The Population Studies Workshop, sponsored by the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies, is a new interdisciplinary initiative aimed at fostering scholarly exchange on key issues in demography, population health, social statistics, survey methodology, and population economics, broadly defined. The workshop will feature prominent external speakers from leading institutions who conduct cutting-edge research across disciplines such as sociology, economics, public health, political science, statistics, and related fields. The series will engage a wide array of Yale scholars, including faculty, students, and researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the School of Public Health, the School of Medicine, the Law School, the School of Nursing, the School of the Environment, and the School of Management. Link to a list of our advisory board members.
The workshop will meet on selected Mondays and Fridays from 12:00-1:15 p.m. in Room A002 at ISPS, 77 Prospect Street. Lunch will be provided.
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Faculty Organizers:
- Emma Zang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Biostatistics, and Global Affairs
- Xi Chen, Associate Professor of Public Health & Economics
- Rourke O’Brien, Associate Professor of Sociology
- Kai Chen, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Environmental Health
- Charles McClean, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Seminar Coordinator: Nicole Hunter
2025-2026 Speaker Schedule
| date | speaker |
|---|---|
| OCT 20 Monday |
Deborah Carr, Distinguished Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Innovation in Social Science, Boston University |
| NOV 7 Friday |
Daniel Schneider, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of Sociology, Harvard University |
| JAN 30 Friday |
Ted Enamorado, Associate Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis |
| FEB 20 Friday |
Feinian Chen, Professor of Sociology; Director, Hopkins Population Center, Johns Hopkins University |
| MAR 6 Friday |
Kathleen McGarry, Professor & Chair, Department of Economics, UCLA |
| APR 6 Monday |
Geoffrey Wodtke, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago |
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APR 27 |
Evan Roberts, Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Minnesota |
| MAY 4 Monday |
Emilio Zagheni, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
- Ron Borzekowski (DISSC)
- Leah Boustan (Economics)
- Drew Cameron (Health Policy)
- Andrew Cohen (Medicine)
- Cody Cook (Economics)
- Eduardo Fernandez-Duque (Anthropology)
- Natalia Festa (Medicine)
- Ling Han (Medicine)
- Yuan Hsiao (Sociology)
- Melody Huang (Statistics, Political Science)
- Grace Kao (Sociology)
- Shiro Kuriwaki (Political Science)
- Becca Levy (Epidemiology, Psychology)
- Fan Li (Biostatistics)
- Zeyan Liew (Epidemiology)
- Costas Meghir (Economics)
- Ariana Salazar Miranda (Environment)
- Mushfiq Mobarak (SOM)
- Joan Monin (Epidemiology)
- Bhramar Mukherjee (Biostatics)
- Cormac O’Dea (Economics)
- Guangyu Tong (Medicine)
- Rebecca Toseland (Economics)
- Kosuke Uetake (SOM)
- Winnie van Dijk (Economics)
- Jacob Wallace (Health Policy)
- Xuehong Zhang (Nursing)