# Center for Demography and Ecology

> **NIH NIH P2C** · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · 2020 · $398,349

## Abstract

Overall Component
Project Summary/Abstract
This application requests five years of support for the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison. CDE is a highly-productive population research center, with 70 affiliates in
21 departments across four colleges conducting work that directly addresses the three components of the
Population Dynamics Branch scientific mission. CDE has held NICHD center grant funding continuously since
1972, and this application requests continuation of that support under NICHD's Population Dynamics
Research Infrastructure Program (P2C). Support is requested for an Administrative Core, a Development Core,
and a Scientific and Technical Core. The center grant would support an integrated and interdisciplinary
collection of scholars whose research spans the field of population science. During the past five years, CDE has
recruited a large number of excellent young scientists and established scholars and strengthened its ties across
campus with departments, research centers and institutes in fields related to CDE's research areas. Our
research portfolio is now more diverse, more interdisciplinary in character, and covers a greater portion of the
life course than in the past. CDE affiliates conduct research in five primary research areas: (1) Fertility,
Families and Households; (2) the Demography of Inequality; (3) Health and the Life Course; (4)
Biodemography; and (5) Spatial and Environmental Demography. In addition to innovative research in each of
these areas, CDE researchers continue to collect and produce high-quality data for use by the population
research community, including a growing body of genetic and biomarker data. Continued infrastructure
support from NICHD will allow CDE to leverage substantial commitments from the University, a large portfolio
of individual research grants, and outstanding human and organizational resources to promote innovative
interdisciplinary research in population science.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10000965
- **Project number:** 5P2CHD047873-17
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
- **Principal Investigator:** Marcia Jeanne Carlson
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $398,349
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2004-07-15 → 2024-02-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10000965

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10000965, Center for Demography and Ecology (5P2CHD047873-17). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10000965. Licensed CC0.

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