Drop-in office hours & coffee with Prof. William Axinn, Interim IPC Director
Speaker
Prof. William Axinn (Interim Director, IPC)Date & time
Location
This is an in-person event for current Ford School students.
Coffee and light snacks will be provided.
Join Prof. William Axinn, International Policy Center (IPC) Interim Director, for drop-in office hours to learn more about Prof. Axinn’s work, IPC offerings, and an exciting new Research Assistant opportunity with the Society, Population and Environment (SPE) program!
This year, IPC will organize events drawing upon Prof. Axinn’s work on health to engage Fordies in health-related policy issues outside of the U.S. These events will include a visit by a leading survey expert from Ukraine currently working with Axinn to study the impact of the war there on children’s health and well-being. IPC will welcome one of Belgium’s leading psychologists, who uses general population measures of mental health to guide the Flemish government’s budget allocation to mental health services. Axinn will also present his own work on the long-term mental health consequences of exposure to armed conflict.
Speaker Bio
William Axinn is a research professor at the Institute for Social Research, professor in the Department of Sociology, a faculty affiliate at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and a professor of public policy. He is a sociologist and demographer whose research interests center on fertility and family demography. Axinn’s program of research addresses the relationships among social change, the social organization of families, intergenerational relationships, marriage, cohabitation, fertility and mental health in the United States and Nepal. He also studies the interrelationships between population and the environment and new techniques for the collection of social science data. More recently in his career, Axinn’s interests have evolved to include public policy applications of his research. His teaching centers on the family, the life course, fertility and research methods.
