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SUMMARY:ORWH COVID-19 Webinar Will Cover Intersectionality and Structural Inequality During Public Health Crises
DESCRIPTION:On June 24\, 2021\, ORWH will host “Analysis and Action: Applications of Intersectionality in COVID-19\,” the second webinar in the “Diverse Voices: COVID-19\, Intersectionality\, and the Health of Women” speaker series. \nSpeaking are authors of two American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) articles on intersectionality: Lisa Bowleg\, Ph.D.\, M.A.\, of George Washington University and Tonia Poteat\, Ph.D.\, M.P.H.\, PA-C\, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \n\nDr. Bowleg will discuss her commentary piece in AJPH titled “We’re Not All in This Together: On COVID-19\, Intersectionality\, and Structural Inequality.”\nDr. Poteat will speak about her AJPH article titled “Navigating the Storm: How to Apply Intersectionality to Public Health in Times of Crisis.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Today\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the “Diverse Voices” Speaker Series\nORWH’s “Diverse Voices” speaker series disseminates key COVID-19 research findings that are relevant to diverse groups of women and incorporate a multidimensional sex-and-gender focus. The series strives to increase public awareness\, understanding\, and engagement with COVID-19 research. Each session includes one or more authors of articles relevant to the health of women. Speakers present\, in plain language\, specific takeaways from their publications for researchers\, clinicians\, and the public. By amplifying key research on women’s health\, the series also seeks to enable diverse women to make informed decisions about their participation in therapeutic and vaccine trials and other research.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/orwh-covid-19-webinar-will-cover-intersectionality-and-structural-inequality-during-public-health-crises/
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SUMMARY:J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture: Teresa Seeman: Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens
DESCRIPTION:The J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture will be held on April 30\, 2020. \nTeresa Seeman\, PhD\, will present “Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens.” Seeman 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. \nWorking 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. \nHer 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. \nAbstract: \nThe presentation will examine evidence linking socio-economic and socio-emotional life-histories to trajectories of aging with explicit attention to the multiple biological pathways involved in these relationships.  Taking a life-course perspective\, illustrative examples of the patterning of these relationships across the life-course will be reviewed.  Evidence of later-life plasticity of psychosocial and biological influences will be highlighted\, illustrating the potential for health promotion via psychosocial interventions even at later ages. \nAbout the annual 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. Lisa Berkman\, 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 (2019);  Dr. Douglas Massey\, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University (2018) and Dr. John Bongaarts\, Vice President and Distinguished Scholar of the Population Council (2017). \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/j-richard-udry-distinguished-lecture-teresa-seeman-aging-trajectories-through-biopsychosocial-lens/
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SUMMARY:Nancy Krieger: COVID-19\, structural racism\, embodied histories\, and the two-edged sword of data: structural problems require structural solutions
DESCRIPTION:On April 23\, 2021\, Nancy Krieger\, Professor of Social Epidemiology\, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women\, Gender\, and Health.\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, will present “COVID-19\, structural racism\, embodied histories\, and the two-edged sword of data: structural problems require structural solutions” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-2021 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nSuggested readings from Dr. Krieger \nAbstract: \nCOVID-19 has pulled the thread\, starkly revealing both profound connections – and profound divisions – both within the US and within and between countries worldwide\, with risk of infection\, illness\, and death profoundly and inequitably socially structured. Analyzing and acting to alter the myriad ways in which structural racism systemically generates health inequities\, including for COVID-19\, requires engaging with the two-edged sword of data. This sword cuts deeply with respect to the profound challenges of conceptualizing\, operationalizing\, and analyzing the very data deployed – i.e.