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White House Releases Equitable Data Working Group Report
On April 22, the Equitable Data Working Group (EDWG) released a report on advancing the use of equitable data in the federal government. Established in response to President Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities...
GPAC Session on Federal Efforts to Address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Every year the APC & PAA Government and Public Affairs Committee (GPAC) is invited to sponsor a session at the PAA meeting to highlight the organization’s interests in timely, policy relevant topics. Given President Biden’s interest in promoting enhanced...
President Biden Unveils Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request
On March 28, President Biden released his proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget request. The President is required by law to submit the budget request to Congress by the first Monday in February. However, this year’s submission was delayed while Congress and the...
APC & PAA Support Funding AHRQ in FY 2023
The 135 undersigned members of the Friends of AHRQ respectfully request no less than $500 million in funding for the Agency for Healthcare and Research and Quality (AHRQ). The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports research to improve health care...
2022 PAA/APC Virtual Advocacy Day
Population Scientists “Log On” to Talk Data, Funding, and Research On February 28, a delegation of officers and invited members of the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers representing a dozen states met with 32 offices in the U.S....
Small Towns/Big Trends: Demographic Insights on Living, Working and Thriving in Rural America
Members are invited to attend this virtual congressional briefing on Friday, March 18 at 12:00pm ET. Register here. Within a generation, Rural America has undergone profound demographic, economic, social and environmental change. While issues such as the drug overdose...
NSF Reauthorization Moves Closer to Fruition
On Friday, February 4, the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 4521, the America COMPETES Act of 2022, a sprawling bill that creates or reauthorizes scientific research programs and infrastructure at several federal agencies, including the National Science...
Multisociety Letter Urging Finalization of FY22 Appropriations
PAA and APC have joined over 50 scientific societies in a letter urging Congress to finalize FY22 appropriations w/ robust support for scientific R&D. Investing in S&T is a bipartisan win for everyone! We urge Congress to finalize FY22 appropriations &...
Government and Public Affairs Committee Looks Ahead to 2022
The PAA/APC Government and Public Affairs Committee (GPAC) marked the end of 2021 with the departure of several committee members (Joe Hotz, Jarron Saint Onge, Matt Hauer, Eileen Crimmins, Marcy Carlson, and Giovanna Merli) and began 2022 by welcoming six new members:...
Population Scientists Engage Leaders at the National Institutes of Health
On Friday, December 17, officials representing the Population Association of America (PAA) and the Association of Population Centers (APC) met with the directors and senior program staff at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute of Child Health and...
Braving the Storm: How Climate Change Will Affect How and Where We Live
View the recording. On December 6, 2021, the Population Association of America (PAA), with support from the Association of Population Centers (APC), sponsored a virtual congressional briefing, “Braving the Storm: How Climate Change Will Affect How and Where We Live.”...
Requesting Funding for HHS’s new Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE) in FY 2022
PAA and APC signed this final joint letter requesting $6 million for HHS’s new Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE) in Fiscal Year 2022. The letter has been sent to the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on...
APC Signs Letter Urging Congress to Increase Census Funding
Along with PAA, APC signed this Census Project letter urging Congress to provide the Census Bureau with no less than $1.4 billion in the final Fiscal Year 2022 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill. The letter also urges the Congress to consider increasing...
Senate Releases Fiscal Year 2022 Proposed Funding Bills
On October 18, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee released its remaining draft Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 appropriations bills, including the Commerce, Justice, Science and Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bills, which together fund most...
Statement On the Retirement of Dr. William Riley, Director, National Institutes of Health, Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
On behalf of the organizations we lead, the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers, we thank Dr. William Riley, Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR), for his dedicated...
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APC and the Population Association of America work together to educate policymakers about population research outcomes and the federal agencies that support population, or demographic, research. These objectives are achieved through the work of the APC/PAA Government and Public Affairs Committee (GPAC).
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