Welcome to Sam Clark's Web Page

latest update: 2011-02-03



Samuel Clark is a Demographer and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is trained in biology, computer science and demography, and his research focuses on issues that affect Africa.  His recent work has pursued simulation-based studies of the impact of HIV on African populations, methods development to improve the value of estimated and modeled results, empirical investigation of migration and mortality in southern Africa, methods to improve the management and analysis of longitudinal population data, and capacity development for population and health research in Africa and Asia.

 

CV, Publications & Presentations
 

Sam's Current CV (May, 2011)
 

Sam's Brief Scientific Biography

Publications and Working Papers (January, 2010)

Selected Recent Presentations (January, 2010)

Summary of Recent Work at Agincourt HDSS Site, South Africa

Sam's Ph.D. Dissertation in Demography


Download
 

Agincourt DSS Data Access Web Site

The Structured Population Event History Register - SPEHR

Population Simulator from Sam's Dissertation - SPEHS

Life Table Template (MS Excel)

Person Year and Mortality Rate Calculator (MS Access)

Example Person Years and Mortality/Fertility
Rate Calculation using Example Longitudinal DSS Data
In MS SQL Server and Stata


Classes
 

Sociology 220: Introduction to Sociological Methods

Sociology 433: Introduction to Demographic Methods

Sociology 401: Special Topics, African Population

CSDE 555: Health Metrics


Palm PDA Databases
 

Download the UN Population Wall Chart 2002
and Selected Indicators from the
UNAIDS Global Report on the AIDS Epidemic 2004
for the PALM OS PDAs


Contact Details as of January 2010


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