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SUMMARY:2019 Hettleman Talks: Kavita Singh Ongechi
DESCRIPTION:Attend these TEDX-style presentations from the four winners of the annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement\, given to researchers conducting innovative work in their fields. \nThe late Phillip Hettleman\, a member of the UNC class of 1921\, and his wife Ruth established the prestigious award in 1986 in order to recognize the achievements of outstanding junior faculty. \nThis year’s Hettleman Prize awardees are: Uffe Bergeton\, associate professor in the Asian studies department within the College of Arts & Sciences; Kavita Singh Ongechi\, associate professor in the maternal and child health department within the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center; and from the School of Medicine\, Li Qian\, associate professor in the pathology and laboratory medicine department\, and Greg Wang\, associate professor in the biochemistry and biophysics department. \nSingh (Ongechi) ‘s work is focused on exploring the role of social factors (education\, poverty\, stigma\, and gender equality) in addition to the role of specific interventions and environmental factors on health outcomes. Much of her work is also focused on reaching the poorest and most vulnerable populations with interventions and evaluating national efforts to improve maternal and child health. \nFind out more about this years winners here. \nClick here to register for the event\, however\, registration is not required.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/2019-hettleman-talks-kavita-singh-ongechi/
LOCATION:Carolina Club\, George Watts Hill Alumni Center\, 106 Stadium Drive\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aging
ORGANIZER;CN="Bridget Riordan":MAILTO:briordan@unc.edu
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SUMMARY:Chris Wiesen: Power Estimation for Hypothesis Tests Commonly Used in Social Science
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, November 1\, Chris Wiesen will present “Power Estimation for Hypothesis Tests Commonly Used in Social Science.” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nStreaming information: Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/354372015 \nChris Wiesen earned a M.S.Ed at the University of Pennsylvania (1988) and an M.A. (1992) and a Ph.D. (1994) at UNC. Before coming to the Odum Institute\, Wiesen spent one year with the National Institute of Statistical Sciences\, two years visiting Duke University and three years at Research Triangle Institute (now Research Triangle International). Along with offering consulting services to graduate students and faculty in the UNC system\, he teaches short courses on various software packages including SAS and SUDANN and topics on quantitative analysis. Wiesen teaches the required CPSM course: Survey Sampling. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar. Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/chris-wiesen-power-estimation-for-hypothesis-tests-commonly-used-in-social-science/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Jennie Brand: Uncovering Treatment Effect Heterogeneity using Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 25\, Jennie Brand will present “Uncovering Treatment Effect Heterogeneity using Machine Learning” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nStreaming information: Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/889917518 \nJennie E. Brand is Professor of Sociology and Statistics at UCLA. \nShe is also Director of the California Center for Population Research and Co-Director of the Center for Social Statistics (CSS). Prof. Brand studies social stratification and inequality\, and its implications for various outcomes that indicate life chances. Her research agenda encompasses three main areas: (1) access to and the impact of higher education; (2) the consequences of disruptive events\, such as job displacement; and (3) causal inference and quantitative methods for panel data. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar. Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/jennie-brand-uncovering-treatment-effect-heterogeneity-using-machine-learning/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Martin: Engaging Family Members to Support Maternal and Child Nutrition
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, September 20\, Stephanie Martin will present “Engaging Family Members to Support Maternal and Child Nutrition” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nStreaming information: Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/807016500 \nStephanie Martin is an assistant professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with more than 15 years’ experience designing and implementing behavioral interventions in low-income countries. Dr. Martin’s research focuses on the evaluation of behavioral interventions to improve maternal and child nutrition\, implementation research to facilitate the translation of global recommendations into effective programs\, and mixed-methods research to examine barriers and facilitators to infant and young child care and feeding practices.She is particularly interested in behavioral interventions to increase social support\, and is currently examining family members’ experiences supporting women for improved maternal and child nutrition in Kenya and Tanzania. As a global health practitioner\, Dr. Martin implemented policy-\, facility- and community-level programs\, and developed dozens of training and communication materials to promote maternal\, child and adolescent health and nutrition\, as well as HIV prevention\, care and treatment. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/engaging-family-members-to-support-maternal-and-child-nutrition-stephanie-martin-assistant-professor-of-nutrition-university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T120000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Faul: Where Do We Go from Here? Incorporating Genetics into Social Science and Health Research in the GWAS Era
