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Section Member Spotlight

Karen Hooker, Ph.D. is a section member presenting one of our invited symposia at the 2017 NCFR Annual Conference  in November. Karen has a long history of research and teaching in adulthood and aging—she founded the Center for Healthy Aging Research at Oregon State University and led the first National Science Foundation–funded Integrative Graduate Education Research & Training (IGERT) grant on aging. Karen and her colleagues will be presenting “The Longevity Dividend: What It Means for Families” at the annual conference. Social change and longer lives dovetail to create new challenges in family relationships over the life course. The purpose of this symposium is to increase understanding of how demographic and technological changes have an impact on families and policies. Symposium speakers include Elaine Anderson, Ingrid Connidis, Gunhild Hagestad, Rick Settersten, and Judith Treas—Karen promises a lively discussion from these eminent researchers! Bring your game: #ambivalence #threegenerations #bookendsoflife #policymatters! 

More on the NCFR Annual Conference

NCFR 2017 is right around the corner! We will be meeting in sunny Orlando, Florida. Here are some exciting things to look forward to at the annual conference:

• A record-breaking 190 proposals were submitted to our section, so we have lots of presentation slots! Make sure to check out all of the Families and Health (FH) sessions in the conference schedule. 
• In addition to our Outstanding Student and New Professional Award and Outstanding Professional Paper/Publications Award, we will be giving out best poster awards for the first time – one for professionals and one for SNPs. 
• Our section will have the first ever triple-section meeting with the Family Policy and Ethnic Minorities Sections. We will meet together as the Families and Health Section for the first hour of our section meeting, and then join with the other two sections for our roundtables, which include opportunities to work on symposium proposals for the next NCFR Annual Conference, propose policy briefs, discuss important topics in the field, and swap teaching or clinical ideas and resources. This tri-section meeting will be Thursday, Nov. 16, 6:30-8:30pm, after the University Receptions. We will offer dinner because of the timing of the meeting.
• At our section meeting there will also be door prizes, great networking, free memberships for newcomers who want to try our section out, and pizza!

Logo Contest

We are still collecting entries for the logo design competition! Any Families and Health Section member is eligible to submit a logo design that represents the essence of the Families and Health Section. The competition will go until we have a winner. Submit logos to me at [email protected]. The winner of the logo contest will receive a one-year membership to NCFR.