The Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) at Brown University, formally established in 1965, is an internationally respected demography research and training center offering an outstanding interdisciplinary graduate training program. Research interests include social demography, economic demography, anthropological demography, and population health. ____________________________________________________________________________

PSTC Faculty Associates Receive Award for New Survey Methodology David Lindstrom and Dennis Hogan have been awarded an R03 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. Their project, “Analyzing the Effectiveness of a Non-Verbal Response Card: Evidence from Ethiopia,” will examine the effectiveness of a new response method for soliciting responses to sensitive questions. This method, which was recently piloted by the investigators in southwestern Ethiopia, increases the level of privacy and confidentiality in an interviewer-administered survey, and makes minimal cognitive demands on the respondent. For more on the PSTC’s research in Ethiopia, please see the project website. _________________________________________

PSTC Faculty Associate Studies Disease Burden of S. japonicum PSTC faculty associate Stephen McGarvey is senior scientist on a study examining the burden of schistosomiasis japonica. He and his colleagues find that the disease burden of schistosomiasis, a parasitic flatworm infection, is far greater than previously estimated. Results of this study appear in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases here. Read more from the Brown News Service here. _________________________________________

Two PSTC Faculty Associates featured in new issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality Abigail Harrison's article is entitled "Hidden Love: Sexual ideologies and relationship ideals among rural South African adolescents in the context of HIV/AIDS." Marida Hollos is co-author, with Ulla Larsen, of "Motherhood in sub-Saharan Africa: The social consequences of infertility in an urban population in northern Tanzania." _________________________________________

Exhibit in Mencoff Hall Lobby Mencoff Hall features a photo exhibit by Anthropology/PSTC graduate student Rebecca Meyers entitled “Living in-Between the Lines: Contesting (Il)legality on the Mexico-Guatemala Border.”  These are photographs from her recent fieldwork that explore how notions of nationality, class, and ethnicity are constructed and negotiated at the border. See the photos from the exhibit here.

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