Our Partners

The PSC is home to the Population Aging Research Center (PARC). PARC is one of thirteen demography centers supported by the National Intitute on Aging's (NIA) P30 grants to foster research in demography, economics and epidemiology of aging and to promote use of important datasets in the field. Many PARC researchers are also affiliated with the PSC.

Two-thirds of the R24 program scientists have primary appointments in SAS; with the rest primarily from Wharton, the business school (6), Medicine (4), and Nursing (3). Within SAS, 13 are in Sociology, 8 in Economics, and 5 elsewhere. The disciplinary background of the PSC is more balanced: 17 have Ph.D.s in Sociology, 17 in Economics, and 16 have highest degrees in other fields (from Animal Behavior to Medicine to Statistics; some double-counting due to M.D./Ph.D.’s).

The Director works with the Deans in SAS, the Chairs of Sociology and Economics, and administrators in other Schools to make appointments that strengthen the PSC and that the PSC helps in the Schools’ recruitments. SAS and Sociology are committed to appointments to strengthen the core of the PSC. There are 2-3 appointments outstanding in population. Economics has a flow of positions and faculty (Krueger, Cunha) interested in joining the PSC; in addition to appointments of demographers who are Economics Ph.D.s, who are appointed in Sociology. Both Wharton and General Internal Medicine see the PSC as important to their recruitment, and are investing accordingly.

The PSC has strong exchange relationships with centers/programs in other Schools: the Boettner Center (Mitchell, Director; Soldo, past Boettner Chair; Preston, Boettner Foundation trustee; Smith, Boettner Chair search cmte) was formerly in the PSC and participates with the PSC and PARC in the TRIO pilot grant program; the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR, Aiken, Director; Clarke, Smith) which coordinates research (P30, R01) and training (T32) activities (faculty support and expertise, and support of joint programming personnel) with the PSC; and 2 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation post-doctoral programs, the Health & Societies Program and the Clinical Scholars Program, (Armstrong and Schnittker, each co-directors of one) which involve other PSC faculty (Berhman, Soldo, Polsky, Mandell) and jointly housed post-docs with primary interests in population studies (e.g., D. Alley, V. Maralani).