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SUMMARY:Frontiers in Women's Nutrition: Agenda for Research and Action
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 8\, Parul Christian\, DrPH\, MSc\, will present Frontiers in Women’s Nutrition: Agenda for Research and Action as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nParul Christian leads the Women’s Nutrition portfolio as Senior Program Officer on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Nutrition Program Team in Global Development. She is also Professor of International Health and Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Christian’s nutrition research has contributed policy relevant knowledge related to the impact of maternal and infant/child nutrition interventions in improving pregnancy-related outcomes\, including fetal growth\, maternal and infant health and survival\, child growth\, as well as long-term outcomes of child cognition\, and cardiometabolic risk. \nChristian is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Margaret E. Bentley. Bentley is the Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Nutrition\, Associate Dean for Global Health\, and Associate Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nFriday\, Feb 8\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nWomen and girls hold roles in their communities that make them drivers of development as individuals\, and influencers of the health and well-being of their families. To equip women and girls to succeed in school\, maximize work productivity and have their own healthy children in the future\, they must receive the appropriate nutrition right from the start. In this way\, well-nourished girls and women can achieve their potential and meaningfully contribute to their communities. Globally\, about 23 million children are born small-for-gestational age (SGA)\, 15 million are preterm birth\, and around 160 million children are stunted by the end of the first two years of life. Maternal underweight\, short stature\, inadequate pregnancy weight gain\, and micronutrient deficiencies contribute to the high burden of SGA\, which is associated with an increased risk of infant mortality\, childhood stunting\, and poor neurodevelopment. Efficacious nutritional interventions during pregnancy include supplementation with balanced energy-protein\, iron-folic acid\, and multiple micronutrients. However\, constraints exist in the availability of nutritious food products that can be used for supplementing women\, requiring more research on product development. More research is also needed to fully combat the problem of adverse pregnancy outcomes of preterm birth\, pre-eclampsia (PE)\, and stillbirth. For example\, low dose calcium may work to reduce the risk of PE\, which is currently hard to implement in large scale programs due to cost and adherence barriers. Risk factors such as maternal young age\, prepregnancy underweight and stunting\, and prevention \n/treatment of maternal infections require new and multi-pronged strategies in adolescence and preconception; addressing these in part may alleviate a significant burden of fetal growth failure and preterm birth. Data show that growth failure in the first 6 months of life is high in part related to small birth size\, but maternal nutritional support during lactation may also be important. Thus\, there is an overwhelming need to combine implementation learning with new research to impact the nutritional wellbeing of pregnant and lactating women\, women of reproductive age\, and young girls – a neglected agenda in low and middle income settings. The talk will highlight the priorities and new frontiers in women’s nutrition. \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n    Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/frontiers-in-womens-nutrition-agenda-for-research-and-action/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T120000
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SUMMARY:Research Methods Seminar: An Overview of Autoregressive\, Latent Growth Curve\, and ALT Models for Longitudinal Data
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 15\, Kenneth Bollen\, PhD\, will present An Overview of Autoregressive\, Latent Growth Curve\, and ALT Models for Longitudinal Data: CPC Research Methods Seminar as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nProfessor Bollen is the Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor\, Psychology & Neuroscience and Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on developing statistical methodology with applications across a range of population and health areas. His expertise on latent variable structural equation models provides a means to control for measurement error when testing hypotheses. As a statistical consultant for CPC\, Bollen provides statistical advice for many CPC Fellows and students. \nFriday\, Feb 15\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nA wide variety of models are applied to analyze longitudinal data.  This seminar provides an overview of three popular ones: the latent growth curve (LGC)\, the autoregressive (AR)\, and the autoregressive latent trajectory (ALT) longitudinal models.  The seminar presents each model and discusses their parameters and interpretation.  I use an empirical example to illustrate each model and how to program them using structural equation modeling software.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/research-methods-seminar-an-overview-of-autoregressive-latent-growth-curve-and-alt-models-for-longitudinal-data/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T130000
