Funded Research
Interdisciplinary Training in Demography
Source: NICHD
Active: 05/01/99 - 04/30/09
Investigator(s):
Gordon F. De Jong
The training program provides interdisciplinary demographic training in unique specialty research areas for four (4) predoctoral students at Penn State's Population Research Institute and Graduate Program in Demography. Disciplines integrated in the proposed training program are Sociology, Anthropology (cultural and biological), and Human Development and Family Studies. The training faculty has 19 senior demography faculty mentors plus 16 additional demography teaching faculty for the 33 currently enrolled demography students in the participating departments. Distinctive specialty areas of established interdisciplinary research and training include family formation processes, children's well-being, biodemography and health, and community context, spatial analysis, and GIS applications in demography.
