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Kate Duchowny, Margaret Hicken


About the Population Council:

The Population Council conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research on critical health and development issues. We generate ideas, produce evidence, and deliver solutions that lead to more effective policies, programs, and technologies that improve lives around the world.

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Adolescent Data Hub

Hamidreza Zoraghein conducts research on the intersections of population, environment, and climate change and is an expert on spatial analysis and population modeling. At the Population Council, Zoraghein co-leads the Demographic Modeling for Human and Environmental Research project and helps spearhead the Community Demographic Model (CDM), a set of tools that provide computer simulations of population dynamics and change. CDM has been widely adopted to investigate the relationships between population, economic, climate, and environmental changes.

Zoraghein also carries out research, supported by the European Commission, to illustrate the nuances of population distribution with major applications in global urbanization and human-environment dynamics. He contributes to the COVID-19 forecast hub of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, collaborating with the University of Colorado Boulder on high resolution spatiotemporal forecasting of COVID-19 incidence using machine learning.

Zoraghein earned a PhD in geography from the University of Colorado Boulder.

 

Ricardo Regules García is a researcher at the Population Council Office in Mexico City. In 2019, Regules García joined the Council’s Population, Environmental Risks, and Climate Crisis Initiative (PERCC). He has engaged in different collaborative research projects with other researchers at the Council to conduct sub-national demographic and urbanization projections in the context of climate change. More recently, he has engaged in research activities aimed at analyzing the intersection of gender, youth ages, and climate change, as well as its relation to violence, mental health, and wellbeing.

Regules García has also focused on efforts to understand the effects of the COVID-19 mitigation measures on youth (PC’s VoCes-19 study); and to expand access to safe and legal abortion, and to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS) and the well-being of girls and adolescents. Since 2019, Regules Garcia has collaborated with The National Pro-Choice Alliance (Mexico)—a consortium of national and international non-governmental organizations working to address access to SRHR in Mexico.

Regules García holds a PhD in population studies from El Colegio de México (COLMEX).

About the authors

Kate Duchowny
Kate Duchowny Kate Duchowny is a social epidemiologist and K99-funded postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her overarching research goal seeks to bridge the social, environmental, and biological determinants of musculoskeletal health and physical functioning in older adults to inform interventions. Her current research is organized around two lines of inquiry: 1) Identifying which aspects of the built and social environment matter most in helping older adults maintain independence and physical mobility, and; 2) Examining life course sociobiologic mechanisms (e.g., viral infections, mitochondrial function) that drive disparate outcomes in physical disability especially related to neighborhoods.

Margaret Hicken
Margaret Hicken Maggie Hicken is on faculty at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She is trained as a social demographer and social epidemiologist and, more recently completed training in population and statistical genetics through a 5-year K01 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her research program focuses on the ways in which cultural and structural racism maintain racial inequities in population health by linking scholarship from the humanities and social science to molecular biology and biological stress pathways. In her current NIH-funded research, she examines the role of historical and contemporary racial surveillance and control on population health through contemporary exposures to pollution. Further, she examines the burden of cultural racism experienced by Black Americans through hypervigilance in everyday life and its impact on the biological stress systems and health.

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