UC Davis Center for Poverty & Inequality Research

10/10/2025

Dr. Brittany Chambers Butcher’s CARE (Community Strategies to Advance Reproductive Justice and Equity) Lab was selected to participate in UC Davis Crowd Fund this October to support research focused on advancing Black Maternal Health. We are asking our community to join together in giving back to support this important mission.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to be a part of the movement! Learn more here: Give Now!

Please make a gift today!

10/02/2025

Check out this UC Davis crowdfunding campaign on the impacts of inequality on child health in India — powerful work by Center affiliate Paul Hastings and his team.

Please make a gift today!

04/05/2022

🌐🌱⚕️ On Saturday, May 7 and are hosting UC Global Health Day 2022 in-person and virtually. This day-long collaborative conference showcases the innovative research and initiatives occurring across the and celebrates the theme of Centering in .

For tickets, go to tinyurl.com/UCGHD2022

UC Global Health Day 2022 will be held on Saturday, May 7th at the University of California, Santa Cruz!

02/01/2022

Big Announcement! CPIR is excited to be part of the latest cohort of worthy causes raising money as part of .

Our goal is to raise $5000 to offer Dissertation Grants to PhD students doing groundbreaking original research. The clock is ticking, so please don’t delay: check out our campaign and, if you can, help us support the next generation of poverty and inequality scholars at UC Davis. https://crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/project/29771

11/19/2021

Join us this afternoon at 3:30pm for a seminar presented by UC Davis's Anne Visser and Martin Kenney. Registration information on our website.

Anne Visser and Martin Kenney, UC Davis

11/04/2021

Our next seminar is tomorrow, November 5th from 3:10-4:00pm. CPIR Affiliate Drew Halfmann will be presenting. Register for Zoom meeting details.

Drew Halfmann, UC Davis

11/04/2021

Visiting Scholars Program Spring 2022 Call for Applications – Due 12/13/2021, 11:59 PM Posted on October 28, 2021 Application Deadline: December 13, 2021, 11:59 p.m. View/download PDF version of the Call About the Program The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin.....

10/20/2021

Big News! "The UC Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research recently received a $353,421 federal grant to launch a program to help up-and-coming poverty scholars get their careers off to a strong start." Read more about this exciting program in partnership with Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)

CPIR Awarded Grant, Deputy Director Jacob Hibel to lead mentoring insitute

09/29/2021

New funding opportunity from Healthy Eating Research aimed at funding research on how COVID-19-related relief and recovery policies and programs impact child health and well-being. Learn more and apply. https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/announcement/new-funding-opportunity-healthy-eating-research

08/26/2021

Congratulations to affiliate Professor Lisa Pruitt on this honor!

Congratulations to Professor Lisa Pruitt, who received the Excellence in Research Award from the Rural Sociological Society this past weekend. Way to go, Professor Pruitt! Read more:
https://bit.ly/3ymctmv

08/18/2021

The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research are cohosting the "Tax Policy For Low-Income Americans” web conference next Friday, August 27, from 1-4:15pm EDT/12-3:15pm CDT/10am – 12:15pm PDT. Registration link and more details below.

The “Tax Policy For Low-Income Americans” web conference brings together scholars to discuss new research on the EITC and ...

07/14/2021

Affiliate J. Paul Leigh just published a literature review in Economics & Human Biology about the relationship between minimum wage and health. Dr. Leigh finds the new minimum wage improves mental health. Read more in this month's Economics & Human Biology.

Economics & Human Biology | July 8, 2021