BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Carolina Population Center - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Carolina Population Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180112T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135044Z UID:35814-1515758400-1515762000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Integrating Behavior\, Biology and Environment to Study Complex Pathways from Urbanization to Health DESCRIPTION:Dr. Annie Green Howard\, Clinical Assistant Professor of Department of Biostatistics\, UNC-Chapel Hill \nAnnie Green Howard has considerable expertise in high-dimensional exposure modeling\, longitudinal and multilevel modeling\, multivariate\, pathway and structural equation modeling\, latent variables\, and missing data. A central theme of her research has been modeling of longitudinal exposures and outcomes\, with substantive focus in the area of cardiovascular disease and obesity. She serves as the lead biostatistician on several projects at the Carolina Population center including research investigating complex pathways to cardiovascular disease in both Add Health and the China Health and Nutrition Study. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/integrating-behavior-biology-and-environment-to-study-complex-pathways-from-urbanization-to-health/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145235Z UID:35813-1512129600-1512133200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:When Should Researchers Use Inferential Statistics When Analyzing Data on Full Populations? DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rob Warren (Professor of Sociology\, University of Minnesota) \nProfessor Warren is a sociologist\, demographer\, population health scholar\, and education policy researcher with experience and expertise in the collection\, production\, and dissemination of large-scale data products for research on health\, aging\, education\, and labor force outcomes. He is currently involved in the construction of the new 100% count historical Census data sets for IPUMS. Dr. Warren has worked intensively on WLS data infrastructure since his first week in graduate school; for example\, he designed and programmed the employment history and job characteristics modules of every survey of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) administered since the mid-1990s. Dr. Warren also serves as the Director of the Minnesota Population Center. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/when-should-researchers-use-inferential-statistics-when-analyzing-data-on-full-populations/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145235Z UID:35812-1510920000-1510923600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:From ‘Opt Out’ to Blocked Out: The Challenges for Labor Market Re-Entry After Family-Related Employment Lapses DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kate Weisshaar (UNC-CH Assistant Professor of Sociology; CPC Faculty Fellow) \nKate Weisshaar is a sociologist whose research focuses on gender and economic stratification processes within families\, workplaces\, and society\, with an interest in developing critical tests of causal processes by leveraging data and quantitative methods. She is particularly interested in how macro-level inequalities in the labor force are reproduced through micro- and meso-level processes in the workplace\, in families\, and in the work-family intersection. Her recent work examined labor market outcomes associated with intermittent labor force participation\, with a specific examination of how periods of unemployment or “opting out” of work for family reasons affect labor market outcomes upon re-entry\, such as hiring prospects\, wages\, and occupational prestige. Kate received her PhD in Sociology from Stanford University\, and has been an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at UNC-Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center since 2016. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/from-opt-out-to-blocked-out-the-challenges-for-labor-market-re-entry-after-family-related-employment-lapses/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171110T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135042Z UID:35811-1510315200-1510318800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Framing the HIV Response For Those Most at Risk: The Granularity Challenge DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sharon Weir (UNC-CH Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; CPC Faculty Fellow) \nProfessor Weir’s research interests relate to methods that identify and characterize local sexual and injecting drug use networks in resource poor settings. This information is key in preventing the spread of HIV. Not only are many people asymptomatic\, which contributes to a hidden epidemic\, but persons occupying central positions in HIV transmission networks are often members of mobile\, stigmatized\, and hard-to-reach populations. Because many people do not know their HIV status and because many of those who are infected are hidden\, there is a need for methods based on sound epidemiologic science that use technology appropriate to the local setting to uncover local transmission networks in a way that leads to effective\, ethical\, and evidence-based prevention. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/framing-the-hiv-response-for-those-most-at-risk-the-granularity-challenge/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135042Z UID:35810-1509710400-1509714000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Data Collection for Network Sampling Approaches for Rare and Hard to Reach Populations: Lessons Learned DESCRIPTION:Dr. Giovanna Merli (Professor of Public Policy and Global Heath\, Duke University) \nM. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy\, Sociology and Global Health in the Sanford School of Public Policy\, Duke University. She is also the Director of the Duke Population Research Center (DPRC). She holds a PhD in demography from the University of Pennsylvania. Before going to Duke\, she was on the faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. Merli has a strong background in the design\, conduct and analyses of surveys fielded among Chinese populations in China and Chinese immigrant destinations. Her NIH-funded data collection efforts have relied on conventional probability sampling designs as well as venue-based and link-tracing sampling approaches to recruit samples of rare and hidden populations. She has also designed ego-centric network modules for the Chinese general population\, which she has used to estimate the behavioral\, social and relational determinants of prevalence of HIV and other STIs in China. In recent work\, she has evaluated the performance of Respondent-Driven Sampling among populations at risk of HIV/STIs. Currently\, in collaboration with Ted Mouw\, she is fielding\, testing and evaluating an innovative sampling approach for rare populations\, Network Sampling with Memory\, among Chinese immigrant populations in the U.S.