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: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:20180223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135047Z UID:35820-1519387200-1519390800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Gender\, Sexuality\, Stigma and Population Health DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kerith Conron\, Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute\, UCLA \nKerith Conron is the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute. She is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist whose work focuses on documenting and reducing health inequities that impact sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ) populations. Dr. Conron is committed to altering the landscape of adversity and opportunity for the most marginalized LGBTQ communities through collaborative activities that impact the social determinants of health. She is co-PI of the newly funded (NICHD/NIHMD) Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity\, Socioeconomic Status\, and Health across the Life Course study and previously has been supported by NIMHD to conduct community-based participatory research with LGBTQ youth of color and their parents and by NICHD to train scholars in LGBTQ population health research. She has been active in LGBT health for over 15 years – serving on the first Steering Committee of the National Coalition for LGBT Health and as the first coordinator of the Office of LGBT Health for the City of Boston. Dr. Conron earned her doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health and MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health. Her publications appear in the American Journal of Public Health\, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine\, and Psychological Medicine. Her expertise and commentary have been featured by major media outlets including the New York Times\, the Associated Press\, and National Public Radio. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/gender-sexuality-stigma-and-population-health/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135046Z UID:35819-1518782400-1518786000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Are CPCers Overweight(ing)? DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kenneth A Bollen\, Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor\, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Department of Sociology\, UNC at Chapel Hill \nKenneth A. Bollen is Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Department of Sociology. He is the head of the Methods Core and a Fellow at the Carolina Population Center at UNC. From 2000 to 2010\, he was the Director of the H.W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC. Bollen’s current research is on the development of statistical methodology for the social and behavioral sciences with applications in population and health studies. He has published over 140 papers and is the author of Structural Equations with Latent Variables (Wiley)\, coauthor of Latent Curve Models: A Structural Equation Perspective (Wiley)\, and coeditor of Testing Structural Equation Models (Sage). Google scholar lists over 84\,000 citations to these works (http://goo.gl/Dpa2X). \nBollen is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Statistical Association. He is Chair of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advisory Committee for the Directorate of the Social\, Economic\, and Behavioral Sciences. He is President of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and past Chair of the Social\, Economic\, and Political Sciences Section K of the AAAS. He also served on the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. In 2000 he won the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions in the Field of Sociological Methodology. Recently\, Harvard University\, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna (Bologna\, Italy)\, and RTI International hosted him as a Visiting Scholar. \nBollen received his B.A. from Drew University (1973) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University (1975\, 1977). He was a Research Scientist at General Motors Research Labs (1977-1982) and an assistant professor at Dartmouth College (1982-1985) prior to joining UNC (1985). The National Science Foundation\, the National Institutes of Health\, USAID\, and other organizations have funded his research. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/are-cpcers-overweighting/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135046Z UID:35818-1518177600-1518181200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Surviving the Epidemic: Families and Well-Being\, Malawi 1998—2013 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hans-Peter Kohler\, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography\, University of Pennsylvania \nAbstract \nAcross Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA)\, a remarkable cohort is reaching middle and older ages: those who have survived the AIDS epidemic. Nobody could escape an epidemic that was devastating for both its health and social implications. Were the survivors of this cohort just lucky? Or did they systematically differ in critical characteristics? What promoted survival and resilience in such a terrible context\, and what influenced well-being among the survivors and their families? And for all of these questions\, did the epidemic cause persistent divergences in families’ well-being because misery reinforced itself? These and related questions about “Surviving the Epidemic” (STE) are being studied by exploiting an unusually rich data source: the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) cohort\, 1998—2013. \nSpeaker’s Bio \nHans-Peter Kohler\, Ph.D.