The UP Population Institute is pleased to share the good news that Ms. Denise Hyacinth Musni (MA Demography 2022) is this year’s winner of the prestigious Loretta Makasiar-Sicat (LMS) Prize for the Social Sciences. The LMS Prize recognizes excellence in research in the social science by Filipino graduate students.
The Institute is pleased to announce that the research proposal entitled, "Studying the understudied phenomenon: Levels, trends, and correlates of under-15 fertility in the Philippines," by Assoc. Prof. Maria Paz N. Marquez and Prof. Maria Midea M. Kabamalan has been selected for the 2024 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Mentored Papers Program.
In the 2022 Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Data Dissemination Forum conducted by the Philippines Statistics Authority last February 29, Prof. Maria Paz Marquez posed this question: How does the latest birth statistics impact our lives, or what does it tell us about the kind of society that we have now?
The University of the Philippines Population Institute is pleased to present the Documentation Report of the 2020 Census-based National Population Projections, officially released by the Philippine Statistics Authority on 31 January 2024.
UPPI faculty members, researchers, and students presented their research papers and posters at the International Scientific Conference of the Philippine Population Association. The conference was held on 7-8 March, 2024 at the Cagayan State University – Andrews Campus in Tuguegarao City, with the theme ‘Addressing Global Risks and Population Challenges towards Sustainability: The Philippine Lens’.
Dr. Elma P. Laguna, Director of the UPPI joins Dr. Sara Riese of ICF International and Dr. Azaz bin Sharif of North South University in Bangladesh as co-facilitators of the 2024 DHS Fellows Program. The Fellows program is an important component of the capacity-strengthening strategy of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program.
