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Centre on Population Dynamics

  • Professors Sam Harper and Arijit Nandi. Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health.

  • Professors Zoua Vang (Sociology) and Simona Bignami (Demography)

  • Professors Shelley Clark (Sociology) and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (Sociology & Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)

  • Professor Matthieu Chemin (right) collecting data with his team of fieldworkers (Economics)

  • Professors Sonia Laszlo (Economics) and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (Sociology & Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)

  • Professors Christopher P. Manfredi (Dean of Arts), Shelley Clark (Sociology) and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (Sociology & Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health)

  • Professor Philip Merrigan (Economics, UQÀM) giving a talk at the Conference "International Perspectives on Family Structures and Child Well-being"

  • Professor Céline Le Bourdais (Sociology, McGill University) discussing at the Conference "International Perspectives on Family Structures and Child Well-being"

  • Professor Lonnie Berger (Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison) presenting at the Conference "International Perspectives on Family Structures and Child Well-being"

  • Professor Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (Sociology & EBOH, McGill University) presenting at the Conference "International Perspectives on Family Structures and Child Well-being"

  • Professors Simona Bignami (Demography, UdeM), Roderic Beaujot (Sociology, University of Western Ontario) and Eric Tenkorang (Sociology, Memorial University) discussing at the Conference "International Perspectives on Family Structures and Child Well-being"

  • Professor Pamela Smock (Sociology, University of Michigan) presenting at the Conference "International Perspectives on Family Structures and Child Well-being"

Centre on Population Dynamics

  • The Centre on Population Dynamics was founded by Shelley Clark (Director), Céline Le Bourdais and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée and approved by the McGill University’s Board of Governors on May 1, 2012.
  • The CPD is a collaboration between three main departments in two faculties (Sociology and Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health in the Faculty of Medicine).
  • Within the broader area of population dynamics, the Centre will focus on five main research axes:   
  1. Family Dynamics;
  2. Social and Economic Determinants of Health;
  3. Education, Skill Acquisition, and Labour;
  4. Migration;
  5. Aging over the life course.
  • These research axes are united by three overarching themes:
  1. Applied Quantitative Methods;
  2. Life Course Perspective;
  3. Global in Scope covering both the developed and developing countries.
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