\, Tanzania and France. \nDr. Ted Mouw (Associate Professor of Sociology; CPC Faculty Fellow) \nMouw’s current research on social mobility focuses on factors that affect the upward mobility of low wage workers. In his paper with Arne Kalleberg\, “Stepping Stone versus Dead End Jobs: Occupational Pathways out of Working Poverty in the United States\, 1996-2012”\, he uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to test whether the accumulation of task-specific skills increases the rate of upward mobility for low-wage workers. In a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation\, he is linking the SIPP data to county-level data on labor demand shocks in order to analyze the role that structural factors play in the upward mobility of low-wage workers. This research builds on previous work that analyzed trends in between-occupation inequality and the impact of job mobility on changes in inequality. In the next five years\, he plans to extend this work into a book-length project on working poverty and the social mobility of low-wage workers. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/data-collection-for-network-sampling-approaches-for-rare-and-hard-to-reach-populations-lessons-learned/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135041Z UID:35809-1509105600-1509109200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Mother's Employment Patterns and Consequences for Adolescent Outcomes DESCRIPTION:Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nAlexandra (Sasha) Killewald is Professor of Sociology\, as well as a faculty member in the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2011. Prior to her appointment at Harvard she was a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Her research takes a demographic approach to the study of social stratification. Much of her work focuses on the work-family intersection. She has published (with Margaret Gough) several articles on the ways in which earnings and employment shape women’s time in household labor. Her current research in this area explores the effect of marriage and parenthood on workers’ wages. \nAnother area of her research examines the influence of parental wealth on adult outcomes\, including the role of parental wealth in explaining the Black-White wealth gap. She has also written (with Kerwin Charles and Erik Hurst) on assortative mating by parental wealth. \nShe is also the author (with Yu Xie) of Is American Science in Decline? (2012)\, which documents trends in the size of the American scientific workforce\, public attitudes toward science\, youth interest in science\, the production of scientific degrees\, and transitions to scientific employment\, in addition to evaluating the position of American science on the international scene. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/mothers-employment-patterns-and-consequences-for-adolescent-outcomes/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171013T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171013T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135041Z UID:35808-1507896000-1507899600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Analyzing Longitudinal Qualitative Data: Stories of How and Why DESCRIPTION:Dr. Clare Barrington\, UNC-CH Associate Professor of Health Behavior\, CPC Faculty Fellow\nProfessor Barrington’s research examines social and structural influences on health and health behaviors\, with a focus on HIV among female sex workers (FSW)\, men who have sex with men (MSM)\, and transgender women in Latin America and Latino migrants in the United States. She has been conducting community-based research in the Dominican Republic for over 15 years. She led a mixed methods study of the social networks of the steady male partners of FSW in the Dominican Republic and most recently has been conducting research to understand and address social and structural determinants of outcomes along the HIV continuum of care among key populations in Santo Domingo. She is also leading an implementation science research project to decentralize HIV care and treatment for MSM in Guatemala City. In North Carolina\, she has been studying the intersection between social networks\, migration\, and HIV among Mexican migrants. Dr. Barrington currently leads the qualitative formative research and evaluation of a study to promote early detection and linkage to care for HIV among Mexican MSM and transgender women in North Carolina. In addition to her HIV-focused work\, Dr. Barrington leads the qualitative component of several mixed methods impact evaluations of health and development programs in Ghana and Malawi. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/analyzing-longitudinal-qualitative-data-stories-of-how-and-why/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135039Z UID:35807-1507291200-1507294800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Activity Spaces and Youth Development: Preliminary Findings from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context Study DESCRIPTION:Dr. Christopher Browning\, Professor of Sociology\, The Ohio State University\nChristopher Browning is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and an affiliate of the Institute for Population Research at Ohio State University. His research focuses on neighborhood and activity space influences on health and adolescent development\, emphasizing the causes and consequences of neighborhood social processes such as collective efficacy and network dynamics. He is the Principal Investigator of the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/activity-spaces-and-youth-development-preliminary-findings-from-the-adolescent-health-and-development-in-context-study/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135038Z UID:35806-1506686400-1506690000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Of Men and Microbes: Social Determinants of the Microbiome DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jenn Dowd is currently Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, King’s College London. She is also Research Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the CUNY School of Public Health\, City University of New York\, where she was a faculty member from 2008-2016. Her research covers topics in social epidemiology and population health focusing on the interaction of social and biological factors over the life course. Specific projects include understanding the role of stress and immune function in health inequalities\, links between infectious and chronic disease\, trends in educational attainment and mortality\, and the impact of long-term obesity on health and functioning.