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SUMMARY:Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 22\, Colter Mitchell\, PhD will present Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nMitchell is Research Assistant Professor of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and is a Faculty Associate of the University of Michigan Population Studies Center. \nMitchell is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Guang Guo. Guo is Dr. George and Alice Welsh Distinguished Professor of Sociology. Guo is a CPC Training Program Alum: he was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1991-1993. \nProfessor Mitchell is part of an NIH initiative to explore social epigenomics related to health disparities. \nFriday\, Feb 22\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nMeasures of social disadvantage such as poverty\, parental incarceration\, and family instability have well documented health and behavioral consequences for children\, which can even reach into adulthood. Social disadvantage likely operates through both social and biological mechanisms; however\, only in the last decade and a half have we seen a rapid increase in the integration of social science and biology. I investigate biological correlates of social disadvantage using the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study (n=4898)\, a population-based sample of children born in hospitals in 20 cities in the US. Families have been studied at birth and ages 1\,3\,5\,9\, and 15\, with additions of genetic\, epigenetic\, and neuroimaging data collected more recently. Due to the study design the sample is racially and ethnically diverse and has lower SES levels than most large national studies— making it exceptionally rare within biosocial research. Of particular interest here are the correlations with genomic (polygenic scores\, and changes in epigenetic profiles and telomere length) and functional and structural neuroimaging measures with the effect of cumulative disadvantage and timing of social disadvantage.   \nResearch project: “Epigenetic Mediation of Adverse Social Context on Stress Response\, Socioemotional Development\, and Health in a Population-based Study of Minority and Low SES Children and Adolescents” \nSelected publications
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/biological-mediators-and-moderators-of-social-disadvantage/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190301T120000
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SUMMARY:Did We Botch the Notch? Investigating the Social Security Notch Literature and Use of the Health and Retirement Study
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 1\, Jeremy Moulton\, PhD\, will present Did We Botch the Notch? Investigating the Social Security Notch Literature and Use of the Health and Retirement Study as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nMoulton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research investigates the intended and unintended consequences of public policy on labor supply\, consumption\, retirement\, self-employment\, real estate\, and the intergenerational transmission of wealth and education. \nMoulton is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow and Center Director Elizabeth Frankenberg. Frankenberg\, Professor of Sociology\, has served as the Director of Carolina Population Center since 2017. \nFriday\, Mar 1\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nThe Social Security Amendments of 1972 and 1977\, often referred to as the “Social Security Notch\,” have been exploited as a natural experiment by researchers across numerous literatures to estimate causal relationships between income and an array of different outcomes. In this paper\, we investigate whether a demographic or sampling shift potentially confounds results from Notch papers that use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)\, a popular data source for many of these studies. Specifically\, we find a large discontinuous shift in the proportion of non-white respondents in the HRS starting with the 1917 birth cohort (i.e.\, those adversely affected by the Social Security Amendments)\, which we conclude is due to sampling problems in the HRS. To determine whether this confounds key results in the literature\, we replicate three papers with different empirical approaches that used the HRS in their analysis of the Social Security Notch (Moulton\, 2017; Goda et al\, 2010; and Moran and Simon\, 2006) and test the extent to which the results hold after accounting for the sampling issue. Overall\, the results imply that the Social Security Notch literature and other work using the HRS data should carefully consider this issue.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/did-we-botch-the-notch-investigating-the-social-security-notch-literature-and-use-of-the-health-and-retirement-study/
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SUMMARY:Labor Supply and a Temporary Reprieve from Deportation: Evidence from the DACA Program
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 22\, Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba\, PhD\, will present Labor Supply and a Temporary Reprieve from Deportation: Evidence from the DACA Program as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nRubalcaba is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. His areas of interests broadly include health and labor economics. Specifically\, he has explored the health and labor market outcomes among underrepresented and disadvantaged communities\, while developing new empirical techniques to investigate the economic mechanisms and public policies driving these outcomes. \nRubalcaba is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa. Handa is the Lawrence I. Gilbert Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nFriday\, Mar 22\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nApproximately 800\,000 unauthorized immigrants have participated in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program\, receiving deportation deferment and work eligibility. This paper investigates the impact of the DACA program on the labor supply of unauthorized immigrant youth\, with a focus on the gender disparities in the labor market. We leverage an imputed immigration status as a mechanism for identification in a triple-differences model. Our results reveal DACA increased labor force participation by 3 to 4 percentage points among immigrant youth\, which is primarily attributable to women with previous employment experience. The change in labor force participation among DACA eligible women is estimated to be approximately 3 percentage points greater than the estimated change in labor force participation among DACA eligible men\, or approximately 27\,000 women. The results presented throughout the analysis suggests DACA played a role in contracting the glaring gender disparity\, measured in terms of labor force participation\, among the unauthorized immigrant population. This study provides a unique insight into the relationship between immigration policy and labor supply behavior at the intersection of immigration status and gender.