Rigor and Reproducibility Seminar

Given jointly by the UMass Chan Medical School, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and UMASS Boston, Gerontology Department and Gerontology Institute

Monday, April 3, 2023

12:00 – 1:00 PM

“Sharing Confidential and Sensitive Data?”

Presented by: George Alter, Ph.D.

Research Professor Emeritus

Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan

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George Alter is Research Professor Emeritus in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.  His research integrates theory and methods from demography, economics, and family history with historical sources to understand demographic behaviors in the past.  From 2007 to 2016, Alter was Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, the world’s largest archive of social science data, and he is a past president of the Social Science History Association.  He has been active in international efforts to promote research transparency, data sharing, and secure access to confidential research data.  He is currently engaged in projects to create FAIR vocabularies in population research, to automate the capture of metadata from statistical analysis software, and to compare fertility transitions in contemporary and historical populations.

A joint Info Session by the CCTS & the Bridge Office

"An Introduction to I-Corps at UMass Chan" Nate Hafer, PhD and "What to Expect When You Are Inventing" Chase Gerold

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