Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series: Giovanna Merli

Giovanna Merli will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.

Topic: Ghanaian Migrant Health Study: Findings from a Feasibility Study

M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Global Health and Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute. Her work straddles demography, Chinese population, society and Chinese diasporas, migration, global health. Her research interests include population and health issues that intersect frontline public policy; the social and behavioral determinants of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases; the evaluation of network-based methods to recruit population representative samples of hard-to-survey, hidden or rare populations; and the application of network sampling approaches to the study of migration and health.