Health and Attainment Over the Life Course:
Reciprocal Influences from Before Birth to Old Age
This conference is sponsored by:Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago; Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University; Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago; Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS), The University of Chicago
Friday, May 16, 2008
8:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.*
The University Club of Chicago**
76 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603
(By invitation only, see below for registration details.)
This multidisciplinary conference will feature economists, sociologists, demographers, and developmental psychologists discussing new research on the reciprocal pathways linking health and attainment across the lifespan. Speakers will pay careful attention to important questions such as: (a) the extent to which observed linkages can be interpreted as causal; (b) what mechanisms or processes might explain these linkages; and (c) how such linkages might vary in strength and form across different subgroups of the population.
Speakers:
P. Lindsay Chase-LansdaleProfessor of Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy; Director, Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Andrea Danese
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, University of London
Greg J. Duncan
Edwina S. Tarry Professor, School of Education and Social Policy; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research and C2S, Northwestern University
Margot I. Jackson
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University Office of Population Research and Center for Health and Well-Being
Rucker Johnson
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Alberto Palloni
Board of Trustees Professor in Sociology; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research and C2S, Northwestern University
Bryan Samuels
Chief of Staff, Chicago Public Schools
Mark Stabile
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Rotman School of Management, School of Public Policy and Government, Department of Economics; Director, School of Public Policy and Government, University of Toronto
To Register:
This invitation-only conference is free but requires registration by
May 1.
Please click here
to register. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come,
first-served basis.
*Please note that the conference will include a continental
breakfast (8-8:25am), a plated lunch, and a cocktail reception
beginning at 4:30 p.m.
**Please be aware that The University Club has a dress code.
Business attire is required. Please click here for more detail.
(No denim is allowed).
For more information:
Please visit http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/chppp/Health_Attainment
or contact Laurel Spindel, Associate Director, Center for Human
Potential and Public Policy, (p) 773.520.0533 or ljspinde@uchicago.edu.