Center Overview Center Director: Dr. Isaac Eberstein

The Center for Demography and Population Health, an independent unit within the College of Social Sciences at Florida State University, was established by Charles Nam in 1967 to bring together researchers working on identifying and explaining the causes and consequences of trends in population and health. For four decades, CDPH has housed researchers from multiple disciplines including Sociology, Economics, Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Anthropology, History, Statistics, Epidemiology, and Medicine. In addition to collaborating in population and health-related research, CDPH Research Associates play active roles in training students who have population and health-related interests. Associates are integral members of specialized doctoral programs in several departments within the College of Social Sciences, including health and aging, social demography, population economics, and environmental planning. CDPH also offers its own Masters degree in Demography (MSD) for students seeking applied research and training experience. The MSD degree prepares students for careers in government agencies at the national, state, and local levels or for positions in the many private-sector firms that depend on demographic expertise.

A Professional services division of the CDPH, the Healthy Communities Program, has been established to provide academically sound and directly relevant research to public and private decision makers in Florida. The consulting service plays an active role in preparing students for professional careers.

Facilities

The Center for Demography and Population Health occupies a suite of offices on the sixth floor of the Bellamy Building on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee, Florida's capital city. The Bellamy Building also houses the home departments of the Center’s core faculty, including Economics, Geography, Sociology, and Urban & Regional Planning. Home departments of most CDPH affiliates, including the Colleges of Medicine and Social Work and the Departments of Biostatistics and Psychology, as well as Strozier Library and Dirac Science Library are all within a few minutes’ walk.

The CDPH features a Local Area Network file server dedicated to research use by Center-affiliated faculty and graduate students. The server provides both password-secured and public-access storage, both of which can be accessed from faculty offices, student carrels, and the Center’s computer lab.

CDPH maintains the College’s network license for Stata software. The Center also maintains both general-purpose (e.g., SAS, SPSS) and more specialized (e.g., aML, LIMDEP) statistical software packages, which are provided to Center Associates and graduate students upon request. The Center maintains a small research library. In addition, Center members have access to the College data laboratory which has includes extensive holdings, including the U.S. Census files and United Nations Demographic Yearbooks historical sequence, and the university is a full participant in ICPSR.

								Location Florida State University 601 Bellamy Building 113 Collegiate Loop Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2240 Map Contact 850/644-1762 850/644-8818 Fax Email: popctr@fsu.edu


				Center Overview Center Director: Dr. Isaac Eberstein The Center for Demography and Population Health, an independent unit within the College of Social Sciences at Florida State University, was established by Charles Nam in 1967 to bring together researchers working on identifying and explaining the causes and consequences of trends in population and health. For four decades, CDPH has housed researchers from multiple disciplines including Sociology, Economics, Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Anthropology, History, Statistics, Epidemiology, and Medicine. In addition to collaborating in population and health-related research, CDPH Research Associates play active roles in training students who have population and health-related interests. Associates are integral members of specialized doctoral programs in several departments within the College of Social Sciences, including health and aging, social demography, population economics, and environmental planning. CDPH also offers its own Masters degree in Demography (MSD) for students seeking applied research and training experience. The MSD degree prepares students for careers in government agencies at the national, state, and local levels or for positions in the many private-sector firms that depend on demographic expertise. A Professional services division of the CDPH, the Healthy Communities Program, has been established to provide academically sound and directly relevant research to public and private decision makers in Florida. The consulting service plays an active role in preparing students for professional careers. Facilities The Center for Demography and Population Health occupies a suite of offices on the sixth floor of the Bellamy Building on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee, Florida's capital city. The Bellamy Building also houses the home departments of the Center’s core faculty, including Economics, Geography, Sociology, and Urban & Regional Planning. Home departments of most CDPH affiliates, including the Colleges of Medicine and Social Work and the Departments of Biostatistics and Psychology, as well as Strozier Library and Dirac Science Library are all within a few minutes’ walk. The CDPH features a Local Area Network file server dedicated to research use by Center-affiliated faculty and graduate students. The server provides both password-secured and public-access storage, both of which can be accessed from faculty offices, student carrels, and the Center’s computer lab. CDPH maintains the College’s network license for Stata software. The Center also maintains both general-purpose (e.g., SAS, SPSS) and more specialized (e.g., aML, LIMDEP) statistical software packages, which are provided to Center Associates and graduate students upon request. The Center maintains a small research library. In addition, Center members have access to the College data laboratory which has includes extensive holdings, including the U.S. Census files and United Nations Demographic Yearbooks historical sequence, and the university is a full participant in ICPSR.