\, racialized categories – to document racialized health inequities. In my presentation\, I use the example of COVID-19 to dissect the sword’s two edges: (1) the non-use (Edge #1) and (2) problematic use (Edge #2) of data on racialized groups – but the point is data for health justice. Because structural problems require structural solutions\, for both data and action for health justice\, I conclude with recommendations for a new feasible enforceable institutional mandate for the reporting and analysis of publicly-funded work involving racialized groups and health data. A core requirement is that racialized health data must always be conceptually justified and analyzed in relation to relevant data about racialized societal inequities. A new opportunity arises as US government agencies re-engage with their work\, with a stated commitment to racial and economic justice\, to move forward with structural measures to sharpen and strengthen the work for health equity. \nBio: \nNancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology and American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor\, in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women\, Gender\, and Health. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist\, with a background in biochemistry\, philosophy of science\, and the history of public health\, combined with over 35 years of activism linking issues involving social justice\, science\, and health. In 2004\, she became an ISI highly cited scientist (reaffirmed: 2015 ISI update)\, a group comprising “less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers\,” and in 2019 she was ranked as being “in the top 0.01% of scientists based on your impact” for both total career and in 2017 by a new international standardized citations metrics author database\, including as #1 among the 90 top scientists listed for 2017 with a primary field of public health and secondary field of epidemiology (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384). In 2013 she received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association\, and in 2015\, she was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship\, which was renewed in 2020; also in 2020\, she was awarded the American College of Epidemiology’s “Outstanding Contributions to Epidemiology” award. \nInformed by an analysis of the history and politics of epidemiology and public health\, Dr. Krieger’s work addresses three topics: (1) conceptual frameworks to understand\, analyze\, and improve the people’s health\, including her ecosocial theory of disease distribution\, focused on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequities\, including structural racism and other types of adverse discrimination; and (3) methodologic research to improve monitoring of health inequities. She is author of Epidemiology and The People’s Health: Theory and Context (Oxford University Press (OUP)\, 2011) and editor for the OUP series “Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health” (starting with Political Epidemiology & The People’s Health\, by Jason Beckfield\, OUP\, 2018; Climate Change & The People’s Health\, by Sharon Friel\, OUP\, 2019; and Critical Epidemiology & The People’s Health by Jaime Brielh\, OUP\, 2021). She also is editor of Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives (Baywood Press\, 2004) and co-editor\, with Glen Margo\, of AIDS: The Politics of Survival (Baywood Publishers\, 1994)\, and\, with Elizabeth Fee\, of Women’s Health\, Politics\, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender\, Medicine\, and Public Health (Baywood Publishers\, 1994). In 1994 she co-founded\, and still chairs\, the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association\, which focuses on links between social justice and public health. \n  \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here. \n 
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/nancy-krieger-structural-racism-and-peoples-health-history-and-context-matters/
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CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Ross Boyce: Geography as Destiny: Malaria in the Highlands of Western Uganda
DESCRIPTION:On April 16\, 2021\, Ross Boyce\, a Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine\, will present “Geography as Destiny: Malaria in the Highlands of Western Uganda” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nMalaria remains one of the leading cause of pediatric morbidity and mortality in Uganda\, despite the availability of effective prevention measures\, diagnostic tools\, and treatments. The development of new interventions to achieve further progress against the disease requires a detailed knowledge of the geographic factors that drive transmission as well as an intricate understanding of the existing public health systems that provide frontline care. Nowhere are these factors more important than in western Uganda\, where the highland terrain creates micro-environments of intense transmission\, while also imposing significant barriers to service delivery and care seeking. \nBio: \nDr. Ross Boyce is a Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He is a native of Clemmons\, North Carolina\, having graduated Magna Cum Laude from Davidson College with Honors in Chemistry. After graduation\, Dr. Boyce was commissioned as an Infantry Officer in the United States Army\, eventually rising to the rank of Captain. He completed two deployments to Iraq\, where he served in a variety leadership positions including Reconnaissance Platoon Leader\, Operations Officer\, and Civil-Military Officer. For his service\, Dr. Boyce was awarded three Bronze Star Medals\, including one with a Valor Device for heroism in combat. \nUpon leaving the military\, Dr. Boyce attended medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Between