Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Contraceptive Access Research and Evaluation (January 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71198 71198-17785629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) presents a panel discussion on contraceptive access research and evaluation, with Martha J. Bailey (UM), Katie Genadek (CU-Boulder, US Census Bureau), Jason Lindo (Texas A&M, NBER, IZA), Vanessa Dalton (UM).

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

BIOS:

Dr. Bailey's research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography and health in the United States, within the longer-run perspective of economic history. Her research has examined the implications of the diffusion of modern contraception for women's childbearing, career decisions, and the convergence in the gender gap. Her most recent projects focus on evaluating the shorter and longer-term effects of Great Society programs, including a recently published book (co-edited with Sheldon Danziger) on the legacies of the War on Poverty. Bailey is an NBER Faculty Research Fellow and in 2007 was an RWJ Health Policy Research Scholar.

Dr. Genadek's research is focused on the relationship between work and family and policy impacts on women's labor supply and household labor. She has ongoing work in areas of couples' time spent together, workplace flexibility, and women's work in a historical context. She is currently analyzing the effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative with a team of scholars in Colorado.

Dr. Lindo's recent and ongoing work is especially focused on documenting the effects of changes in access to reproductive healthcare. This work includes an evaluation of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative and an evaluation of the abortion clinic closures precipitated by Texas HB-2, which were at the center of the US Supreme Court case, Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt.

Dr. Dalton's research interests include family planning and contraception, access to care, healthcare utilization, and human rights. She is Associate Chair of Research in U-M's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the director of the Program on Women's Health Care Effectiveness Research (PWHER), and Co-Director of the Ryan Residency Training Program.



Michigan's Population Studies Center, established in 1961, has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is part of the Institute for Social Research (ISR).

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Presentation Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:12:14 -0500 2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T13:31:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation contraceptive pills
Event Update: Location Change - ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: Harriet A. Washington (March 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73221 73221-18179628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Fall Book Selection: A Terrible Thing to Waste; Environmental Racism and It’s Assault on the American Mind

Wednesday, March 11, 2019 (Earth Week)
1:00pm to 3pm
ISR Thompson 1430ABCD

Virtual Live Stream Presentation with: Join us at ISR or online at https://bluejeans.com/569501572

In support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts at the University of Michigan and the Institute of Social Research and School of Public Health we are excited to partner in bringing an award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington.

Washington will join us via livestream to discuss her book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind."

Ms. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the environmental discussion presenting an argument that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, one that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ achievement gap.

The book explains that environmental racism - a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services is terrible for the brain. Ms. Washington investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected -- and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem.

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at
Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus
Nonfiction Award.

Presentation Co-Sponsors: ISR (ISR Reads, SRC Racism Lab and PSC Population Dynamics and Health Programming & School of Public Health

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:34:03 -0400 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Health Disparities across the Life Cycle (August 5, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75231 75231-19340161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Blalock Lectures are an integral part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. These lectures are all free to join and open to the public. For more information, visit https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/.

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:17:59 -0400 2020-08-05T19:30:00-04:00 2020-08-05T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2020 ICPSR Blalock Lecture schedule