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Archived News ItemsCePoD is in the news: Center broadens scope of demography CePoD Moves to New Space in Social Sciences Jenny Trinitapoli receives NIH grant Victor Agadjanian receives NIH Grant Jennifer Glick receives a NSF grant Jennifer Glick has been elected to the Population Association of America Board of Directors Steven Haas has been appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior CePoD at PAA: Boaventura Cau wins poster award! CePoD welcomes new affiliate Chowell-Puente CePoD welcomes new affiliates García-Pérez and Castillo-Chavez Premchand Dommaraju wins post-doctoral fellowship Scott Yabiku receives NIH grant Littisha Bates gets top billing at the main webpage for ASU's Graduate College! Victor Agadjanian is featured in ASU Research Magazine CePoD is 3 - See pictures from CePoD’s third anniversary party!
CePoD welcomes two new faculty members Prof. Cecilia Menjívar receives the ASU Faculty Achievement in Research Award CePoD affilate's research on population and the environment featured in the Arizona Republic CePoD director Victor Agadjanian has been named the inaugural Ellen Elizabeth Guillot International Distinguished Professor in recognition of his exceptional and distinguished contributions to the international mission of the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. CePoD Moves to New Space in Social Sciences In November CePoD moved into its new space on the second floor of the Social Sciences Building. The new space includes renovated faculty and project offices, a conference room, and new computer lab for graduate students. With the new location we hope to foster closer collaborations with our colleagues in SSFD and to continue to promote population research across the university.
Jenny Trinitapoli receives NIH grant “Young Adults’ Strategies for Navigating Reproduction in an AIDS Epidemic” NIH/NICHD R01 HD058366-01. 2008-2013. Prinicipal Investigator: J. Trinitapoli, coIs Agadjanian, Shapiro Despite the severity of the AIDS epidemic and the centrality of pregnancy
and fertility to life in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how
AIDS and its consequences alter Victor Agadjanian receives NIH Grant “Childbearing Dynamics in a Setting of High HIV Prevalence and Massive ART Rollout.” NIH/NICHD R01 HD058365. 2008-2013. PI Agadjanian, CoIs Hayford, Menjivar, Trinitapoli, Yabiku. The massive rollout of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs in many sub-Saharan countries is rapidly and radically changing the epidemiological and social meanings and implications of HIV/AIDS. The proposed study will focus on the intersections of childbearing with the scaling-up of HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) and treatment and resulting changes in individuals’ knowledge and views about HIV infection and its consequences. It will combine different types of data collection and analysis to build upon the research team’s previous work (R21HD048257, Agadjanian PI) in four contiguous rural districts of southern Mozambique, an area of precipitous erosion of traditional agrarian livelihoods, massive labor mobility, profound changes in marriage and family systems, high and growing HIV prevalence, and a vigorous expansion of VCT/ART/PMTCT. The scientific aims of the study are to examine in this changing context: how rural women’s knowledge and perceptions of own HIV status affect their reproductive intentions, contraceptive choices, and fertility outcomes; how the characteristics of rural women’s social environments influence the above relationships; how institutional characteristics and mechanisms of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) clinics affect the ability of HIV+ and HIV- rural women to implement their reproductive intentions and contraceptive preferences. A separate aim of the project is to develop and disseminate practical recommendations on the basis of the analyses. To achieve these aims, the five-year project will use a longitudinal design that will involve two waves of population-based survey and of qualitative data collection. The two waves of survey will re-interview a representative sample of c. 1680 married rural women residing in 54 villages who were first interviewed for an earlier study in 2006. In parallel to the individual survey, in each village, a community survey will be carried out. In addition to the surveys, 72 of the survey respondents from eight of the sampled villages (nine per village), with whom semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted in 2006, will participate in two waves of in-depth interviews. To complement the individual/household and community perspectives with an institutional one, in every year of the project, statistical data on MCH/VCT/PMTCT service provision and utilization will be collected from the districts’ MCH clinics and in-depth interviews focusing on challenges and barriers involved will be carried out with the clinics’ nurses. The results of the project will contribute to a better understanding of changes effected by the evolving HIV/AIDS landscape in reproductive intentions and behaviors and to the optimization of the integration of MTC with VCT/PMTCT services and improvement of rural women’s access to these services. Jennifer Glick receives a NSF grant “Social Dynamics in Response to Shifting Immigration Policy and Practice: Latino Social Networks, Resource Flow, and Household Reorganization” NSFHSD Jennifer Glick (PI), Alexandra Brewis Gerardo Chowell-Puente, Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Amber Wutich Immigration is a major area of concern shaping contemporary policy, practice and debate in the United States. As