Center for Demography and Ecology

Project Summary/Abstract This supplement requests one year of additional support for the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. CDE is a highly-productive population research center, with over 70 affiliates in over 25 departments across seven colleges conducting work that directly addresses the three

components of the Population Dynamics Branch scientific mission. CDE has held NICHD center grant funding continuously since 1972, and this application requests continuation of that support under NICHD's Population Dynamics Research Infrastructure Program (P2C). Support is requested for an Administrative

Core, a Development Core, and a Scientific and Technical Core. The center grant will continue to support an integrated and interdisciplinary collection of scholars whose research spans the field of population science. During the past five years, CDE has recruited many excellent young scientists and established scholars and

strengthened its ties across campus with departments, research centers and institutes in fields related to CDE's research areas. Our research portfolio is now more diverse, more interdisciplinary in character, and covers a greater portion of the life course than in the past. CDE affiliates conduct research in five primary

research areas: (1) Families and Family Change; (2) Health & Biodemography; (3) Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility; (4) Spatial & Environmental Demography; and (5) Gender & Reproductive Health. In addition to innovative research in each of these areas, CDE researchers continue to collect and produce

high-quality data for use by the population research community, including a growing body of genetic and biomarker data. Continued infrastructure support from NICHD will allow CDE to leverage substantial commitments from the University, a large portfolio of individual research grants, and outstanding human and

organizational resources to promote innovative interdisciplinary research in population science.