his third and fourth years of medical school\, Dr. Boyce completed a M.Sc. In Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine\, focusing his thesis on the control of Dengue vectors. Dr. Boyce completed his medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital\, where together with his partners at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) and Epicentre Mbarara Research Base\, he has worked to establish an active malaria research program in the highlands of Western Uganda. \nDr. Boyce’s research focuses on the epidemiology of malaria and vector-borne diseases in East Africa\, particularly in rural\, underserved communities. He is interested in the expanding field of implementation science with the intent of developing and operationalizing evidence-based practices to improve care delivery and optimize limited resources. Currently\, Dr. Boyce has two areas of active investigation. The first is an evaluation of multiple antigen rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) to provide a semi-quantitative estimate of parasite density and ideally\, risk of severe malaria in order to guide management strategies at remote health facilities. A second area of investigation is the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to describe the spatial epidemiology of malaria and eventually identify and target “hotspots” via community-based interventions. Such work holds the potential to reduce local malaria transmission in a sustainable\, cost-effective manner\, while maximizing existing public health infrastructure such as community health workers. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/ross-boyce-geography-as-destiny-malaria-in-the-highlands-of-western-uganda/
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SUMMARY:The Gendered Navigation of Work and Family Life through Social Upheaval
DESCRIPTION:“The Gendered Navigation of Work and Family Life through Social Upheaval” \nWednesday\, April 14th \n1:00-2:00pm EST \n  \nZoom Link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/92253738104 \n  \n\n\n\n\nAbstract: The 1900 generation became adults in the prosperous 1920s and then lived through the Great Depression and World War II\, all the while navigating work and family ideals and realities. Rarely before studied\, the 1900 generation reveals important insights into the roots of gendered work-family tensions. Their pioneering experiences forged through a massive economic downturn and war have much to suggest about families and work today\, especially given how life-altering the pandemic has been. Join the authors of Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey through the Twentieth Century for a conversation about their findings.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard A. Settersten Jr. \nUniversity Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Barbara Knudson Endowed Chair at Oregon State University\nGlen H. Elder Jr. \nOdum Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\nLisa D. Pearce  \nZachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Term Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/the-gendered-navigation-of-work-and-family-life-through-social-upheaval/
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SUMMARY:Transgender women's perceptions of HIV cure-related research
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, April 12th at 9am Pacific /12pm Eastern\, the lead author of that article\, Dr. Tonia Poteat\, will discuss with us the results from this qualitative investigation into transgender women’s perceptions of HIV cure-related research. \nPlease register for this Zoom meeting here: https://bit.ly/3cwNvID \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nBTW\, the same email will also provide a way for you to submit questions prior to the meeting on the 12th. \nAnd be sure to check out the Facebook event page https://fb.me/e/3L3xBAY22 for information related to the topic that will be shared as we get closer to the meeting. \n  \nABOUT OUR GUEST \nTonia Poteat\, PhD\, PA-C\, MPH\, is Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill\, as well as core faculty in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. \nAfter completing her PhD at Johns Hopkins\, Dr. Poteat served for two years in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator as the Senior Advisor for Key Populations. \nSince returning to academia in 2014\, Dr. Poteat’s research\, teaching\, and practice have focused on HIV and LGBT health disparities with particular attention to the health and well-being of transgender communities. \nShe is a certified HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine and has devoted her clinical practice to providing medically appropriate and culturally competent care to members of the LGBTQ community as well as people living with HIV. \nWe hope that you’ll be about to join the presentation of April 12th and add your questions and concerns to our discussion with Dr. Poteat.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/transgender-womens-perceptions-of-hiv-cure-related-research/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T120000
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SUMMARY:Margaret Sheridan: Deprivation and threat\, testing conceptual model of adversity exposure and developmental outcomes
