BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Carolina Population Center - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Carolina Population Center 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:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD 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:20180928T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180928T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 CREATED:20200102T153536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145236Z UID:35778-1538136000-1538139600@www.cpc.unc.edu 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 CREATED:20200102T153535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145301Z UID:35776-1536926400-1536930000@www.cpc.unc.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180323T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180323T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 CREATED:20200103T135048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145235Z UID:35822-1521806400-1521810000@www.cpc.unc.edu 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 CREATED:20200103T135058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145201Z UID:35843-1490356800-1490360400@www.cpc.unc.edu 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 CREATED:20200103T135055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145235Z UID:35837-1484308800-1484312400@www.cpc.unc.edu 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 CREATED:20200103T135055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145201Z UID:35836-1480680000-1480683600@www.cpc.unc.edu 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151030T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 CREATED:20200103T135104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145235Z UID:35853-1446206400-1446210000@www.cpc.unc.edu 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2015-16 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140926T130000 DTSTAMP:20260605T111312 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/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:2014-15 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR