Deborah Balk

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, Demography, 1991

MPP, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Public Policy, 1985

AB, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, International Relations, 1984

FULL-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Baruch College, City University of New York, Associate Professor, Public Affairs, Oct 2006-present

Graduate Center, City University of New York, Associate Professor, Sociology, Oct 2006-present

Institute for Demographic Research, City University of New York, Acting Associate Director, Oct 2006-present

Center for International Earth Science, Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, Research Scientist, 2006-present

Socioeconomic Data and Application Center, CIESIN, Columbia University, Lead Project Scientist, 2000-present

Center for International Earth Science, Information Network (CIESIN) Columbia University, Associate Research Scientist, 1998-2006

Socioeconomic Data and Application Center, CIESIN, Columbia University, Co-Project Scientist 1998-2000

East-West Center, Research Fellow, 1994-1997

University of Michigan, Population Studies Center, Mellon Post-Doctoral Scholar, 1991-1994

PART-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Columbia University, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology, Winter 2000

University of Michigan, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology, Winter 1993

NON ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

International Centre of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Resident Consultant, 1985-1987

EMPLOYMENT AT BARUCH

Associate Professor, October 2006 - present

COURSES TAUGHT AT BARUCH

PAF 9198 - Public Affairs Workshop (Map Making for Policy)

ARTICLES IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

G. McGranahan, D. Balk and B. Anderson, (forthcoming, 2007). “The rising risks of climate change: Urban population distribution and characteristics in low elevation coastal zones,” Environment and Urbanization.

S. Doocy, G. Burnham, Y. Gorokhovich, D. Balk and C. Robinson, (forthcoming, 2007). “Tsunami Mortality Estimates and Vulnerability Mapping in Aceh, Indonesia,” American Journal of Public Health.

M. Wirth, D. Balk, E. Delamonica, A. Storeygard, E. Sacks, and A. Minujin, (July 2006). Setting the stage for equity-sensitive monitoring of the maternal and child health MDGs,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 84 (7): 519-527.

G. McGranahan, D. Balk and B. Anderson, (2006). “Low coastal zone settlements” Tiempo: A Bulletin on Climate and Development, issue 59: April. Available at: www.teimpcyberclimate.org .

D. L. Balk, U. Deichmann, G. Yetman, F. Pozzi, S.I. Hay, and A. Nelson, (April 2006). Determining Global Population Distribution: Methods, Applications and Data,” in Hay, S.I., Graham, A.J. and Rogers, D.J. (eds), Global mapping of infectious diseases: methods, examples and emerging applications. Advances in Parasitology, volume 62. (London: Academic Press) pp. 119-156.

D. Balk, A. Storeygard, M. Levy, J. Gaskell, M. Sharma, R. Flor, (2005). “Child hunger in the developing world: An analysis of environmental and social correlates,” Food Policy, 30 (5-6): 584–611.

D. Balk, T. Pullum, A. Storeygard, F. Greenwell, M. Neuman, (2004). “A Spatial Analysis of Childhood Mortality in West Africa” Population, Space and Place 10: 175-216.

K. Yount and D. Balk, (2004). “A Demographic Paradox: Causes and consequences of Female Genital Cutting in Northeastern Africa.” Advances in Gender Research 8: 199-249.

B. O’Neill and D. Balk, (September 2001). “Projecting World Population Futures” Population Bulletin 56 (3), also available at http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PRB/ AboutPRB/ Population_Bulletin2/World_Population_Futures.htm

B. O’Neill, D. Balk, M. Brickman, and M. Ezra, (2001). "A guide to global population projections" Demographic Research, 48 (8): 203-288, available at http://www.demographic-research.org/. Also available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/tg/guide_main.jsp

D. Balk, (1997). “Defying Gender Norms in Rural Bangladesh: A Social Demographic Analysis,” Population Studies, 51(2): 153–172.

D. Balk and S. Lahiri, (1997). “Awareness and Knowledge of AIDS among Indian Women,” Health Transition Review, 7 (Supplement): 421–465. (http://www-nceph.anu.edu.au/htc/htr.htm.)

