A number of staff and students participated in the Population Association of America 2015 Annual Meeting held in San Diego from 30 April to 2 May 2015.

Peter McDonald was presented with the Irene B. Taeuber Award at the meeting on Friday 1 May 2015. The Irene B Taeuber Award is presented biennially in recognition of an unusually original or important contribution to the scientific study of population or for an accumulated record of  exceptionally sound and innovative research. more information

Terry Hull and James Raymer chaired sessions and the following people presented papers or posters:

Gender Differences in Health Expectancy among Older Persons in the Philippines (poster)
Jeofrey B. Abalos

Cardiometabolic Disease Risk and HIV Status in Rural South Africa: Establishing a Baseline (poster)
F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Brian Houle, Margaret Thorogood, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Jill Williams, Jane Menken, Stephen Tollman

The Impacts of Maternal Mortality and Cause of Death on Children's Risk of Dying in Rural South Africa: Evidence from a Population-Based Surveillance Study (1992-2013)
Brian Houle, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Alicia Ely Yemin.

Overcoming Data Issues to Project Interregional Migration Flows amongst Australia’s Indigenous Population
James Raymer

Sexual Behavior and Substance Use among Young People in Nepal: What Roles Do Families Play? (poster)
Jyotsna Tamang

Who Wears the Hijab? Predictors of Veiling in Greater Jakarta
Iwu D. Utomo, Anna Reimondos, Ariane J. Utomo, Terence H. Hull, Peter McDonald

You Have Got to Be Carefully Taught: The Effect of Parent’s Gender Role Performances on Indonesian Children’s Attitudes towards the Role of Women in the Private and Public Sphere
Iwu D. Utomo, Anna Reimondos, Ariane J. Utomo, Peter McDonald