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.
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PSTC Director Michael White is co-editor, along with Mark Collinson, the late Kubaje Adazu (a PSTC alum), and Sally Findley of The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods, a new volume recently published by Ashgate. Current PSTC trainee Bernard Onyango is co-author of a chapter, as well.
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Associate Director Dan Smith is co-author of The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV, just published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book is the culmination of a five-country ethnographic study of marital HIV risk. Smith's work focuses on HIV risk among married couples in Nigeria.
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PSTC faculty associate Mark Lurie challenges the assumption that the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is driven by concurrent partnerships in a new article in AIDS and Behavior. You can also read more from the Brown News Service.
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The PSTC now has a page on Facebook! You can join the group by clicking here.
