APPENDIX A
Workshop Agenda
June 21-22, 2001
Session 1:
Comparative Advantages and Disadvantages of Longitudinal Community Studies, Panel Studies, and Cohort Studies
Demographic Analysis of Community, Cohort, and Panel Data from Low-Income Countries: Methodological Issues
Andrew Foster
Responses to Foster paper from various longitudinal approaches:
Duncan Thomas, Panel studies
Linda Adair, Cohort studies
James F. Phillips, Longitudinal community studies
Session 2:
The Value and Contributions of Longitudinal Studies to Science and Policy
Historical Lessons from Cohort and Household Longitudinal Studies
Barry Popkin
Longitudinal Community Studies: Time to Invest or Time to Cut Back?
Stephen Tollman
Lessons from Longitudinal Studies in Developed Countries
Robert J. Willis
Survival of Adult Women in Rural Bangladesh: A 20-year Follow-up Study Based on the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System and the Determinants of Natural Fertility Study
Jane Menken
Monica Das Gupta, Discussant
Session 3:
Issues in the Design of Longitudinal Collection
Linked Analyses
Allan Hill
Demographic Surveillance among the African Urban Poor: Rationale and Challenges
Pierre Ngom (coauthors: Eliya M. Zulu and Alex C. Ezeh)
Longitudinal Analysis of STDs/HIV/AIDS
Ties Boerma
Agnes Quisumbing, Discussant
Session 4:
Capacity Building and Training
Institution Building Through Longitudinal Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cheikh Mbacke
Capacity Building in the African Census project
Tukufu Zuberi
Training Needs and Efforts
Kenneth Bridbord
Francis Dodoo, Discussant
June 22, 2001
Session 5:
Frontier Issues in Longitudinal Data Collection and Analysis
Integrating Biology into Surveys of Health and Aging: Experiences from the Taiwan Study
Noreen Goldman and Maxine Weinstein
GIS Applications in Longitudinal Research
Stephen Matthews
Stan Becker, Discussant
Session 6:
Ethical Issues Specific to Longitudinal Data
Richard Cash, Presenter
Linda Adair, Discussant
Session 7:
Data Access
Longitudinal Data and Data Sharing: An Overview of the Issues
Chris Bachrach and Jeffery Evans (coauthor)
Wider Accessibility to Longitudinal Datasets: A Framework for Discussing the Issues
Kobus Herbst
Negotiating for Use of Data/Data Linking
Tukufu Zuberi
Martin Vaessen, Discussant
Session 8:
Marshalling Computer Science Innovations for Longitudinal Research
Next-Generation Data Systems for Longitudinal Health and Demographic Studies
Bruce MacLeod and James Phillips (coauthor)
A Relational Data Model to Manage Longitudinal Population Data
Sam Clark