DESCRIPTION:On April 9\, 2021\, Margaret Sheridan\, an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Deprivation and threat\, testing conceptual model of adversity exposure and developmental outcomes” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nExposure to childhood adversity is common and associated with a host of negative developmental outcomes as well as differences in neural structure and function. It is commonly posited that these social experiences “get under the skin” in early childhood\, increasing long-term risk through disruptions to biology. In this talk I propose a novel approach to studying the link between adversity\, brain development\, and risk for psychopathology\, the dimensional model of adversity and psychopathology (DMAP). In this model we propose that adversity exposure can be defined according to  different dimensions which we expect to impact health and well-being through different neural substrates. Whereas we expect deprivation to primarily disrupt function and structure of lateral association cortex (e.g.\, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and superior parietal cortex) and thus complex cognitive processing such as executive functioning. In contrast\, we expect threat to alter structure and function of subcortical structures such as the hippocampus and amygdala and midline regions associated with emotion regulation such as the ventral medial prefrontal cortex and thus\, associated emotion reactivity and automatic regulation processes. In a series of studies I test the basic tenants of the DMAP concluding that initial evidence\, using both a priori hypothesis testing and data-driven approaches is consistent with the proposed model. I conclude by describing future work addressing multiple dimensions of adversity and potential adjustments to the model. \nBio: \nMargaret Sheridan is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the director of the Child Imaging Research on Cognition and Life Experiences Lab (CIRCLE Lab). Margaret’s research examines typical and atypical neurodevelopment of the prefrontal cortex and related systems supporting development of executive function across age. In particular within the CIRCLE lab we examine how early life experiences ranging from maltreatment to poverty or institutionalization impact neural development leading to risk for externalizing psychopathology. Our work has demonstrated that exposure to a variety of early life adversities are related to deficits in function of the prefrontal cortex and that different exposures may impact neural development in specific ways. In particular exposures to threat or violence may impact neural development and thus risk for externalizing psychopathology differently than exposures characterized by a lack of social interaction\, cognitive enrichment\, and complex linguistic experience. The CIRCLE lab uses multiple neuroimaging methods (e.g.\, EEG/ERP\, fMRI\, structural MRI) and multiple behavioral methods (e.g.\, cognitive testing\, structured clinical interview\, in home observation) to achieve these goals. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/margaret-sheridan-tbd/
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CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Craig Hadley: Food insecurity and mental wellbeing: What role does culture play in explaining the association?
DESCRIPTION:On March 26\, 2021\, Craig Hadley\, Winship Distinguished Research Professor at Emory University\, will present “Food insecurity and mental wellbeing: What role does culture play in explaining the association?” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nUncertain access to food\, or food insecurity\, plagues low income households around the world and is especially prevalent and persistent in the Global South. Scores of studies have shown that food insecurity is consistently and robustly associated with poorer mental health. Scholars from public health nutrition and the social sciences have pitched two broad explanations for this association. One set of explanations links food insecurity to poor dietary quality which is posited to erode mental health.  A second set of explanations focuses on the social and cultural aspect of foods and suggests that food insecurity disallows individuals from achieving normative consumption behaviors\, which leads to stress and poor mental wellbeing. In this talk\, I discuss a project from Ethiopia and Brazil that attempts to tease apart these competing explanations and outline some of the challenges inherent in doing so. I conclude by offering some thoughts on how to meaningfully integrate culture into studies of health and wellbeing. \nBio: \nCraig Hadley is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University with research interests that center around the social and cultural production of health. He has worked in Tanzania and Ethiopia for two decades with a focus on carrying out mixed methods studies that explore the social determinants of health. He is increasingly interested in the ways in which the meaning people attribute to feelings\, objects\, and events impact their wellbeing. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/craig-hadley-tbd/
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SUMMARY:Cassandra Davis: Moving from research to practice: A reflection on hurricanes\, schools\, and stakeholders