DESCRIPTION:On 9/13/2019\, Jessica Faul will present “Where Do We Go from Here? Incorporating Genetics into Social Science and Health Research in the GWAS Era” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nDr. Faul studies health and cognitive functioning\, health disparities\, and the integration of genetic and social science data in health research. She has worked with HRS core and restricted data files\, examining genetic\, gene-environment\, and socioeconomic determinants of health and using longitudinal modeling and time-varying predictors of health outcomes. \nSeminar abstract:  \nThere has been a significant increase in the number of population-based and social-science surveys adding genetic data over the last decade. This has dramatically expanded the reach of these studies by making rich phenotypic data of interest to researchers from a wide variety of disciplines in the biological and health sciences. The expansion of population-based phenotypic\, environmental and genomic data\, plus the growing interest in integrating the behavioral and social sciences with biology\, has the incredible potential for cutting edge science. Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genes with significant and replicated evidence of association with cognitive and physical function measures\, longevity\, obesity\, health behaviors\, and educational attainment\, to name a few; however\, the size of the genetic effects found to date\, while increasing\, explain only a fraction of trait variability.  So where do we go next? This talk will focus on what we’ve learned from the GWAS era\, provide research-based examples of theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches for integrating social and genomic data that move beyond GWAS\, and will conclude with a discussion of what hurdles remain and what the future may hold for genetic research in a social science context including a discussion of issues related to biological data collection in a field setting. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/jessica-faul-where-do-we-go-from-here-incorporating-genetics-into-social-science-and-health-research-in-the-gwas-era/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190906T120000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Teresa Seeman: Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens
DESCRIPTION:Due to Hurricane Dorian\, this week’s interdisciplinary research seminar series lecture has been canceled. Please visit https://www.cpc.unc.edu/events/2019-2020-interdisciplinary-research-seminars for the latest news about the 2019-2020 seminar series.\nOn Friday\, September 6\, Teresa Seeman will present “Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nTeresa Seeman\, PhD\, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health and of Medicine in the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Trained as an epidemiologist\, with post-doctoral training in neuroendocrinology\, her research interests are inter-disciplinary\, focusing on role of social and psychological factors in health and aging\, with particular interest in elucidating the biological pathways through which such factors impact on health. Working in both community- and laboratory-based contexts\, her work has documented the widespread health effects of protective social factors (e.g.\, social relationships) and psychological characteristics (e.g.\, control beliefs\, perceptions of self-efficacy)\, including effects on risks for physical and cognitive decline as well as overall longevity.  Her research has also contributed to our understanding of how these social and psychological influences are mediated through multiple major biological regulatory systems. She has been a leader in empirical research on a multi-systems view of biological risk – allostatic load. Her work has shown that levels of allostatic load predict subsequent health outcomes\, and that differences in allostatic load are related to social factors\, including levels of social integration and support as well as more traditional measures of socio-economic status [SES]:  higher allostatic load seen among those reporting less social integration and/or support and lower SES.  Her current research is focused on developing more integrated models that incorporate consideration of life-course experiences with stressful and protective conditions and the cumulative impacts of these experiences on major biological regulatory systems that determine trajectories of health and longevity. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar. Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/canceled-teresa-seeman-aging-trajectories-through-biopsychosocial-lens/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190830T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190830T130000
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SUMMARY:Ryan Masters: Trends in Drug Availability\, Economic Distress\, and Drug-related Mortality among U.S. Whites
DESCRIPTION:On August 30\, 2019\, Ryan Masters will present “Trends in Drug Availability\, Economic Distress\, and Drug-related Mortality among U.S. Whites” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nRyan Masters is a social demographer by training with interests in examining long-term trends in US morbidity\, chronic diseases\, and mortality rates. \nThe Carolina Population Center hosts a weekly Friday lecture on a topic that enhances our understanding of population-related changes. The 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will feature talks related to aging trajectories\, health behavior\, the Zika virus\, and the beverage tax – among other topics. \nAll seminars are held from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002 at 123 W. Franklin St. unless otherwise indicated. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar. Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/ryan-masters-trends-in-drug-availability-economic-distress-and-drug-related-mortality-among-u-s-whites/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190429T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190429T163000
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SUMMARY:Work\, Family and Health: Understanding Diverging Trends in Life Expectancy
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 29th\, Lisa Berkman\, PhD\, will present Work\, Family and Health: Understanding Diverging Trends in Life Expectancy as part of the J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture series at Carolina Population Center.\nBerkman is the Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies\, the Director of Harvard’s PhD program in Population Health Sciences\, and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy\, Epidemiology\, and Global Health and Population. She is the principal investigator of the Health and Aging Study in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI)\, funded by the National Institute on Aging. She recently served as co-PI on the Work\, Family & Health Network\, a study on workplace practices and employee and family health. \nThis presentation is part of the J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture series. Dick Udry’s research was highly innovative and interdisciplinary—features that he embedded in the Carolina Population Center’s practices and culture as its Director. In recognition of his enduring contributions\, CPC named its distinguished lecture series in his honor. Previous presenters have included Dr. Douglas Massey\, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University (2018) and Dr. John Bongaarts\, Vice President and Distinguished Scholar of the Population Council (2017).
