
Shelley Clark
Shelley Clark is a demographer whose research explores gender, health, family dynamics and life course transitions. She earned her PhD from Princeton University in 1999 and is founding director of McGill’s Centre on Population Dynamics. Her work spans adolescent transitions during the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa to rural-urban inequalities in North America, with findings published in leading journals and shared with organizations including the World Bank, WHO and the UN.
Latest articles by Shelley Clark

Dangers of falling birth rates in the US have been 'dramatically overstated,' experts say
By Leslie Root, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Shelley Clark published
Opinion While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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