DESCRIPTION:On March 19\, 2021\, Cassandra Davis\, Research Assistant Professor of Public Policy at UNC\, will present “Moving from research to practice: A reflection on hurricanes\, schools\, and stakeholders” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nIn 2020 alone\, FEMA declared ten major disaster declarations due to a hurricane or tropical storm across eight states and one U.S. territory.  Research suggest that our current decade will see more hydrological hazards will greater intensity as compared to years prior. With this detrimental shift in our communities\, how will schools fare in supporting the academic and emotional needs of their students and educators. In this presentation\, Dr. Davis will share findings from her study that investigated the impact of hurricanes on educators and students in Texas and North Carolina. She will conclude with her process on engaging stakeholders at the regional\, state\, and federal levels. \nBio: \nCassandra R. Davis\, Ph.D.\, is a research professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the environmental disruptions to schooling\, specifically the impact of natural disasters on low-income\, communities of color. Dr. Davis’ goal is to support educators\, community leaders\, and policymakers to improve responses\, preparedness\, and recovery in areas with the highest need. Her most recent project focus on the impact of COVID-19 on schooling communities and First-generation college students. From 2017-2020\, Dr. Davis received funding from the National Science Foundation to explore the impacts of Hurricanes Florence (2018)\, Harvey (2017)\, and Matthew (2016)\, on schools\, educators\, and students. Dr. Davis has also collaborated with school districts to assist them with understanding and applying best practice strategies on topics related to recovering from natural hazards\, improving graduation rates of underrepresented groups\, supporting students with learning differences\, identifying opportunity and achievement gaps amongst students\, assessing the quality of professional development training for school personnel\, and investigating ways to improving school-parent engagement. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/cassandra-davis/
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CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Michal Engelman: Deaths\, Disparities\, and Cumulative (Dis)Advantage: How Social Inequities shape an Impairment Paradox in Later Life
DESCRIPTION:On March 5 2021\, Michal Engelman\, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, will present “Deaths\, Disparities\, and Cumulative (Dis)Advantage: How Social Inequities shape an Impairment Paradox in Later Life” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract \nResearch on health across the life course consistently documents widening racial and socioeconomic disparities from childhood through adulthood\, followed by stabilization\, convergence\,or cross-overs in later life. This pattern appears to contradict expectations informed by cumulative(dis)advantage theory\, but may be a function of differential mortality risks earlier in the life course. Using the Health and Retirement Study\, we characterize the functional impairment histories of a nationally-representative sample of 8\,464 older adults between 1992-2016. Employing non-parametric analyses and discrete outcome multinomial logistic regressions\, we examine how midlife health and social position influence subsequent health change\, mortality and attrition at older ages. Exposures to disadvantages earlier in the life course are strongly associated with poorer functional health in midlife and with mortality. However\, a higher number of functional limitations in midlife is negatively associated with the accumulation of subsequent limitations for white men and women and for Black women\, but not Black men. The impact of social exposures such as educational attainment and marriage on later life health also differs across race and gender groups. The apparent convergence in later-life functional impairment across groups defined by race\, gender\, and socioeconomic status emerges from the impact of social and health inequities on earlier mortality. Higher exposure to disadvantages and a lower protective impact of advantageous exposures lead to higher mortality among Black Americans\, a pattern which in turn masks persistent health inequities later in life. \nBio \nEngelman is a demographer and gerontologist studying the dynamics of population aging and the determinants of longevity and well-being at older ages. Her work examines trajectories of health throughout the life course and their connection with changing aggregate patterns of mortality and morbidity over time. She is currently analyzing the implications of historical population change for contemporary health inequalities and developing a conceptual framework linking demographic and clinical notions of frailty and resilience with the sociological concept of cumulative disadvantage. \n  \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/michal-engelman-deaths-disparities-and-cumulative-disadvantage-how-social-inequities-shape-an-impairment-paradox-in-later-life/
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CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:John Batsis: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts? The Importance of Fat and Muscle in the Aging Process.
