Upcoming Meetings

The annual meeting of the Southern Demographic Association (SDA) will be held in Annapolis, Maryland, October 29-31, at the Calvert House. SDA invites paper submissions from all interested individuals on demographic topics, as well as proposals from individuals to organize sessions, round tables, software demonstrations, panel discussions, or workshops. SDA welcomes graduate student participation. Students who wish to be considered for the Student Paper Award (which honors the best paper presented at the meeting and pays $100) should submit an abstract by the June 1 deadline, and forward the paper by August 15. The deadline for submitting program ideas and paper abstracts is June 1. Please send submissions to: Louis Pol, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182; Phone: 402.554.2596; Fax: 402.554.3747; Email: Lpol@cbafaculty.unomaha.edu.

The Seventh Biannual International Conference on Applied and Business Demography is scheduled to be held in Annapolis, Maryland, October 29-31, in conjunction with the Southern Demographic Association Meetings. The 1998 conference will focus on market and business applications in demography and innovative applications of demographic methods in non-traditional areas. Submissions are invited from all interested individuals. Please send an abstract describing your proposed presentation by June 30 to the attention of either KV Rao or Jerry Wicks at: Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA; Phone: 419.372.2294; Fax: 419.372.8306; Email: apd98@india.bgsu.edu. Email abstracts are acceptable, but please include a complete mailing address.

To share results from its five-year study on the impact of family planning experiences on women's lives, Family Health International's Women's Studies Project (WSP) will host a conference, Women's Lives and Family Planning: International Perspectives, June 22-23 at the Georgetown University Conference Center, 3800 Reservoir Road, Washington, DC. The WSP has emphasized collaboration among researchers, policy-makers and providers, and women's health advocates to increase the quality and relevance of the research as well as to foster its use. Discussion will be encouraged. For more information, contact Mr. Alfred Nimocks at 703.516.9779 or animocks@fhi.org.

The First International Health Geographics Conference will be held October 16-18. The conference, co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Environmental Systems Research Institute, (ESRI) Inc., will comprehensively bring together for the first time people from many different disciplines who share a common foundation--the geographic aspects of health--to foster dialogue between health care providers, researchers, managers, and policy analysts, including doctors, epidemiologists, medical researchers, environmental scientists, geographers, geologists, computer scientists, statisticians, ecologists, hydrologists, entomologists, toxicologists, business managers, regulators, and others appreciative of the links between GIS and health. For further information contact the International Health Geographics Conference Committee, c/o Omar A. Khan, Co-Chair, 1600 Ruxton Road, Suite B7, Baltimore, Maryland 21204; Email: okhan@jhuccp.org; Phone: 410.659.6149; Fax: 410.659.6266.