RAND Workshop on Population, Health and the Environment

RAND is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Population, Health, and the Environment Workshop sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), and RAND's Center for the Study of the Family in Economic Development in January 2001. The workshop examined innovative methods and frameworks for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of these important and emergent areas of research. Senior presenters, discussants, participants and RAND staff used the time to gain knowledge of ongoing interdisciplinary research, to form collaborative networks and to examine the future direction of such research. Workshop participants included graduate students, recent PhDs and practitioners, and developing world researchers.

The workshop focused on presentations of three ongoing research projects based in the traditions of demographic research. Investigators laid out the goals, research designs, methods and early results of their work while experts from a number of related disciplines offered commentary designed to push the projects in other substantive and methodological directions. Project sessions were structured around a set of expert lectures on topics such as urban and community planning, remote sensing and environmental health management. Students and other participants engaged senior presenters during open discussions, focused breakout sessions and informal discussions, all set against the lovely backdrop of Santa Monica Bay.

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