DESCRIPTION:On February 26\, 2021\, John Batsis\, an Associate Professor\, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gillings School of Global Public Health\, will present “The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts? The Importance of Fat and Muscle in the Aging Process” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nWith the population of adults aged 65 years and older increasing\, so is the prevalence of obesity and the risk of developing age-related loss of muscle mass and strength\, termed sarcopenia. These two disease entities independently increase a person’s risk for impaired physical function\, disability\, and death. Yet\, a subset is classified as having sarcopenic obesity which is thought to be at higher risk for synergistic complications from both sarcopenia and obesity. This presentation will initially describe the importance and consequences of obesity\, sarcopenia\, and the consequences of the two in older adults. The emerging literature on health promotion will be presented along with the critical gaps and existing barriers that need to be overcome to advance the field and translate findings into clinical practice. \nBiography: \nDr. Batsis is a geriatrician and health services researcher that recently joined the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill in September 2020. Previously\, he was on faculty at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth since 2008. He has considerable experience in large datasets analyses where he has evaluated important relationships between the changes observed in fat and muscle with aging (obesity and sarcopenia) on important outcomes relevant to older adults\, including mortality and physical function. His specific interests are in the synergistic impact of obesity and low muscle mass and strength\, sarcopenic obesity\, and has published extensively in this field. Dr. Batsis recently is a participating member on an International Consensus Definition workgroup for this syndrome. \nHis recent work has focused on translating large-dataset epidemiology-based work to clinical trials in older adults. He is focusing on obesity and the use of technology to improve one’s health. Dr. Batsis has a keen interest in health promotion through the lifecourse and has focused his interests in body composition changes during weight loss efforts. He has written explicitly on the importance of close monitoring in this population. Importantly\, he leverages his ongoing experience in providing clinical care in the outpatient and nursing home settings to older adults with multimorbidity and frailty which inform his research work. \nDr. Batsis is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging and has published over 140 papers. He has received several clinical and research accolades having received the New Investigator Award from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and was selected to the prestigious TidesWell Emerging Leaders in Aging Program for mid-career faculty in geriatrics. He is heavily involved at the national level as a long-standing member of the research committee of AGS and the Gerontological Society of America\, and was a member of The Obesity Society’s Clinical Committee. He recently was appointed to the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and the Journal of Gerontological Medical Sciences. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/john-batsis-tbd/
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CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Matt Hauer: Causal Inference in Population Trends: Searching for Demographic Anomalies in Big Data
DESCRIPTION:On February 19\, 2021\, Matt Hauer\, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University who studies the impacts of climate change on society\, will present “Causal Inference in Population Trends: Searching for Demographic Anomalies in Big Data” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract \nThe proliferation of big data\, wider access to advanced computing platforms\, and the development of powerful statistical algorithms can uncover hidden anomalies in social data\, previously dismissed as noise. Here\, we combine causal inference techniques and abductive reasoning to identify fertility and mortality anomalies on twenty years of complete demographic data in the United States. We uncover real\, “hidden” baby booms/busts and mortality spikes/dips\, distinguishable from regular trend variations. We identify more than 22 and 156 fertility and mortality anomalies\, totaling more than 200k and 600k anomalous births and deaths\, respectively. Notable detectable mortality anomalies include the September 11 2001 terrorist attack in New York and the emergence and acceleration of the opioid epidemic in New Hampshire. Notable fertility anomalies include the “missing births” in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina and the reduction in fertility behavior after the September 2008 stock market crash in Connecticut\, amongst others. The combined causal inference and abductive reasoning approach can be readily adapted to find other\, undiscovered social phenomena or to