PAD people

Dr. Joe D. Francis

Dr. Joe D. Francis is the Director of the Program on Applied Demographics in the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. Joe is an Associate Professor in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Department of Development Sociology. His past experiences include retrieval, display and interpretation of Census data, providing information to local governments, cooperative extension and others needing current Census information. Current extensive research focuses on environmental systems and economic development, including applied work on land use and specialty agriculture production and marketing. His teaching concentration is in research methods and statistics and Geographic Information Systems/spatial statistics. See his profile at the Department of Development Sociology for more information.

Jan Vink

Jan K. Vink is Research Support Specialist with the Program on Applied Demographics. He majored in Econometrics at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). He has advanced skill in statistics, computer programming and data analysis. Jan represents New York State in the US Census Bureau's Federal-State Cooperatives for Population Estimates and Projections.

Suzy Smith

Mary H. (Suzy) Smith is Research Support Specialist with the Program on Applied Demographics. She is involved in collecting and maintaining data.