Pamela Smock named Chair, NICHD's Population Sciences Subcommittee Study Section

Beginning July 1, 2008, Pamela Smock will succeed Herbert Smith (Univ of Pennsylvania) as Chair the Population Sciences Subcommittee. This study section reviews R03 applications, K01s and K23s addressing issues such as: marriage and family; mortality and morbidity; immigration; internal migration; population distribution; economic demography and labor force; ethnography; population and environment; and social, economic, and demographic aspects of fertility and contraception, sexual behavior, policy, child well-being, transition to adulthood, child abuse and neglect, disability, AIDS/HIV/STDs, race and ethnicity, health, neighborhoods, geographic information systems, and culture.