Tracking U.S. population changes and their impact on health

Urban Institute researchers H. Elizabeth Peters, Steven Martin and Nan Astone will share their latest findings on shifting U.S. demographics and how the nation’s changing population is raising issues related to health.

The group will provide their most recent analysis of people living in the United States and related social characteristics, looking at age, geography and other data, and discuss future research on contraception access.

The trio of experts will offer insights from recent data on those characteristics in residents ages 20 to 29, known as millennials, and how that group’s demographics is impacting the current and future U.S. population.

Reporters will learn more about how to find the latest trends in U.S. demographics to spark larger discussions about demographics, millennial, race, marriage and population trends. Susan Heavey, AHCJ’s topic leader for social determinants of health care, will moderate the webcast.

Sept. 30, 3:30 p.m. ET

• Nan Marie Astone, senior fellow in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute

• Steven Martin, senior research associate in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute

• Elizabeth Peters, director, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute

• Moderator: Susan Heavey, AHCJ core topic leader on social determinants of health

Nan Astone joined the Urban Institute in 2013 after serving 24 years on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a demographer with expertise on reproductive health, the family, adolescence, and the transition to adulthood. Astone, a former William T. Grant Scholar, received her PhD from the University of Chicago.

Steven Martin works on various topics in social demography; his particular area of interest has been modeling demographic events across the life course. His recent work has covered a range of demographic topics across the life course, such as nonmarital childbearing, fertility timing, childlessness, union formation and dissolution, and age at entry into sexual activity as well as topics in time use, wellbeing, the “digital divide,” and the quality of data from event-history surveys.

Elizabeth Peters is the director of the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute. An economic demographer, her research focuses on family economics and family policy, specifically examining the effects of public policies such as divorce laws, child support policy, child care policy, taxes, and welfare reform on family formation and dissolution; inter- and intra-household transfers; father involvement; and family investments in children.

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