\nDr. Dowd received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004 with a focus on economics and demography from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research. From 2006-2008\, Dr. Dowd was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/of-men-and-microbes-social-determinants-of-the-microbiome/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135038Z UID:35805-1506081600-1506085200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:300 Million Test Scores and What Do We Know? Educational Opportunity and Inequality in the US DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sean Reardon\,\nProfessor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology\nDirector\, Stanford Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in Quantitative Education Policy Analysis \nSean Reardon is the endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and is Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology at Stanford University. His research focuses on the causes\, patterns\, trends\, and consequences of social and educational inequality\, the effects of educational policy on educational and social inequality\, and in applied statistical methods for educational research. In addition\, he develops methods of measuring social and educational inequality (including the measurement of segregation and achievement gaps) and methods of causal inference in educational and social science research. He teaches graduate courses in applied statistical methods\, with a particular emphasis on the application of experimental and quasi-experimental methods to the investigation of issues of educational policy and practice. Sean received his doctorate in education in 1997 from Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a recipient of the William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award\, the National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship\, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/300-million-test-scores-and-what-do-we-know-educational-opportunity-and-inequality-in-the-us/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170915T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135037Z UID:35804-1505476800-1505480400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Uncovering the Various Dimensions of Nutritional Disparities: Innovative Approaches and Public Health Implications DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jennifer Poti\, UNC-CH Research Assistant Professor\, Nutrition\nDr. Poti is a nutritional epidemiologist interested in understanding the complexities of the US food supply\, purchasing patterns\, and dietary intake. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Johns Hopkins University and earned a PhD in Nutrition with a minor in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been at the Carolina Population Center as a member of the Global Food Research Program at UNC since 2010. \nDr. Poti’s research focuses on how shifts in the American diet away from whole foods and home cooking toward highly processed foods and foods prepared away-from-home (e.g. fast food and restaurant foods) are related to dietary quality and obesity among US children and adults. In addition\, her work has focused on monitoring the US food supply and documenting long-term dietary trends among Americans. She is currently studying sources of sodium\, saturated fat\, and sugar in household food and beverage purchases and evaluating changes in the nutrient content of purchases that may occur as a result of manufacturers’ efforts to reformulate packaged foods and introduce new products. She also currently helps to lead her team’s Crosswalk project\, which links nutrition label data to national dietary intake surveys in order to examine nutritional changes in the US food supply and assess potential impact on dietary intake of Americans. Dr. Poti’s work is particularly focused on understanding long-term food purchasing behaviors and diets within critical subpopulations (particularly non-Hispanic black\, Hispanic\, and low-income children and adults) who are at higher risk for obesity and obesity-related cardiometabolic disease. Her research evaluates the differential effects that recent changes in the US food supply have on diet disparities in the US. \nDr. Poti’s research has included successful interdisciplinary collaboration with experts in nutrition\, epidemiology\, and economics. She has formal training in epidemiology and analytic methods including regression modeling\, analysis of categorical data and time-to-event analysis\, advanced methods specifically in nutritional epidemiology and obesity epidemiology\, and econometric modeling methods including longitudinal analysis of panel data and instrumental variable techniques. Dr. Poti’s research experience has provided her with a strong skill set for assessing and representing dietary data\, including analysis at the nutrient\, food\, or food group level; creation of food grouping systems; and dietary pattern analysis using a priori indices or data-driven approaches. She has extensive experience working with large\, population-based nationally representative sources of dietary data\, including the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) dietary intake data and the Homescan commercial food purchase data. Dr. Poti’s published research produced results with important policy implications\, including studies that helped to inform development of the USDA’s nutrition standards for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs as well as work that has been used to develop food procurement standards for the county of San Diego\, CA. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/uncovering-the-various-dimensions-of-nutritional-disparities-innovative-approaches-and-public-health-implications/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170908T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170908T130000 DTSTAMP:20260425T045100 CREATED:20200103T135037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135037Z UID:35803-1504872000-1504875600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:A Cautionary Tale about Parental Involvement in Children's Schooling: How Parental Involvement Really Works DESCRIPTION:Dr. Angel Harris\, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy\, Duke University \nProfessor Harris’s research interests include social inequality\, policy\, and education. He has published several articles and book chapters on the racial achievement gap that have appeared in various academic journals such as Social Forces\, Sociology of Education\, Social Science Quarterly\, the Annals of the American and Political Social Science\, and Sex Roles. Dr. Angel is the author of Kids Don’t Want to Fail (Harvard University Press)\, which provides an in-depth quantitative assessment of whether youth from marginalized groups purposefully resist schooling in both the United States and the United Kingdom. He is also the author of The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children’s Education (Harvard University Press)\, which examines the link between parenting and youths’ schooling outcomes. \nProfessor Harris also serves as Director of the Research on Education and Development of Youth (REDY) Program. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/a-cautionary-tale-about-parental-involvement-in-childrens-schooling-how-parental-involvement-really-works/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR