On April 10, in conjunction with the Population Association of America (PAA) 2025 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, PAA sponsored a large advocacy day in which over 100 scientists from 30 states participated in meetings with their congressional delegations. PAA sponsors a large advocacy day...
It was wonderful to see so many of you in Washington earlier this month attending our Annual Meeting. Your dedication and active engagement is what makes the Annual Meeting such a valuable resource for our community. We regret that many of our colleagues in the federal government...
The Nominations Committee is pleased to put forward the following slate for the 2025 PAA Election. The Nominations Committee includes Jenna Nobles, University of California, Berkeley, Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan, National University of Singapore, and Jennifer Van Hook, Pennsylvania State...
It seems that every day brings new challenges and threats to our working environments and the research that we have dedicated ourselves to advancing. Now, more than ever, we need each other to provide mutual support and highlight the importance of and to advance population research. To that...
PAA is excited to announce the next co-Editors of Demography are Hedwig Lee, M. Giovanna Merli and Marcos A. Rangel at Duke University. The new team will take over leadership on July 1, 2025. In their own words: “We are honored by the trust that the PAA Board and...
Please see this video message from PAA President Irma Elo on how PAA is responding to the uncertainty in our government. Ways you can help… Action Alerts Stayed tuned to your e-mail for alerts of when and how to contact your Congressional representative. See PAA Action...
During the week of January 27, 2025, data from federal agency websites and portals began disappearing, including data produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Agency for International Development. Although some of these data have since been...
As the presidents of the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers , we are writing to express our alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. ...
FINAL PAA APC statement on federal data purge 2-25.pdf
On January 27, the Acting Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo , requiring all Federal agencies to “complete a comprehensive analysis of all of their Federal financial assistance programs” and to temporarily pause funding all activities that could be...