News from the Network

The website for the COVerAGE-Database, a global demographic database on COVID-19, was published recently by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. More than 70 researchers from around the world collaborated to collect COVID-19 data from 120 countries, standardising it and making it available online.

How does migration affect their well-being and economic situation? And how can these factors be measured? To answer these questions, Dr. Gruber uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).

The European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) announced on 2 July at the closing ceremony of the European Population Conference in Groningen the EAPS Award 2022 Winners.

EAPS is grateful to all candidates who accepted to run in these elections for their willingness to serve our community and their commitment to EAPS.

The Population Young Author Prize is open to students or young researchers working in the field of population studies and will be awarded to the most outstanding original paper submitted to the competition jury.

Sonja Spitzer was honoured with the prestigious Maria Schaumayer Stiftung award for her excellent doctoral dissertation entitled “Health measures and healthcare utilisation in ageing populations: Demographic and economic perspectives”.

How did social and spatial inequalities in mortality evolve in the context of industrialisation, tertiarization, rising living standards, improved social security and medical progress?