ISU researchers participate in national family health conference
More than 50 Iowa State University researchers in human development and family studies will offer their expertise in family health in areas including parental substance abuse, sibling tensions and family finance at a national conference this week in Minneapolis. The meetings are part of this year’s National Council on Family Relations annual conference. This year’s conference theme, “Families and Human Rights: Promise and Vulnerability in the 21st Century,” will foster conversations related to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Participants will discuss issues of poverty, hunger, education access, gender inequality, incarceration and discrimination, among other topics. To read more about the research they will present, click here.