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/labor-supply-and-a-temporary-reprieve-from-deportation-evidence-from-the-daca-program/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T120000
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SUMMARY:Biomarker Expert Panel
DESCRIPTION:This panel will focus on challenges and opportunities related to inclusion of biomarkers in large population surveys\, addressing: \n    What are the most informative\, cutting edge methods and markers for use in population research? (Whole blood by venipuncture\, dried blood spots\, urine\, feces\, other tissues for analysis of the microbiome\, metabolomics\, disease and nutrient markers\, and quantification of the exposome). \n    What informs decisions around inclusion of biomarkers in study protocols?\n        Feasibility: What is field-friendly?\n        Cost\n        Respondent burden\n        Establishing collaborations with lab science experts \n    Ethics:  what are responsibilities around return of results? \nThis panel includes principal investigators of large population based studies with experience in measurement of biomarkers. \nLinda Adair:  The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey; ECHO\nKathleen Harris:  The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health\nElizabeth Frankenberg:  The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS)\, the Work and Iron Status Evaluation (WISE)\, the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) and the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS).\nKatie Meyer: Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA)
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/biomarker-expert-panel/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T120000
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SUMMARY:Attainment Goals\, Attainment Gaps: Understanding North Carolina’s Education Pipeline
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 5\, Rebecca Tippett\, PhD\, will present Attainment Goals\, Attainment Gaps: Understanding North Carolina’s Education Pipeline as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nTippett is the Director of Carolina Demography. Located within the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill\, Carolina Demography helps North Carolina’s leaders make sense of population-level changes throughout the state. Offering a full array of demographic data and research consulting services\, Carolina Demography draws on the Center’s global expertise and 50+ years’ experience in population research. The work of their outstanding community of scholars informs decision making\, planning\, and program evaluation for businesses\, foundations\, government agencies\, schools\, and not-for-profit organizations who need to better understand their communities and environments. For more information\, please visit https://demography.cpc.unc.edu.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/attainment-goals-attainment-gaps-understanding-north-carolinas-education-pipeline/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T120000
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SUMMARY:Monitoring Health Progress: From Global Estimates to Local Health Data
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 26\, Ties Boerma\, PhD\, will present Monitoring Health Progress: From Global Estimates to Local Health Data as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nBoerma is Professor and Canada Research Chair for Population and Global Health at the Centre for Global Public Health\, Department of Community Health Sciences\, University of Manitoba\, Canada\, and Director of the Countdown to 2030 for Reproductive\, Maternal\, Newborn\, Child and Adolescent Health. He has over 30 years of experience working in global public health and research programs\, including 10 years at national and districts levels in Africa. Boerma served as Director of the Evaluation project\, precursor to today’s MEASURE Evaluation\, while holding an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has directed the World Health Organization’s work on health information and evidence for 12 years\, and has worked for bilateral donors\, national governments and research institutions\, and published extensively on AIDS\, maternal and child health\, health information systems and statistics in epidemiological\, demographic\, and public health journals.  A national of the Netherlands\, he received his medical degree from the University of Groningen\, and a PhD in Medical Demography from the University of Amsterdam. \nBoerma is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Sharon Weir. Weir is a Research Assistant Professor\, Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Weir has collaborated with UNAIDS and the World Health Organization since 2009\, co-chairing a working group to develop operational guidelines for monitoring and evaluation of HIV prevention and treatment programs for people who inject drugs\, sex workers\, men who have sex with men and transgender people
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/monitoring-health-progress-from-global-estimates-to-local-health-data-2/
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