D. Balk, (1994). “Individual and Community Aspects of Women’s Status and Fertility in Rural Bangladesh,” Population Studies, 48(1): 21–45.

G. Simmons, D. Balk and K. K. Faiz, (1991). “A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Family Planning Programs in Rural Bangladesh: Evidence from Matlab,” Studies in Family Planning, 22(2): 83-101.

Proceedings:

D. Balk, F. Pozzi, G. Yetman, U. Deichmann, and A. Nelson, (March 2005). “The distribution of people and the dimension of place: Methodologies to improve the global estimation of urban extents.” International Society for Phobtogrammetry and Remote Sensing Proceedings of the Urban Remote Sensing Conference, Tempe, AZ.

L. VanWey, R. Rindfuss, M. Gutmann, B. Entwisle, and D. Balk, (2005). “Confidentiality and Spatially Explicit Data: Concerns and Challenges,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102 (43): 15337–15342.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

D. Balk, M. Wirth, E. Delamonica, A. Storeygard, E. Sacks, and A. Minujin (forthcoming, December 2006). “Multidimensional disparities in maternal and child health: Measuring a baseline, Monitoring the future,” in Poverty and Children. Policies to break the vicious cycle, A. Minujin and E. Delamonica (eds), New York: New School University.

G. McGrahanan, P. Marcotullio, X. Bai, D. Balk, T. Braga, I. Douglas, T. Elmqvist, W. Rees, D. Satterthwaite, J. Songsore, and H. Zlotnik, (2005). “Urban Systems”, Chapter 22 in Conditions and Trends Assessment of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Chicago: Island Press.

R. deFries, S. Pagiola, W.L. Adamowicz, H. Akçakaya, A. Arcenas, S. Babu, D. Balk, U. Confalonieri, W. Cramer, F. Falconí, S. Fritz, R.Green, E. Gutiérrez-Espeleta, K. Hamilton, R. Kane, J. Latham, E. Matthews, T. Ricketts, T. X. Yue., (2005). “Analytical Approaches for Assessing Ecosystem Condition and Human Well-Being,” Chapter 3 in Conditions and Trends Assessment of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Chicago: Island Press.

D. Balk, (2000). “To Marry and Bear Children? The Demographic Consequences of Female Circumcision in the Sudan,” in Female ‘Circumcision' in Africa: Culture, Controversy and Change, Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund (eds), Lynne Reinner Publishers. Pgs. 55-71.

REPORTS/MONOGRAPHS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

D. Balk, M. Brickman, B. Anderson, F. Pozzi, G. Yetman, (2005). “Estimates of Future Global Population Distribution to 2015,” Annex in Salvatore M., Pozzi F., Ataman E., Huddleston B. and Bloise M. Mapping global urban and rural population distributions, Environmental and Natural Resources Working Paper N. 24, (Rome: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization).

D. Balk, Y. Gorokhovich, and M. Levy, (7 January 2005). “Estimates of Coastal Population Exposed to the 26 December 2004 Tsunami,” Note prepared for the Humanitarian Information Unit of the US Department of State. (Available at http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/tsunami2004.html )

D. Balk, A. Storeygard, and G. Booma, (6 February 2004). “Mapping Access to Maternal Health Care Facilities in Bangladesh”, Prepared for the Millennium Project Task Force 4 on Maternal and Child Mortality. (Available from www.unmillennium.org)

D. Balk, K. K. Faiz, U. Rob, J. Chakraborty, and G. Simmons, 1988. An Analysis of the Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of the Family Planning Health Services Project in Matlab, Bangladesh (Dhaka: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh).

BOOK REVIEWS IN FIELD OF EXPERTISE

Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo, Harriet Presser and Gita Sen, eds., in Studies in Family Planning, September 2001, 32 (3).

Fertility Transitions, Family Structure, and Population Policy. Calvin Goldscheider, ed. in Contemporary Sociology, March 1993, 22, (2): 219–220.

OTHER ARTICLES

A. Policy Briefs, On-line Guides, and Working Papers:

de Sherbinin, A., D. Balk, K. Yager, M. Jaiteh, F. Pozzi, C. Giri, and A. Wannebo. 2002. Social Science Applications of Remote Sensing, A CIESIN Thematic Guide (peer-reviewed), Palisades, NY: Center for International Earth Science Information Network of Columbia University. Available on-line at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/tg/guide_main.jsp

B. O’Neill, D. Balk, M. Brickman, and M. Ezra. 2001. A Guide to Global Population projections: A CIESIN Thematic Guide (peer-reviewed) available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/tg/guide_main.jsp

S. Nghiem, D. Balk, C. Small et al. Nov. 2001, “Global Infrastructure Mapping: The Potential for SRTM to Break New Ground” White Paper produced from Workshop on, available at: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/whitepaperfinal.pdf.

U. Deichmann, D. Balk and G. Yetman, Oct. 2001. “Transforming Population Data for Interdisciplinary Usages: From Census to Grid,” available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/plue/gpw/GPWdocumentation.pdf.

D. Balk. April 1997. “Changes come slowly for women in rural Bangladesh,” Asia-Pacific Population and Policy, No. 41.

D. Balk, T. Brown, G. Cruz, and L. Domingo. Jan. 1997. “Are young people in the Philippines taking chances with AIDS?” Asia-Pacific Population and Policy, No. 40.

S. Lahiri, D. Balk, and K. B. Pathak. Oct.1995. “Women in 13 States Have Little Knowledge of AIDS,” NFHS Bulletin, No. 2.

B. Peer-reviewed Databases

Gridded Population of the World (GPW). Lead responsibility for the development and dissemination of versions 2 and 3 of GPW database. Global database, on a 2.5 arc minute quadrilateral grid, representing the distribution of human population based on census population counts as matched to administrative data. These versions represent a 10- and again 3-fold increase in the number of input units (120,000 and 400,000, respectively) from the first version of GPW, but continue to use the basic method developed by Tobler and colleagues (1997). These data were extensively reviewed by beta-testers. Data are publicly available:

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University; and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), 2004. Gridded Population of the World (GPW), Version 3. Palisades, NY: Columbia University. Available at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw.

Global Rural Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP). Lead responsibility for the development and dissemination of version 1 of three related databases to account for urban areas in the global distribution of human population. Building on the GPW approach, this project additionally collected, manipulated, and interpolated population data for settlement points from census and other agencies, then associated with urban extents where extents were primarily derived from satellite data from the night-time lights 1994/95 city lights dataset, and then reallocated to 30 arc second (or nominally 1 km) quadrilateral grid. These data were peer-reviewed. Data are publicly available as follows:

GRUMP Human Settlements
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University; International Food Policy Research Institute (IPFRI), the World Bank; and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), 2004. Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP): Settlement Points. Palisades, NY: CIESIN, Columbia University. Available at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw.

GRUMP Urban Extents
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University; International Food Policy Research Institute (IPFRI), the World Bank; and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), 2004. Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP): Urban Extents. Palisades, NY: CIESIN, Columbia University. Available at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw.

GRUMP 1km Population Grid
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University; International Food Policy Research Institute (IPFRI), the World Bank; and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), 2004. Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP): Gridded Population of the World, version 3, with Urban Reallocation (GPW-UR). Palisades, NY: CIESIN, Columbia University. Available at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw .

Poverty Mapping Data Collection
Shared responsibility (with M. Levy) for the development of global and regional-scale databases, and a collection of spatially-explicit national-level small area estimates, on poverty proxies to support the United Nations Millennium Project. At the global scale, subnationally-representative survey data (from the Demographic Health Surveys, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, and others) are rendered at the highest subnational unit permissible by their sampling frame indicating infant mortality and weight-for-age of children ages 1-3. These data are then transformed into a quarter-degree grid for analysis with geophysical factors. At the national scale, a value-added collection of poverty proxies, including measures of consumption, inequality, and food-poverty, for over 25 countries have been collected, catalogued, and rendered in spatial and non-spatial formats, and is publicly available at http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/ .

Global Infant Mortality Database
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). 2006. Global subnational infant mortality rates [dataset]. CIESIN, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA. Data are publicly available at http://beta.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/.

Global Child Underweight Database
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). 2006. Global subnational rates of child underweight status [dataset]. CIESIN, Palisades, NY, USA. Data are publicly available at http://beta.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/.

Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates (PLACE)
Shared responsibility (with M. Levy) for the construction and distribution of a national-level tabular dataset constructed from sub-national spatially related units. The data set includes estimates of national-level aggregations for the following thematic areas: 1) biome; 2) climate; 3) coastal proximity; 4) elevation; and 5) population density. The data facilitate comparison across countries on such measures as the number of persons living within 100 kilometers of a coast, the percent of territory above 2,000 meters, and the number of persons living within different climatic zones. The collection is currently being expanding to include new themes (land cover, urban areas and ecosystems) and new geographies (subnational units). These data were reviewed by invited beta-testers. Data are publicly available from:

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, 2002. National Aggregates of Geospatial Data: Population, Landscape and Climate Estimates (PLACE), Palisades, NY: CIESIN, Columbia University. Available at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/plue/nagd/place

PRESENTATIONS

A full list of conference presentations is available upon request. Papers presented frequently at these annual or periodic meetings: Population Association of America and Association of American Geographers, and occasionally or infrequently at these meetings: American Public Health Association, American Sociological Association, ESRI Users Conference, International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology Conference, International Conference on Remote Sensing of the Environment, ISLSCPII Workshops, International Health Geographics Conference, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Conference, International Urban Health Conference, Measure/DHS GIS Working Group meetings, NASA Investigators Working Group Meeting and the Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Change Research Community.

D. Balk, G. McGranahan, and B. Anderson, “The rising risks of climate change: Urban population distribution and characteristics in low elevation coastal zones.” Paper to be presented at the Population Association of America, 29-31 March 2007.

K. Jones, N. Patel, M. Levy, A. Storeygard, D. Balk, J. Gittleman, and P. Daszak, "Spatial Patterns of Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Exploration of Geographic Drivers." Poster presentation at the, Earth System Science Partnership Open Science Conference, 12 November 2006, Beijing, China.

D. Balk, G. McGranahan, and B. Anderson, "Interactive Vulnerabilities: A Systematic Assessment of Population and Land Area in Distribution in Urban Coastal Zones", paper presented at the Earth System Science Partnership Open Science Conference 11 November 2006, Beijing, China.

M. Levy, D. Balk and R. Chen. "Poverty Mapping: New Advances in Spatial Data." Annual Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) meeting, Santiago, Chile, 5-10 November 2006.

D. Balk, G. Deane, A. Storeygard, M. Levy, S. Ahamed, “The Biophysical Determinants of Global Poverty: Insights from an Analysis of Spatially Explicit Data,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 30 March-1 April, 2006 Los Angeles.

M.R. Montgomery, D. Balk, M.Levy, M. Muniz, and A. Storeyguard, “Poverty and Inequality in Southern Africa: Results from a Poverty Mapping Study,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 30 March-1 April, 2006 Los Angeles.

D. Balk, M. Muñiz, G. Deane, M. Montgomery, A. Storeygard, and M. Levy, “The Spatial Distribution and Correlates of Poverty: Lessons from Global and Small-Area Scale Analyses,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 30 March-1 April, 2006 Los Angeles.

M. Levy, D. Balk, G. Deane, A. Storeygard, and S. Ahamed, “The Geographical Correlates of Global Poverty,” Paper presented at the Open Meeting of Human Dimensions of Global Change Research, Bonn, Germany, October 2005.

D. Balk, F. Pozzi, G. Yetman, U. Deichmann, and A. Nelson. 2005. “The distribution of people and the dimension of place: Methodologies to improve the global estimation of urban extents.” International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Proceedings of the Urban Remote Sensing Conference, Tempe, AZ, March 2005.

D. Balk, Y. Gorokhovich, and M. Levy, 2005. “Estimates of Coastal Population Exposed to the 26 December 2004 Tsunami,” (available at http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/tsunami2004.html) Presented at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, “Tectonics, Politics and Ethics: The Tsunami and Its Aftermath, March 2005; and at The Earth Institute Symposium, February 2005.

D. Balk, T. Pullum, A. Storeygard, F. Greenwell, M. Neuman, 2003. “A Spatial Analysis of Mortality in West Africa” GIS series 1, Demographic and Health Surveys, Calverton, MD: Macro International. (and presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Boston, April 2004, and the Association of American Geographers Meeting, Philadelphia, March 2004).

D. Balk. “Integrating Socioeconomic and Demographic Data with Satellite Data for Public Health Applications,” paper presented at a Special Session at the American Public Health Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, November 2003.

S. Findley, D. Balk, N. Sogoba, O. Nyiade, and M. Barlow. “Tracking the Sensitivity of Early Childhood Diseases to Climate Variability in Niono District, Mali” paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Atlanta, May 2002.

A. Fairchild, D. Balk, M. Lynch, E. Robilloti, and M. Brickman. “Death and density: TB, population, and housing in turn-of-the century New York City, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, GA, October 2001.

PAPERS SUBMITTED TO JOURNALS

K. E.. Jones, N. Patel, M.A. Levy, A.Storeygard, D. Balk, J.L. Gittleman and P. Daszak.”The global pattern of infectious disease emergence and re-emergence in humans” August 2006. under review. (And presented at National Science Foundation Investigators Meeting, September 2006).

A. Storeygard, D. Balk. M. Levy and G. Deane, “The Global Distribution of Infant Mortality: A Subnational Spatial View”, under review.

M. Muniz, D. Balk, M. Montgomery, M. Levy and A. Storeygard, “Charting a New Course in the Analysis of Poverty and Inequality: Contributions from a Spatial Framework” under review.

OTHER WORKS IN PROGRESS

D. Balk, G. Deane, A. Storeygard, M. Levy, S. Ahamed, “The Biophysical Determinants of Global Poverty: A Multivariate Assessment of Invariance,” to be submitted for review Spring 2006.

M.R. Montgomery, D. Balk, M.Levy, M. Muniz, and A. Storeyguard, “Poverty and Inequality in Southern Africa: Results from a Poverty Mapping Study,” to be submitted for review Spring 2006.

M. Levy, D. Balk, A. Storeygard, G. Deane, and S. Ahamed, “The Geographical Correlates of Global Poverty,” to be submitted for review Spring 2006.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Revitalizing Urban Population Projections: New Data, New Methods. Grant pending support from the NICHD, expected March 2007.

D. Balk, M. Montgomery, T. Buettner, eds. Projecting the Urban Future: New Methods and Data for Estimation and Projection of City and Urban Population (provisional title), Book in preparation for Springer-Verlag.

D. Balk, G. McGranahan, and B. Anderson. A Systematic Assessment of Population and Land Area Distributions in Urban Coastal Zones. Paper to be presented at Global Environmental Change Open Science Conference, Beijing, China, 9-12 November 2006.

D. Balk, B. Anderson, and G. McGranahan, “Urbanization and Ecosystems: Towards a Better Understanding of the relationship,” paper in preparation for Living in an Urban World, to be published by UNICEF and EarthScan (peer-reviewed).

PROFESSIONAL HONORS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow 1989–1991

Accelerated Master’s Degree in Public Policy 1983–1985

Honor’s Program, College of LS&A, University of Michigan 1980–1983

GRANTS-IN-AID

Advanced Synthetic Aperture Scatterometer (Sas) Concept And Dense Sampling Method (Dsm) For Global Land Use Change In Urban And Suburban Environments, NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, September 2006-January 2008. Interdisciplinary city-scale study integrating sociodemographic data with optical and radar satellite data to construct typologies and classifications for intra-urban and peri-urban areas.

Socio-economic and Environmental Drivers of Emerging Infectious Diseases, National Science Foundation, November 2005-October 2006. Multidisciplinary research to analyze the role that human and social dynamics play in disease emergence and to develop a predictive model that will identify ‘hotspots’ for future disease emergence.

Workshop on Advancing New Methods to Revise Urban Population Projections, March 2005-January 2006. Columbia Earth Institute’s Advance Project of the National Science Foundation. Interdisciplinary workshop of experts to discuss uses of new sources of data and emerging methods in urban population estimation and forecasting, with a decided emphasis on methods that make use of spatially disaggregated data and developing country applications. Co-sponsored by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and the United Nations Population Division.

Setting the Stage for Equity-Sensitive MDG Monitoring, United Nations Millennium Project Task Force of Child and Maternal Mortality, June 2004 – June 2005. Analysis of health equity of maternal and child mortality indicators by selected strata for Millennium Project case-study countries.

Gridded Global Population Density, Projected to 2015, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, January 2004 – October 2004. Development of a database of the distribution of future population, extrapolated to 2015.

An Assessment of Hunger Hotspots in Africa, (co-PI with M. Levy), United Nations Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger, March 2004 – August 2004. Analysis of the determinants and correlations weight-for-age variation at the household- and subnational-levels in Africa.

Spatial Analysis of Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan West Africa, Macro International, March 2003 – March 2004. Analysis of child mortality in 10 West African countries using Demographic Health Survey data linked with spatial and environmental variables.

Development of Spatial Databases of Human Settlements and of Urban and Rural Population Distribution for the Developing World, World Conservation Monitoring Centre, January 2003–December 2003; and International Food Policy Research Institute, January 2001–December 2002. Construction and implementation of a methodology to produce a global database of urban extents, and associated point settlements and population distribution grid, at 1km resolution.

Methodology for applying IRI climate forecast for local public health interventions: A pilot study of climate-health-population mobility interactions in Mali, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, February 2001-December 2002, co-PI with Sally Findley (PI).

Human Dimension of Climate and Land Cover Change in Kenya, Columbia University Earth Institute SMART Fund Award, December 2000 – June 2002.

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

A. Service to the Department: N/A

B. Service to the School: None

C. Service to the College:

Facilities Committee, Baruch College

D. Service to the Graduate Center: None

E. Service to the City University:

Acting Associate Director, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research
Director Search Committee, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research
Advisor, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, Sustainable New York Knowledge Network

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE

A. Committee Memberships (invited):

National Research Council, Member, Committee on the Effective Use of Data, Methodologies and Technologies to Estimate Sub-national Populations at Risk, ad hoc committee of the Geographic Sciences Committee, November 2005-September 2006.

National Research Council, Member, Panel on Confidentiality Issues Arising from the Integration of Remotely Sensed Data with Social Science Survey, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, January 2005–December 2006.

International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Member, Panel on Urbanization, 2004-2006.

Measure Demographic and Health Survey GIS Working Group, Macro International, 2000–present

Organizing Committee, Annual Meetings of Population Association of America, 1997

B. Membership in Professional Organizations:

International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (long-term), 1992- present

Population Association of America (long-term), 1989- present

American Sociological Association (occasional), 1991-4, 1999-2001

American Public Health Association (occasional), 1988-1990; 2001-2003

Association of American Geographers (occasional), 2000-2005

Social Science History Association (recent), 2005-

C. Invited Panel and Peer-Reviews:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Applied Sciences Program, Panel Reviewer for Decision 05 CAN study proposals, 2005.

National Research Council, Paper reviewer for the Panel on New Research in Population and the Environment, Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change, 2004.

National Institutes of Health, Invited to be a panel reviewer for the Health, Environment and Economic Development RFA (declined due to conflict of interest), 2003.

Occasional journal reviewer for Population Studies, Demography, Studies in Family Planning, International Family Planning Perspectives, Population, Space, and Place, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and Remote Sensing and Environment (among others).

D. Organization of Scientific Meetings Workshops:

Organizing committee, Urban Remote Sensing/Urban2007 Meeting, 10-13 April 2007, Paris, France

Workshop on Rethinking the Estimation and Projection of Urban and City Populations, January 2006, co-organizer

Global Spatial Data and Information User Workshop, September 2004, co-organizer

Confidentiality and Geospatial Data Workshop, for NASA’s Public Health Applications Program, June 2003, co-organizer

Global Poverty Mapping Workshop, March 2003, co-organizer

Global Infrastructure Workshop, October 2000, Lead organizer

Gridded Population Workshop, May 2000, Lead organizer