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/work-family-and-health-understanding-diverging-trends-in-life-expectancy/
CATEGORIES:Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
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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:20181026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181026T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
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SUMMARY:Hypothesizing Upward: Have U.S. State Policies Widened Inequalities in Life Expectancy?
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 26th\, Jennifer Karas Montez\, PhD\, will present Hypothesizing Upward: Have U.S. State Policies Widened Inequalities in Life Expectancy? as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Montez is a Professor of Sociology\, the Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar of Aging Studies\, and Co-Director of the Policy\, Place\, and Population Health Lab at Syracuse University. Her work examines the large and growing inequalities in U.S. adult mortality since the early 1980s. She is particularly interested in why trends in mortality have been most troubling for women\, low-educated adults\, and states in the South and Midwest.\nProfessor Montez is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Robert (Bob) Hummer. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also co-PI of the Biosocial Training Program at the Carolina Population Center. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nIn the United States\, life expectancy is increasingly being shaped by where we live and how much schooling we have completed. Why? Most speculation has focused on “micro-level” explanations\, such as individuals’ personal choices and lifestyle behaviors. This presentation will discuss the importance of macro-level explanations\, particularly U.S. state policies. Weaving together results from several recent and ongoing studies\, this presentation will build the case that the diverging policy contexts of U.S. states—resulting from decades of deregulation\, devolution of political authority from federal to state levels\, and state preemption laws—have likely played a critical role in the widening inequalities in life expectancy. \nCurriculum Vita (PDF) \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.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/hypothesizing-upward-have-u-s-state-policies-widened-inequalities-in-life-expectancy/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180928T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
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SUMMARY:Social Gradients in Gene Regulation in Nonhuman Primates
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, September 28th\, Jenny Tung\, PhD\, will present Social Gradients in Gene Regulation in Nonhuman Primates as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nTung is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology at Duke University. She is also a Faculty Research Scholar with Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI). Dr. Tung is a participating faculty member with the Carolina Population Center’s Biosocial Training Program. \nTung is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Allison Aiello. Aiello is a Professor of Epidemiology and the Program Leader of Social Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Aiello is PI for the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study (DHNS)\, the “Niños study\,” and the Infectious Links between Psychosocial Stress and Aging Study. She is also Program Director and Co-PI for the Biosocial Training Program at CPC. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nIn social species\, including our own\, interactions with other members of the same species powerfully shape the environment that animals face each day. These interactions mediate the evolutionary costs and benefits of group living\, and also contribute to social gradients in health. Here\, I will present our recent research on the impact of social interactions at the molecular and organismal levels. Using a five-decade data set from wild baboons in Kenya\, we demonstrate that social adversity in early life combines with ecological pressures to profoundly shape individual survival. Meanwhile\, in captive rhesus macaques\, we show that social status causally alters immune function\, including the response to infection. Finally\, by taking advantage of data sets from both species\, we show that social status is consistently linked to variation in the regulation of innate immunity and inflammation-related genes. However\, the strength and direction of these associations depend on sex\, cellular environment\, and the nature of the social hierarchy in which they arise. \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.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/social-gradients-in-gene-regulation-in-nonhuman-primates/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage
DESCRIPTION:This seminar has been cancelled due to weather. \nOn Friday\, September 14\, 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\, Sept. 14\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 \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.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/canceled-biological-mediators-and-moderators-of-social-disadvantage/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Planning Racial Inequality
