his contributions to statistical programming and the literatures on partisanship, social media, and selective exposure. Professor Kearney will give a tutorial on accessing, processing, and using Twitter data in R using his package "rtweet." This package has become the new standard for analyses using Twitter data. There are some slots available for one-on-one meetings should anyone be interested. Any interested party should be directed to Benjamin Campbell at [email protected].

OSU TDA – Kearney The Department of Political Science’s Program in Statistics and Methodology (PRISM) will host University of Missouri Professor Michael Kearney, who will give a tutorial on accessing, processing, and using Twitter data in R using his package “rtweet.” This package has become the new standard fo...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Presents:
Census 2020: Unprecedented Challenges and Their Implications featuring Kenneth Prewitt and moderator Dean Janet Box-Steffensmeier
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 6pm.
Institute of Population Research, Townshend Hall, Room 038
To register: www.amacad.org/CensusStreaming

***OSU graduate students*** Please consider attending this workshop put together by the OSU IPR graduate student organization THIS Thursday in the IPR conference room. Faculty, please share with your students! It is a wonderful opportunity for students to get valuable information about grant writing.

Wonderful seminar today about Understanding the Impact of Housing Assistance Programs on Child Well-Being with Dr. Andrew Fenelon, Assistant Professor of Health Services Administration at the University of Maryland. Not only was the research interesting, but also the presentation was engaging and entertaining. Thank you Dr. Fenelon for presenting at IPR today!

Check it out

UN Careers The Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) /Population Division/Policy Section internship is for two months with a possibility of extension to a maximum of six months, depending on the needs of the Division. The internship is unpaid and full-time. Interns work five days per week (35 hours)...

https://www.thelantern.com/2018/04/poverty-in-columbus-a-look-at-5-neighborhoods-and-how-they-vary/

Poverty in Columbus: a look at 5 neighborhoods and how they vary The student voice of The Ohio State University

So is it nature not nurture after all? In a controversial new book Robert Plomin argues that genes largely shape our personalities and that the science is now too compelling to ignore

Thank you to Dr. Cecilia Mengo and her talk, "Knowledge, Perceptions and Barriers to Accessing Criminal and Health Justice Services among Immigrant and Refugee Women and Girls Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault." The research was both engaging and powerful.

Dr. Ayaz Hyder, Assistant Professor in the College of Public Health at Ohio State, gave an entertaining talk today about the "Perils and possibilities of data linkage: Examples from NLSY restricted data (air pollution), PrimaryOne Health data (food insecurity) and EMS data (opioid)". Thank you for your insight!

Jasmine Whiteside, current IPR affiliate and student at Ohio State, pursuing her doctorate in sociology, has an amazing story to share. Whiteside joined Brain on Fire author Susannah Cahalan at the University of Southern Mississippi for a unique edition of the school’s University Forum Sept. 18, featuring both discussing their battle with a rare disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. “The focus of this forum is one disease, one disaster in one’s life, but even a lot of people can wind up being misunderstood, or hit roadblocks without having a disease like this,” Whiteside said. “This is an opportunity to hear from us, and give USM students a chance to reflect, that if I can overcome this, then they can overcome whatever hurdles they may be facing.” Both women shared their stories and their insight on how to overcome such a life altering disease. The University Forum event was the first time for Cahalan to be paired at a speaking engagement with someone like Whiteside who had the same disease and faced similar challenges. Both women are a true inspiration.
If you want to read more about the forum and the disease, here is the link:
http://news.usm.edu/article/cahalan-whiteside-share-story-recovery-southern-miss-university-forum
Below are the two women (Cahalan on the left, Whiteside on the right) smiling for a photograph after their talk.