a large scale agent of change, shifts in policy and perceptions concerning immigrants ripple through social networks, affecting household arrangements and resources that impact not only individuals, but families and whole communities. These impacts are felt by immigrants, naturalized citizens and natives who share the same communities, households and families. With backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, human biology, geography and demography, the project team will study households in south Phoenix, Arizona. The research will focus on if and how the households have reorganized in response to changing immigration policy and practice. The study will examine the social networks that link household members to each other and larger networks, and model the implications of this for the resource flows to household members and ultimately for household resiliency and the well-being of family members. Agent-based models will then be applied to examine the potential impact of future large-scale shifts in immigration perceptions and policies. Research findings, such as determining which factors enhance household stability and how social networks can be leveraged to move limited resources where they are most needed, will be shared with local stakeholders to support their goals of building healthy communities. CePoD at PAA: Boaventura Cau wins poster award CePoD student Boaventura Cau won an award for his poster (JPG file): "Labor Migration, Spousal Communication and HIV/STD Risk Perceptions and Prevention."
Other CePoD members presenting at the Population Association of America 2008 Annual Meetings in New Orleans include faculty affiliates Victor Agadjanian, Mary Benin, Jennifer Glick, Steven Haas, Sarah Hayford, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Eileen Diaz McConnell, and Scott Yabiku, and students Winfred Avogo, Littisha Bates, PremChand Dommaraju, Leah Rolfsen, Arusyak Sevoyan, and Li Zhu. See complete list of PAA presentations by CePoD members (Word file). Premchand Dommaraju wins post-doctoral fellowship Prremchand Dommaraju is the recipient of a competitive one year renewable Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (www.ari.nus.edu.sg). These positions are intended for outstanding active researchers from both the Asian region and the world, to bring to completion an important program of research in the social sciences and humanities. Prem’s proposed work for the fellowship will explore various dimensions of marriage change in India, their causes and consequences (mainly childbearing). Scott Yabiku receives NIH grant Scott Yabiku is the PI on a recent 2 year R03 grant from NICHD, entitled “School Characteristics and Marriage Timing in a Setting of Rapid Social Change.” The proposed research will study education and marital change in Nepal. The abstract is below. One of the most notable marriage trends in rapidly changing societies is the trend toward marriages that are delayed relative to historical norms. Education is frequently invoked as a primary cause behind these trends. In addition, some studies have examined the context of educational opportunity by measuring the presence of schools in a community and how far away these schools are from focal individuals. While these studies offer useful insight into the role of educational institutions in a community, they have tended to overlook important variation in the schools' institutional characteristics. These limitations in prior studies prevent the testing of theoretical issues of how schools are related to individuals' family formation. This is an important omission because different characteristics of schools are likely to be associated with different mechanisms and consequences for individuals' marriage timing. This proposed project has three specific research goals. 1) To examine the relationship between multiple dimensions of school characteristics and marriage timing. Although prior research has documented how the mere presence of schools in a community is associated with a variety of individual behaviors, few studies have tested how distinct features of schools are related to individuals' family formation. 2) To test specific mechanisms linking school characteristics to marriage timing. As individuals participate in the schooling system, other activities in their life courses in addition to marriage are also likely to change. Distinct school characteristics implicate individual mechanisms involving processes including role incompatibility, human capital attainment, non-family work experiences, non-family living, and media consumption. 3) To examine gender differences in the relationships between school characteristics and marriage timing. Prior work has shown that the educational experience can have different consequences for men and women's marriage timing, with some experiences accelerating marriage for one sex but delaying marriage for the other. There is good reason to expect that school characteristics may also be differentially related to the timing of men and women's marriages. The setting for this proposed project is the Chitwan Valley in Nepal. The project is able to take advantage of detailed documentation of a setting in which the spread of mass education has taken place within the lifetimes of current residents. Within a setting of rapid social change, this project examines how schools, as institutions, affect the transition to marriage. This transition is an important point in the life course and it sequences other events, including childbearing, employment, and intergenerational relationships. CePoD student wins PAA Travel Award CePoD welcomes two new faculty members
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