Academic Year 2024–2025

Meetings, presentations, and group activities

SWANA POP at PAA 2025

SWANA POP members presented research across a range of topics at the 2025 Population Association of America Annual Meeting.

  • Abhishek Bhatia — Patient Addresses in Electronic Health Records: New Source of Data on Spatial Mobility? (Oral)
  • Mary Abed Al Ahad — The Timing of Critical Life Events Across Generations and Origin of Descendants of Immigrants in Sweden: Which Comes First, Homeownership, Marriage, or Childbirth? (Poster)
  • Mary Abed Al Ahad — Homeownership, Marriage, and Childbirth Trajectories Across the Life Course of Descendants of Immigrants in Sweden: A Multilevel Multistate Event History Approach (Poster)
  • Jasmin Abdel Ghany — Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat and Infant Mortality: Evidence From Mali (Oral)
  • Georgina Gemayel — Reproductive Autonomy in the Face of Changing Temperature and Precipitation: A Case Study of Egypt and Jordan (Oral)
  • Katharina Klaunig — The Differential Roles of Migration Exposures in the Timing of Migration (Oral)
  • Alfredo Rojas — Climate and Anemia in Reproductive-Age Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Oral)
  • Alfredo Rojas / Georgina Gemayel — Childhood Anemia in a Changing Climate (Poster)
  • Goleen Samari — Women’s Empowerment and Socioeconomic Development (Invited Session)
  • Fatima Touma — Immigrant Generation and Racial/Ethnic Trajectories of Self-rated Health and Depressive Symptomology From Adolescence to Early Midlife in the United States (Oral)
  • Sarah Wahby — The Nexus of Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict in Sudan (Poster)

Academic Year 2024–2025 Member Meetings

During the academic year, SWANA POP members met to share research, discuss work in progress, and connect around common interests and research goals.

April 2025

  • Katherina Klaunig — PAA Presentation Practice: The Differential Roles of Migration Exposures in the Timing of Migration

  • March 2025

  • PAA Planning Meeting — We used this meeting to organize our PAA 2025 activities and in-person events.

  • February 2025

  • Georgina Gemayel — Climate extremes and women's nutrition in SW Asia & North Africa

  • January 2025

  • Sarah Wahby — Climate impacts on migration in Sudan

  • November 2024

  • Alfredo Rojas — Climate extremes impact anemia in women in low- and middle-income countries

  • October 2024

  • Sinem Esengen — ‘There is prison behind me, death in front of me, and freedom is ahead’: Asylum Seeker Trends and Narratives of Political Asylum Seekers

  • October 2024

  • Ayşe Perihan Kırkıç — Redefining Racial Boundaries: Muslim MENA Identities in the American Racial Landscape


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