evaluate the efficacy of important public policies \nBio \nI’m an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University and a faculty affiliate in the Center for Demography and Population Health. My expertise is at the intersection of demography\, migration\, population projections\, and climate change. My recent review article on Sea Level Rise and Human Migration describes one of the most costly and permanent consequences of climate change. \nI have twice received the E. Walter Terrie Award for the best paper on Applied Demography\, in 2015 Florida State University named me a Top 30 Under 30 Young Alumni\, and the University of Georgia awarded me an Excellence-in-Research Award for my dissertation on sea level rise and human migration. More than 270 media outlets have covered my research including Time Magazine\, the New York Times\, the Guardian\, the Washington Post\, and National Geographic. My publications appear in a diverse set of journals including Nature Climate Change\, Demography\, Environmental Research Letters\, Demographic Research\, Population and Environment\, Statistical Modelling\, and Population Research and Policy Review\, among others. Prior to arriving at FSU\, I spent nearly a decade directing the Applied Demography Program at the University of Georgia. https://mathewhauer.com/ \n  \n  \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/matt-hauer-causal-inference-in-population-trends-searching-for-demographic-anomalies-in-big-data/
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SUMMARY:CPC Hackathon 2021
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 12\, 2021\n1:30 pm – 5:30 pm\nZoom \nRegister your team to participate by Wednesday\, February 3rd using this form.  \nFAQs\nWhat is the CPC hackathon? \nEach year\, CPC predoctoral trainees and postdoctoral scholars come together to form interdisciplinary teams and work on developing a research design for a population focused issue or problem. The goals for the hackathon are to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration among trainees\, develop and exhibit your research design skills\, and have fun. \nWhat is the problem/issue that we will be hacking to solve? \nThe problem/issue will focus on a population-oriented topic. However\, the details of the problem/issue will not be announced until the beginning of the event. You will then have the afternoon to work on the issue/problem and prepare a presentation based on your design to a panel of faculty judges. \nWho can attend the event? \nThis event is open to all trainees (Population Science and Biosocial). However\, team registration is required. \nIs there a limit on how many teams that can sign up for the event? \nYes\, only six teams will be allowed to participate in the Hackathon\, so register early! \nWhat are the requirements for developing a team?\nThe requirements for team formation include: \n\nEach team should consist of 3-4 trainees\nTeams cannot have more than 1 postdoctoral scholar\nTeams cannot have more than 1 trainee that is in their first year of graduate studies at UNC\nThere must be at least 2 disciplines represented on each team\n\n\nWhat is the deadline to register my team for the event? \nAll teams must be registered by 5:00 PM on Wednesday\, February 3rd. Register your team here. Please designate one member from your team to fill out the form on behalf of all of the team members. \n\nHow will teams get judged? \nEach team will have 5 minutes to pitch their idea and 5 minutes for questions and answers. Your presentation can include PowerPoint slides\, audience participation\, or whatever you think will best communicate your team’s solution. Be as creative as you want! \n\nWho will be judging our presentations? \nWe have assembled an interdisciplinary judging panel of 3 CPC faculty fellows who are experts in population research. \n\nWhat will be the judging criteria? \nPresentations will be judged based the following criteria: \n\nDoes the presentation effectively address the question?\nHow creative is the research design?\nHow clear and focused is the research design?\nWhat is the likelihood that the design actually has the potential to push population science forward in this area of study?\n\n\nWhat does my team receive if we win the competition? \nThe prize package consists of an estimated $400 in cash value…. as well as some prizes donated by fellow CPCers that are truly priceless. The package will be announced the day of the event! \n\nIs there any prep required before the event? \nOnce you assemble your team and register for the event\, there is nothing else that you will need to do until the day of the event. \n\nWait\, we’re going to do this over Zoom? \nYes! Following introductions\, teams will split off to separate breakout rooms. We’ll then reconvene for presentation and awards. \nQuestions? \nFor more information about the Hackathon\, please contact Abigail Haydon.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/cpc-hackathon-2021/
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SUMMARY:Chris Wildeman: Does Incarceration Shape Trust in the State\, Community Engagement\, and Civic Participation?