DESCRIPTION:Allan M. Parnell\, Ph.D.\, Vice President\, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities \nAllan M. Parnell\, Ph.D.\, is Vice President of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities and a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  For the last decade\, Dr. Parnell has served as an expert witness in civil rights and fair housing cases across the country\, including Jerry R. Kennedy\, et al.\, v. The City of Zanesville\, et al.\, BBC Baymeadows\, LLC v. City of Ridgeland\, and Inclusive Communities Project v. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs\, the 2015 Supreme Court decision upholding the use of disparate impact evidence in fair housing litigation.  \nDr. Parnell received his A.B with Honors in Geography\, his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology\, all from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Prior to his current positions\, Dr. Parnell was a Visiting Research Associate at the East-West Population Institute in Honolulu\, a Research Associate for the Committee on Population at the National Academy of Sciences\, and a member of the sociology faculty at Duke University.  He has been the Principal Investigator on grants from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development.  Dr. Parnell can be contacted at allanmparnell@gmail.com and at 919 563 5899.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/planning-racial-inequality/
CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
CREATED:20200103T135042Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
CREATED:20200103T135058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145201Z
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SUMMARY:Race\, Nativity\, Aging & Health: Critical Demography and Life Course Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Tyson Brown\, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Director of the Center for Biobehavioral Health Disparities Research\, Duke University \nDr. Brown is an assistant professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Biobehavioral Health Disparities Research at Duke University. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—where he was also a trainee at the CPC—prior to completing a NIH/NIA postdoctoral fellowship at Duke. Brown’s research draws on life course perspectives and panel data to understand racial inequalities in health and wealth trajectories in middle and late life. He also studies how racial inequalities are gendered and classed\, and the extent to which socio-environmental and psychosocial mechanisms across the life course explain within- and between-group inequalities. His research and training have been supported by funding from the NIH and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/race-nativity-aging-health-critical-demography-and-life-course-perspectives/
CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
CREATED:20200103T135055Z
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SUMMARY:The CPC legacy: integration of biological and social perspectives on health
DESCRIPTION:Linda Adair\, PhD\nThe value of multidisciplinary and longitudinal approaches to maternal and child health\nLinda Adair’s research focus has a strong life-course focus\, spanning from explorations of determinants of birth outcomes\, to infant feeding and child growth patterns to multidimensional pathways to healthy aging in adults.  Her work has taken her from the Philippines (where she leads the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey)\, and China for the study of the emergence of cardiometabolic disease risk\, to South Africa\, Malawi\, and Rwanda\, where her work is focused on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. \nPenny Gordon-Larsen\, PhD\nLinking Environment\, Biology\, Behavior to Cardiometabolic Disease in Population Research\nPenny Gordon-Larsen\, PhD\, is professor and associate chair for research in the department of nutrition at UNC. For over 20 years her work has focused on obesity and its cardiometabolic disease complications\, spanning genetics and the gut microbiome to behavior to environmental research. At the core of this work is the focus on the interplay between environment\, biology\, behavior and disease in relation to global population health. \nKathleen Mullan Harris\, PhD\nSocial\, Behavioral\, and Biological Linkages in Health across the Life Course\nKathleen Mullan Harris is the James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at UNC.  Her research focuses on social inequality and health with particular interests in family\, the transition to adulthood\, and social policy.  She leads an integrative research program in Add Health to understand the social\, environmental\, behavioral\, biological and genetic linkages in social stratification pathways that lead to health disparities across the life course. \nBarry M. Popkin\, PhD\nAn Economist’s Foray into Global Nutrition and related biomedical areas\nBarry M. Popkin\, PhD\, is the W. R. Kenan\, Jr. distinguished professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).  While initially his research work focused on the economics of women’s work and how time constraints were linked with major household health concerns\, his long-term interests have focused on  the study of the dynamic shifts in our environment as they affect dietary intake and physical activity patterns and trends and obesity and other nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases –all from a more social science economics perspective.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/the-cpc-legacy-integration-of-biological-and-social-perspectives-on-health/
CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
CREATED:20200103T135055Z
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SUMMARY:Quantification of Biological Aging
