The PRI Library has received an announcement from the Congressional Research Service for a Specialist in Aging Policy.

America’s big industrial cities are shrinking as people move to the South and West and to the suburbs, according to new Census estimates released today (AP via Centre Daily Times). Phoenix is now the country’s fifth-largest city, surpassing Philadelphia.

State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth and a youth supplement, Growing Up Urban, are available online from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

The report predicts that more than half of the world’s population will live in towns and cities by next year, and urban growth will be particularly fast in Africa and Asia (New York Times).

A Norwegian study found that first-born children had higher IQs, and attributed the gap to parental treatment rather than genetics (Baltimore Sun).

The research was published in the June issue of Science.

Is low birth weight a cause or a symptom of other problems? That question was addressed by sociologist Dalton Conley and professor of pediatrics Marie McCormick at a symposium sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Population Center and the Population Reference Bureau. A webcast of the symposium is available on the Population Reference Bureau Web site.

Final MEASURE DHS Datasets have been released for Lesotho (2004), Cambodia (2005), and Nepal (2006). Please contact the Data Archivist if you are interested in obtaining any of the datasets.

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Addressing Global Needs for the Development and Strengthening of International Epidemiological Capacity Building Activities and Surveillance Systems for Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases… - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Advancing Novel Science in Women’s Health Research (ANSWHR) (R03) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Advancing Novel Science in Women’s Health Research (ANSWHR) [R21] - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

AHRQ National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities (R01) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities (R21) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Development of Environmental Health Outcome Indicators - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Harmonization of Longitudinal Cross-National Surveys of Aging (R21) - National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Identifying and Reducing Diabetes and Obesity Related Health Disparities within Healthcare Systems (R01) - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R21) [receipt dates changed] - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) - National Institute on Aging (NIA) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Kluge Center Fellowships - Library of Congress, Kluge Center

Mentoring Programs to Diversify the Mental Health HIV/AIDS Research Workforce through Innovative Educational Initiatives (R25) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

National Poverty Research Center - Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)

NCMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Initiative in Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities: Intervention Research Phase (R24) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)

Research on Interventions that Promote Research Careers (R01) - National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Survey of International Educational Exchange Activity in the United States - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

The National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s Community Cancer Centers program will facilitate research and encourage collaboration among private-practice medical, surgical and radiation oncologists to improve cancer care for underserved patients, according to a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

World Health Statistics 2007 is available as a searchable online database from the World Health Organization (WHO). The database includes health indicators for WHO’s 193 member states.

The PRI Library has received an announcement for Mapping Global Inequality, a UC Atlas conference.