2024-2025 PRI Working Groups &Leaders
Population Health
The group’s interests are broadly in population health, approached from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Group Lead: Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes fernandez-rhodes@psu.edu
Family and Gender
The Family & Gender Working Group has research interests across all aspects of family demography and gender disparities, including union formation and transitions, family inequalities (gender, race, class, etc.), and family health and wellbeing.
Group Lead: Kristina Brant, kbrant@psu.edu
Migration
The Migration Working Group is broadly focused on the process of migration and its effects on sending communities, receiving communities, and migrants and their families. The group also aims to promote interdisciplinary connections and collaborations.
Group Lead: Nicole Kreisberg, nqk5458@psu.edu
Climate Change and Health
The Climate Change and Health (CCH) Working Group is focused on the intersection of climate change and health, and health-related social and demographic processes (e.g., migration, fertility). This group is a part of a broader set of CCH activities that are funded by an NIH supplement to the P2C.
Group Lead: Brian Thiede, bct11@psu.edu
Education and Inequality
This group is aimed at promoting research on the topic of education and inequality using population-based perspectives.
Group Lead: Karly Ford, ksf16@psu.edu
NIH Grant Workshop Group
This group is for PRI faculty/postdoctoral associates and external affiliates who are actively writing PDB-relevant grants to submit to NIH and other relevant institutions. Both new investigators and those with considerable grant experience are encouraged to participate.
Group Lead: Sarah Damaske, sarahdamaske@psu.edu
SSRI Working Group on Population Aging
The Collaborative on Population Aging Disparities (CoPAD) is an SSRI-funded working group that focuses on new and growing sources of inequality among aging adults, with attention to the ways that population dynamics and life course processes interact to alter the composition of the older adult population and the landscape of population health. Population aging is increasingly diverse, and new cohorts of middle-aged adults are entering their older years with different life course exposures to social stressors and policy environments with strong implications for later life health. For instance, current cohorts of aging adults in the United States contain a rapidly increasing share of immigrants, people with a history of criminal justice system contact, and those who experienced a lifetime of precarious work conditions, among other changes, all of which position them to enter their later years with lower levels of access to private and public services like retirement income and health insurance that are key social determinants of health. Globally, ever larger cohorts exposed during their lives to increased climate pressures, wars, and natural disasters are entering older adulthood, often without the family safety nets that prior generations relied on for companionship, caregiving, and social support. CoPAD brings together researchers working on these topics in several population-based, social science fields, surfaces new methodologies and data sources of interest to scholars of aging and the lifecourse, and provides a structure that helps foster new research ideas and project directions related to population aging and disparities.
If you are interested in being added to the CoPAD listserv about upcoming opportunities,
please email Ashton Verdery at amv5430@psu.edu