\, is a social and economic demographer whose current research focuses on health\, demography and social change in developing and developed countries. A key characteristic of his research is the attempt to integrate demographic\, economic\, sociological and biological approaches in empirical and theoretical models of health and demographic behaviors. In his prior work\, he investigated the role of social and sexual networks for HIV risk perceptions and HIV infection risks\, the causal effects of education on health\, the consequences of learning one’s HIV status on risky behaviors\, the interrelations between marriage and sexual relations in developing countries\, the role of social interaction processes for fertility and AIDS-related behaviors\, and the determinants and consequences of low fertility in developed countries. His research combines extensive knowledge about the determinants of health\, fertility/mortality\, HIV/AIDS\, and related economic behaviors in developing and developed countries with considerable experience in sophisticated econometric and demographic analyses\, including analyses with controls for endowment and unobserved determinants of individuals’ behaviors\, models of population and disease dynamics\, randomized designs and integration of social science and biomedical research methods. He has extensive experience in the design and implementation of large-scale data collection in sub-Saharan contexts. He has been awarded the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Early Career Achievement by the Population Association of America for my interdisciplinary work on fertility and health\, and have been honored with Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography by the American Sociological Association. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Science\, served as the president of the Society of Biodemography and Social Biology\, and was engaged as lead-paper author in the Copenhagen Consensus Project to evaluate policies to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV (2011\, with Behrman)\, reduce population growth (2012)\, and the post-2015 UN Development Goals in the area of Population and Demography. He served as the Chair of Penn’s Ph.D. Program in Demography NICHD T32 Training Program for several years\, and has been the PI of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) since 2007. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/surviving-the-epidemic-families-and-well-being-malawi-1998-2013/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180202T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135045Z UID:35817-1517572800-1517576400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Stress and mental health in humanitarian crises: A biosocial approach to program evaluation with Syrian refugees DESCRIPTION:Dr. Catherine Panter-Brick\, Professor of Anthropology\, Health\, and Global Affairs; Public Health\, Yale University \nCatherine Panter-Brick is Professor of Anthropology\, Health\, and Global Affairs at Yale University\, and the Medical Anthropology Senior Editor for Social Science & Medicine. Her research addresses issues of risk and resilience in contexts of war\, displacement\, famine\, and poverty. She has directed more than forty interdisciplinary research projects in Afghanistan\, Ethiopia\, the Gambia\, Jordan\, Nepal\, Niger\, Pakistan\, Saudi Arabia\, Tanzania\, and the United Kingdom. She works to develop effective partnerships between academic scholars\, health policy-makers\, and humanitarian practitioners. For her work in humanitarian areas\, she received the Lucy Mair Medal\, awarded by the Royal Anthropology Institute of Great Britain and Ireland to honor excellence in the application of anthropology to the relief of poverty and distress and to the active recognition of human dignity. \nProfessor Panter-Brick has authored over 140 scientific publications in the biomedical\, health\, and social sciences and coedited seven books\, most recently Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (Pennsylvania Press 2015) and Pathways to Peace (MIT Press\, 2014). Initially schooled in French\, she received her MA degree in Human Sciences and her PhD in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University. She has worked with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and was based at Durham University for twenty years\, before moving to Yale University where she directs the Program on Conflict\, Resilience\, and Health and the Program on Stress and Family Resilience. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/stress-and-mental-health-in-humanitarian-crises-a-biosocial-approach-to-program-evaluation-with-syrian-refugees/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180126T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180126T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135044Z UID:35816-1516968000-1516971600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Considering the linkages between climate and health: A focus on women and children's health in sub-Saharan Africa DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kathryn Grace\, Assistant Professor of Geography\, Environment and Society\, University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities \nKathryn Grace is an Assistant Professor of Geography\, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her research is focused broadly on the areas of Population Geography\, Demography\, and Health. Professor Grace’s current research highlights the role of context in various aspects related to maternal and child health—primarily reproductive health and family planning decision-making. Her approach builds on theories found in demography and public health with the goal to bring an alternative perspective to issues related to women’s health and development. Through the use of a quantitative\, mixed-disciplinary approach\, she examines the ways individual\, family\, and household outcomes are conditioned by place\, including both the culture and the natural environment. In addition\, her work explores underlying theories of development and resource use and access\, building on her personal experiences and observations from time spent in poor countries and communities. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/considering-the-linkages-between-climate-and-health-a-focus-on-women-and-childrens-health-in-sub-saharan-africa/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180119T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180119T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135044Z UID:35815-1516363200-1516366800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELED: Beyond Discrimination: Why Vigilance Matters for Population Health DESCRIPTION:Due to the travel uncertainty associated with the recent snowfall and winter weather\, the January 19 CPC interdisciplinary seminar is cancelled. We plan to reschedule Professor Lee’s talk during fall 2018. \nDr. Hedwig Lee\, Professor of Sociology\, Washington University in St. Louis \nHedwig (Hedy) Lee is a Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her BS in Policy Analysis from Cornell University in 2003 and her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. After receiving her PhD\, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan\, School of Public Health from 2009 to 2011. She also holds a courtesy joint appointment at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Department of Sociology in Seattle. She is broadly interested in the social determinants and consequences of population health and health disparities. Her recent work examines the impact of chronic stress on health and health disparities. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/canceled-beyond-discrimination-why-vigilance-matters-for-population-health/ CATEGORIES:2017-18 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180112T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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:20260403T152704 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135100Z UID:35846-1492776000-1492779600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Population\, Health\, and Environment Transitions in the Developing World DESCRIPTION:David López-Carr\, Professor of Department of Geography\, UC Santa Barbara \nI am co-Direct of the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) Center of Expertise on Planetary Health. I am Professor of Geography at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where I direct the Human-Environment Dynamics Lab (HED) and lead the population\, health\, and environment research group for the Broom Center for Demography. I have lived\, worked\, and traveled in over 70 countries and speak Spanish\, as well as some Portuguese\, Italian\, French\, and very rudimentary Q’eqchí Maya. My research focuses on links among population\, health\, rural development\, agriculture\, and marine and forest resource use and conservation through ongoing projects in Latin America\, Africa\, and Asia. I have authored over 130 scientific publications. My research is conducted with colleagues and students thanks to several million dollars in funding from over 50 fellowships\, grants\, and awards from NASA\, NSF\, NIH\, the Mellon and Fulbright Foundations\, and numerous other sources. I am a Fellow of the NAS’ Kavli Frontiers of Science and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Before co-directing the Center for Planetary Health\, I was an associate director for the UCGHI Center of Expertise on Migration and Health and Director of UCSB’s Latin American and Iberian Studies\, where I was awarded outstanding graduate mentor. During 2015-15\, I chaired the UC Faculty Senate Committee on Affirmative Action\, Equity\, and Diversity (UCAAD) and remain on several related committees in which I have helped author various plans\, proposals and responses regarding policy as it relates to diversity and equity in higher education across the UCs. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/population-health-and-environment-transitions-in-the-developing-world/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135059Z UID:35845-1491566400-1491570000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Demographic Dynamics and Population Responses to Varying Natural Hazard Exposures Across the U.S.\, 1970-2014 DESCRIPTION:Sara Curran\, Professor of International Studies\, Professor of Public Policy & Governance & Professor of Sociology\, University of Washington \nI serve as director of the UW’s Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology. Recently and delightedly\, I was selected to join the Executive Council of UW President Ana Mari Cauce’s new Population Health Initiative. This exciting endeavor provides an outstanding opportunity to amplify UW’s substantial health research\, training\, and applications across the entire campus on behalf of local and global healthy outcomes. \nI research gender\, migration\, and environment in developing countries. Current projects include social change and migration\, climate change and migration\, and disaster disparities. I am writing a book\, Demographic Dynamics and Development Transformations in Thailand. I have authored work that appears in Demography\, Population and Development Review\, Social Science Research\, Teaching Sociology\, Journal of International Women’s Studies\, and Journal of Marriage and the Family. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/demographic-dynamics-and-population-responses-to-varying-natural-hazard-exposures-across-the-u-s-1970-2014/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135059Z UID:35844-1490961600-1490965200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Machine Learning in Population Research DESCRIPTION:Chirayath M. Suchindran\, Ph.D.\, Professor\, Biostatistics\, UNC-Chapel Hill \nSuchindran’s recent publications include a paper that demonstrates the use of mixture models with linear predictors to identify incorrect gestational age in US birth certificates\, a regression analysis of interval censored complex survey data\, an examination of the redistribution techniques to identify the errors in causes of death data\, a paper in Demography that demonstrates the use of event history data to obtain estimates of multistate life table parameters and their standard errors and a paper dealing with the appraisal of biomarker selection methods applicable to HIV/AIDS research. \nSuchindran’s current\, substantive research projects include genetic by context influence on trajectories of adolescent health risk behaviors\, effects of cash transfer and community mobilization on HIV incidence and gender norms among South African young women\, effect of neighborhood SES on coronary heart disease burden in communities and obesity development and CVD risk factor clustering in Filipino women and offspring\, and promoting safe sex among HIV+ women. \nSuchindran’s work will focus on developing methods for data analysis and conduct of collaborative research with CPC researchers that have been initiated currently. The methodological focus will be on the issues related to complex sampling designs and estimation of random effects models with specific complex survey designs with different modes of data collection\, currently being proposed to collect the Add Health Survey wave V. Suchindran will also pursue his research in developing indices of longevity based on Kullback-Leiber divergence measures that involve moments of order three and above (for example\, skewness and kurtosis). Suchindran will also join in the new initiatives in the Department of Biostatistics in developing state-of-the-art methodology for analyzing ‘big data’ (for example\, machine learning techniques for predictive modeling\, dimension reduction) with focus on demographic research. On the collaborative research side\, Suchindran will continue his involvement in several intervention studies where the data collections are about to end. Suchindran will also provide statistical help\, if necessary\, by developing methods for data analysis for CPC researchers. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/machine-learning-in-population-research/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 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/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135058Z UID:35842-1488466800-1488470400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Demographic Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Family Planning Programs DESCRIPTION:J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture \nJohn Bongaarts\, Ph.D. \nJohn Bongaarts is Vice President and Distinguished Scholar of the Population Council where he has been employed since 1973. He holds a PhD in Physiology and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Illinois and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Population Dynamics at the John’s Hopkins School of Public Health. Bongaarts’ research has focused on a range of population and health issues\, including population projections\, determinants of fertility and mortality trends\, the demographic impact of the AIDS epidemic and population policy options in both the developed and developing world. He has published over 200 papers\, chapters and books. Honors include the Robert J. Lapham Award and the Mindel Sheps Award from the Population Association of America\, and the Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences\, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences\, and is a Laureate of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/demographic-trends-in-sub-saharan-africa-the-role-of-family-planning-programs/ CATEGORIES:J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135057Z UID:35841-1487937600-1487941200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Farmer Cognitive Function and Agricultural Productivity Among Farmers in Bahia\, Brazil DESCRIPTION:Leah VanWey\, Professor of Environment and Society and Sociology\, Brown University \nLeah VanWey is a social demographer and environmental social scientist. She currently has two lines of research. One line studies population change\, socioeconomic development\, and environmental change associated with the expansion of mechanized agriculture in Brazil. The second is examining household responses to a payment for reforestation program in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil\, together with the social and environmental impacts of the program. She is committed to interdisciplinary research\, and has worked with anthropologists\, geographers\, demographers\, sociologists\, urban planners\, historians\, geoscientists and ecologists at various times. At Brown\, Professor VanWey has served as Senior Deputy Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and Associate Director of the Population Studies and Training Center. She currently serves as Associate Provost for Academic Space. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina\, where she was a trainee in the Carolina Population Center\, and has previously taught at Indiana University URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/farmer-cognitive-function-and-agricultural-productivity-among-farmers-in-bahia-brazil/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135057Z UID:35840-1487332800-1487336400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Friends\, genes\, and schools: Evidence from Add Health DESCRIPTION:Ben Domingue\, Assistant Professor\, Stanford Graduate School of Education \nBen Domingue is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He has two areas of active research. The first focuses on statewide standardized test scores and their uses\, particularly how test scores are used in statistical models that evaluate the effectiveness of teachers and schools. On a technical level\, he also is interested in the extent to which test scores and the data from which they are drawn demonstrate certain desirable properties. The second area of research focuses on the integration of genetic data into social science research. In particular\, he is interested in understanding the genetic architecture of educational attainment and the way in which schools can and do moderate the association between genes and educational attainment. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/friends-genes-and-schools-evidence-from-add-health/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135056Z UID:35839-1486728000-1486731600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Exemptions from Childhood Vaccination Requirements: A Geographic Analysis DESCRIPTION:Paul L. Delamater\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University \nDr. Paul Delamater is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University. He will be joining the Department of Geography at UNC Chapel Hill in 2017. Dr. Delamater’s research uses Geographic Information Systems and spatial/statistical analysis to better understand the geographic aspects of population health issues\, broadly focusing on health-related behavior and health care utilization. His current research examines non-medical exemptions from childhood vaccination requirements in the United States and the corresponding risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. Another active area of Dr. Delamater’s research is integrating evidence-based approaches in health care planning and regulation. He has provided scientific support to Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services in recent modifications of the state’s policies governing health care services access and availability. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/exemptions-from-childhood-vaccination-requirements-a-geographic-analysis/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170127T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135056Z UID:35838-1485518400-1485522000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Residential segregation\, political power\, and preterm birth in the U.S. 2008-2010 DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored with the Triangle Research Data Center (TRDC) \nClaire Margerison-Zilko\, Michigan State University \nClaire Margerison-Zilko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Margerison-Zilko’s research examines the relationships between macro- and individual-level social and economic factors and maternal\, infant\, and child health with a focus on understanding the determinants of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in maternal and child health. With funding from NIH/NICHD\, Dr. Margerison-Zilko is currently examining the impact of the recent Great Recession on adverse birth outcomes in the U.S. She was also recently awarded a K01 Mentored Career Development Award from NIH/NHLBI to examine links between women’s pregnancy health and later-life race and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD). Another active area of research examines the relationship between perinatal health and aspects of the residential environment such as neighborhood socioeconomic history and racial residential segregation. Dr. Margerison-Zilko has a PhD in Epidemiology an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of California\, Berkeley. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/residential-segregation-political-power-and-preterm-birth-in-the-u-s-2008-2010/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170113T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 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/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161202T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 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/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T152704 CREATED:20200103T135054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T135054Z UID:35835-1479470400-1479474000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Contraception\, a Social Vaccine: Part I DESCRIPTION:Amy TsuiProfessor\, Department of Population\, Family\, and Reproductive Health\nJohn Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health \nAmy Tsui is Professor in the Department of Population\, Family and Reproductive Health. She directed the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2002-2013 and prior to that was director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests relate to contraception\, fertility and related reproductive health behaviors in low-income settings. She serves as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 project which conducts rapid monitoring surveys of family planning indicators in 11 countries using smart-phone technology. She also headed the Family Health and Wealth Study\, a longitudinal study of nearly 5000 families in six national peri-urban settings in Africa. She has published on the evolution of the international family planning movement\, estimation of maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use\, and variation in unwanted fertility with contraceptive service access in developing countries. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and serves or has served on a various scientific review and advisory committees of federal and international agencies and boards of non-governmental organizations. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/contraception-a-social-vaccine-part-i/ CATEGORIES:2016-17 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR