CU Population Center

CUPC is a community of scholars with the overarching mission of accelerating innovative and impactful population science to address societal challenges.

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

Jan. 19th, CUPC is hosting @CIDR_NYC & @BaruchMarxe Prof. Deborah Balk for this year's Jane Menken Distinguished Lecture in Population Studies! Her talk is titled "Confronting the Rising Tide: Population Exposure, Change and Prospects in Low-lying Coastal Areas". We can't wait!

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

🎉Huge congratulations to IBS Director Lori Hunter for being selected to serve on the @theNASEM roundtable "Macroeconomic and Climate-related Risks and Opportunities" to advise White House fiscal & monetary policy!
https://t.co/j3P2dQkWk1

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

On Oct. 13, the incredible Lori Peek served as an invited panelist for the Virtual Book launch Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster, hosted by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Check out the recording below!
https://t.co/tJrCfXZcVF

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

Curious to know the relationship between food consumption behavior and obesity in low-income mothers? Well, check out Adam Lippert's new article published in the Journal of Population Research and Policy Review. Bravo to our @CUDenver affiliate, Adam 👏👏
https://t.co/wv8FPAlFQy

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

📣 You won't want to miss out on incredible talk by Dr. Bailey (@karnebe) on Nov. 10 @ 1pm MT, "The environment belongs to everyone: Equity and Inclusion in natural resource management and conservation", so be sure to register below!! 👇

https://t.co/s1P2pzeTa9

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

Want a sneak preview of the fascinating and exciting research from CUPC's newest faculty member, @SharonDeWitte? Check out this @nytimes article! We're delighted to have Sharon join us next fall!

https://t.co/W16XkOXf83

For an in depth dive into the research, see the 🧵 below.

[Tauras Vilgalys @TaurVil]

Our work on natural selection during the Black Death is now published!!

We present evidence of genetic adaptation at immune loci, functionally characterize adaptive loci, and reveal connections between selection during the BD and modern health. 🧵

https://t.co/QWCHFH8yDK

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

(3/3) His other manuscript on public health improvements of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on high school students living in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Oakland was featured in the journal Health Economics. Super impressive James!
https://t.co/bBwLK0BEQD

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

🧵(1/3) ECON PhD candidate James Flynn (@jim_flynn9) recently published two papers! The first was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization titled "Salary disclosure and individual effort: Evidence from the National Hockey League". https://t.co/wr8C13mofQ

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

(2/3) This paper drew interest from the Wall Street Journal and is captured in their article "Success at Work Is Warped by Your Co-Workers’ Salaries". Read the article here:
https://t.co/Khgn0oMk4p

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

🚨Hot off the press! Stefan Leyk, Population Program & CUPC Interim Director, recently co-authored a paper in Nature Communications Medicine on the geographic accessibility of public health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. We're all proud of you Stefan! https://t.co/UdkOSjT3oM

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

Check it out below! 👇

https://t.co/kDBSpAaEtl

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

🚨Hot off the press! Adam Lippert (@LippertAM), CUPC Affiliate at @CUDenver, just published his CUPC/NIH supported research on our system's failure when addressing geographic inequities with sepsis and Black community mortality. We're so thrilled Adam's doing such important work

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

Katie Massey Combs’s recently published study on the accessibility of birth control among the youth in Colorado's child welfare system is featured in the news. She is one of our faculty affiliates and a research associate at IBS. Congrats @katieeliz1982!
https://t.co/TN3xgFHZSK

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

One of our Faculty Affiliates, Dr. Karen Bailey (@karnebe), Assist. Professor in Environ. Studies, has be awarded Outstanding Postdoc Mentor of the Year @CUBoulder! Congratulations Dr. Bailey! 🤩 We're so grateful to have such an engaged mentor at CUPC uplifting upcoming scholars

[CUBoulderENVS @CUBoulderENVS]

Very proud to announce that @karnebe was recognized as 1 of 2 Outstanding Postdoc Mentor of the Year Awardees! Dr. Bailey was hailed in her nomination as 'embodying “what it means to be an equitable and inclusive scholar." Congratulations 🥳
https://t.co/7DG81yftPh

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

If attending via Zoom, email [email protected] for the password. We're excited for you to attend (whether in person or via zoom) this incredible talk by such a rock star CUPC Affiliate!

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

📣 Reminder!📣 IBS CUPC Speaker Series today at noon featuring Affiliate Dr. Amanda Carrico (@Amanda__Carrico), "Who are the climate migrants? Investigating the moderating role of social networks and livelihoods on climate-induced mobility in Bangladesh".
https://t.co/zL3nXEdSQe

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

Keep an eye out for our next "CUPC Highlights" newsletter for more info on Dr. Finlay and her research interests and academic expertise she'll be bringing as a key member to the Institute of Behavioral Science! 📰 Welcome Dr. Finlay!

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉@jessica_finlay will be joining @CUBoulder as a Research Affiliate of CUPC, and working with IBS’s Health & Society Prgm and Population Prgm! Her new tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of CU's Geography Dept (@cugeography) will begin Aug 2023.

[Jessica Finlay @jessica_finlay]

Thrilled to join the Department of Geography and Institute of Behavioral Science as an Assistant Professor @CUBoulder @CUPopCenter starting Aug 2023! It's a fantastic collaborative environment to extend mixed-methods research on neighborhoods, health, equity, and aging.

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

We’re thrilled to have Dr. Finlay join our team, focusing on such important research as neighborhoods and health, equity, and aging while also actively expanding her field!

[CU Population Center @CUPopCenter]

Take a look at the latest work from lead author Caitlin McShane (Geog PhD student), and coauthors Johannes Uhl (Geog Postdoc Research Assoc) and Stefan Leyk (Geog Professor) in a newly published article featured in Scientific Data, based on ZTRAX data: https://t.co/xpj6vgUmLd