Spring 2012
All seminars occur on Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Room 532b, Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Allan Rosenfield Building
722 West 168th Street
RSVP required to cprc@columbia.edu
All seminars (except where noted)
also available via videoconference in
Room 1109, School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue b/w 121st St. and 122nd St.
January 26 *videoconference in Room 705 at School of Social Work
"Low-Profile Latinos: Immigration, Marginalization and HIV Risk among Latino Gay and Bisexual Men"
Diana Hernandez, Associate Research Scientist of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
February 9
“Autism Diagnosis: From Research to Practice and Policy”Catherine Lord, Attending Psychologist, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and Director, Institute for Brain Development at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University Medical Center
February 23
"Counting maternal deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. A case study in Senegal"
Geraldine Duthe, Institut national d'etudes demographiques, and Visiting Scholar to the Columbia Population Research Center and the Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Stephane Helleringer, Assistant Professor, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
March 8
"Migration and Social Integration through the Lens of Youth"
Marta Tienda, Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
March 29
“Preventing Family Homelessness: Evaluation of New York City's HomeBase Program"
Peter Messeri, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Brendan Andrew O'Flaherty, Professor of Economics
April 12
"A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking"Laurence Steinberg, Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Temple University
April 26
"Family and Job Flexibility: How Class and Gender Shape Work Hours and Schedules"
Naomi Gerstel, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst