Research Development

Director:  Andrew Cherlin (Director, HPC)

The HPC is using developmental infrastructure funds in several ways:  providing seed grants, supporting working groups, and supporting research and policy workshops and mini-conferences.  Its goal is to encourage interdisciplinary research and to support the development of new investigators.
 
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1. Biology and Environment in Race/Ethnic Disparities in Childhood Obesity
   Jonathan Ellen & Andrew Cherlin
   
2. 
   Consequences of Birth Weight
   Nan Astone
   
3. 
   Migration, the State and Health Transition in Southern Chad
   Lori Leonard
   
4. 
   Parity and Later-Life Health among Women in Egypt
   David Bishai
   
5. 
   Mental Health Needs of Older Displaced Persons within the Republic of Georgia
   Courtland Robinson
   
6. 
   Population-Based Explanations for the Increase in Obesity in Western Countries
   Lingxin Hao & Thomas Glass
   
7. 
   Successful Black Marriages
   Katrina Bell McDonald
   
8. 
   Life Table Imbalances in Infant and Adult Mortality
   Vladimir Canudas-Romo
   

(Updated:  October 2009)