{"id":25118,"date":"2015-10-21T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=25118"},"modified":"2015-10-27T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:17:24","slug":"thomas-perls-md-joins-census-bureaus-national-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/10\/21\/thomas-perls-md-joins-census-bureaus-national-advisory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Perls, MD, Joins Census Bureau\u2019s National Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/10\/COM-Perls-2015-e1445951823302.jpg\" alt=\"COM Perls 2015\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25277\" height=\"265\" width=\"250\" \/>Thomas Perls, MD, BUSM professor of Medicine who specializes in the study of centenarians, has been named to the Census Bureau\u2019s National Advisory Committee. This Committee advises the Census Bureau on a wide range of variables that affect the cost, accuracy and implementation of the programs and surveys, including the once-a-decade census. The committee, which is composed of up to 32 members from multiple disciplines, recently held a meeting to address counting hard-to-reach populations such as children, race and ethnic populations, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expertise of this committee helps us meet the emerging challenges we face while producing statistics about our diverse nation,\u201d Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson said. \u201cBy helping us better understand a variety of issues that affect statistical measurement, this committee will help ensure that the Census Bureau continues to provide relevant and timely statistics in an increasingly technologically oriented society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perls, who specializes in the study of centenarians, will advise the Census Bureau on a wide range of variables that affect the cost, accuracy and implementation of the programs and surveys, including the once-a-decade census. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25279,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25118\/revisions\/25279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}