DESCRIPTION:Dan Belsky\nAssistant Professor of Medicine\, Duke University\nJacobs Foundation Research Fellow \nDan is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and the Social Science Research Institute and Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow (2016-2018). Dan works at the intersection of genetics\, the social and behavioral sciences\, and public health. His work brings together discoveries from the cutting edge of genome science and longitudinal data from population-based cohorts to identify mechanisms that cause accelerated health decline in older age. Dan’s work takes a life-span approach that encompasses research on cohorts of children\, young and middle-aged adults\, and older adults. His goal is is to understand why socioeconomically disadvantaged populations suffer increased morbidity in older age and earlier mortality\, and to devise strategies for intervention to mitigate these health inequalities.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/quantification-of-biological-aging/
CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
CREATED:20200103T135104Z
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SUMMARY:CPC Research Methods Series: Stories and Themes: A Framework for Qualitative Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Clare Barrington \nAssistant Professor of Health behavior; and  CPC Faculty Fellow \nBarrington’s research examines social and structural influences on health and health behaviors\, with a focus on HIV prevention and health care among female sex workers\, 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. In collaboration with the Centro de Orientacion e Investigacion Integral (COIN)\, she studied the social networks of male clients of female sex workers. Results from this study contributed to the growing literature on normative influences on sexual behavior within social networks and were also used in developing a pilot HIV prevention intervention aimed at male clients in the Dominican Republic (funded by the USAID/Academy for Educational Development). Most recently\, with support from USAID\, Barrington has been studying a cohort of 250 female sex workers living with HIV in Santo Domingo and their male partners. The aim is to improve understanding of the factors influencing their achievement of optimal HIV outcomes and to assess feasibility and initial effects of a multi-level intervention called Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors). In Guatemala\, she has collaborated with researchers from the Universidad del Valle (UVG) and the Centers for Disease control to examine and compare social networks among gay identifying and non-gay identifying MSM and transgender women. She is currently working with UVG to implement two PEPFAR-funded implementation science projects to pilot the use of social networks to promote HIV testing among MSM in Guatemala City and to evaluate a multi-level intervention for MSM living with HIV. In North Carolina\, Barrington has been studying the intersection between social networks\, migration and HIV among Mexican migrants. She currently leads the qualitative formative research and evaluation of a HRSA project to promote early detection and linkage to care for HIV among Mexican MSM and transgender women in North Carolina. Finally\, Barrington is the qualitative researcher on several mixed-methods projects including a NIDA-funded longitudinal study of relationship disruption during incarceration and HIV risk among African American men in North Carolina\, a quality improvement strategy to improve maternal and child health in Ghana\, and an impact evaluation of cash transfer program in Malawi. \nBarrington will continue to conduct mixed-methods research to improve understanding of the long-term experiences of people living with HIV in Latin America and Latinos in North Carolina. In the Dominican Republic her goal is to continue research with the Abriendo Puertas cohort to examine the role of substance use in HIV care and treatment among female sex workers living with HIV. She also has a grant pending to the adapt Abriendo Puertas for MSM. She is also interested in exploring how to improve employment opportunities for FSW\, MSM and transgender women who are living with HIV in the Dominican Republic\, Guatemala\, and North Carolina as this has emerged as key structural determinant to positive HIV outcomes across settings. With her work with Latinos in North Carolina she aims to identify strategies to overcome the challenges of geographic dispersion and social isolation for engaging with Latinos living with HIV. She is also developing a new line of research focused on chronic disease in Latin America. She will conduct formative research in collaboration with two rural diabetes clinics to examine the epidemiological transition from the perspective of community health workers and explore social determinants of diabetes in these communities.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/cpc-research-methods-series-stories-and-themes-a-framework-for-qualitative-analysis/
CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140926T130000
DTSTAMP:20260605T095324
CREATED:20200103T135120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145201Z
UID:35884-1411732800-1411736400@www.cpc.unc.edu
SUMMARY:Economic Boom\, Population Aging\, and Policy Shift: What’s Ahead for China?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Yong Cai\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow\, Carolina Population Center
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/economic-boom-population-aging-and-policy-shift-whats-ahead-for-china/
CATEGORIES:2014-15 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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