Cynthia Buckley

Cynthia Buckley is a social demographer with academic and policy publications across topics including population, health, gender, and state capacity. A retired Professor of Sociology, she is currently a regional and methodological consultant pursuing research at the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center and Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She also serves as a registered observer on the WHO Health Cluster for Ukraine, assisting members with grant proposals and project development. Her current research focuses on assessing trends in displacement and health across regions and socio-demographic groups in Ukraine. She  serves as a Co-PI (with Nathalie Williams, UW PI) of a new multi-case NSF-funded project exploring approaches to best practices for research ethics in the context of armed conflict among resident and non-resident scholars, states, INGOs, and NGOs, and is will be examining contemporary population health, migration, and fertility trends in Ukraine based upon Unicef's Multi Indicator Cluster Survey 7 currently in the field