DESCRIPTION:On February 12\, 2021\, Chris Wildeman\, Professor of Sociology at Duke University\, will present “Does Incarceration Shape Trust in the State\, Community Engagement\, and Civic Participation?” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract \nIn this article\, we provide the most complete assessment to date of how incarceration is associated with trust in the state\, community engagement\, and civic participation in the United States. Our analysis uses data from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS) and is rooted in the theoretical and normative observation that\, while highly salient and immensely disruptive\, incarceration is one of many factors that might influence community and civic engagement and that incarceration can be mobilizing or demobilizing\, potentially leading to net zero effects. Ultimately\, the results support three conclusions. First\, own incarceration is associated with a deep distrust of state institutions even after adjusting for a host of confounders and matching on observed characteristics. Second\, family member incarceration is associated with distrust of state institutions\, but these differences are roughly half the magnitude of the associations tied to own incarceration. These first two conclusions strongly mirror findings from existing research\, suggesting that the FamHIS data can provide reliable estimates of how incarceration shapes community engagement and civic participation. Finally\, and in a significant break from most research in this area\, neither own incarceration nor family member incarceration is associated with any of the 14 indicators of community and political participation we consider in any of the 84 models we run on participation (14 outcomes\, 3 models per outcome\, models including own incarceration and family member incarceration). Although the cross-sectional nature of our data precludes strong causal claims\, we see this finding as providing vital evidence that while there may be heterogenous effects of incarceration on community engagement and civic participation\, it appears that these heterogenous effects largely cancel each other out. \nBio \n\nChristopher Wildeman is Professor of Sociology at Duke University and Professor at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit. His work focuses on the prevalence\, causes\, and consequences of contact with the criminal legal system and the child welfare system for families.\n\nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/chris-wildeman-does-incarceration-shape-trust-in-the-state-community-engagement-and-civic-participation/
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CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Ken Bollen and Iliya Gutin: What longitudinal model should I choose?
DESCRIPTION:On February 5\, 2021\, Ken Bollen and Iliya Gutin will present “What longitudinal model should I choose?” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nWith the growing availability of longitudinal data comes the question of what model to use? In an ideal world\, theory and substantive arguments would be sufficiently clear to dictate one. But in practice\, there is little guidance and academic fads or the practice in researchers’ fields typically affect model choice. We illustrate how a general longitudinal model (LV-ALT) can help researchers in their selection. The LV-ALT model can specialize to other popular models such as the classic random or fixed effects\, growth curve models\, autoregressive\, latent difference scores\, and a variety of other hybrid structures. The LV-ALT model can help to defend the choice of one of these traditional models or it can suggest new hybrid models to consider.  We illustrate our results with Add Health NLYS79 data on self reported health and an analysis from a forthcoming Demography paper. \nBios: \nKenneth A. Bollen is the Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Department of Sociology. He is a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center and oversees the Methods Consulting Services. He has been at UNC since 1985. From 2000 to 2010\, he was the Director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. \nBollen’s primary research focus is the creation and application of new statistical tools for the social and behavioral sciences with specializations in structural equation models\, latent variables\, and longitudinal modeling. Most of his current applications are in population and health studies. Google Scholar lists over 110\,000 citations to his work. His methodological contributions have been recognized by lifetime achievement awards in two disciplines\, Sociology (Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions in the Field of Sociological Methodology\, 2000) and Psychology (Career Award for Lifetime Achievement. Psychometric Society\, 2018). In 2019\, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University (Sweden). He is the former Chair of the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Social\, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and is an elected Fellow in a number of scholarly organizations. \n  \nIliya Gutin is a doctoral candidate in sociology and predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill\, having received his BA in Sociology at the University of Chicago and then worked at the NORC research organization as a research analyst. His current work focuses on the conceptualization\, definition\, and measurement of health\, illness\, and disease in medical and social research\, and how these decisions influence what it means to be “healthy” in a highly-dynamic and stratified society. Specifically\, his dissertation examines clinical\, epidemiologic\, and subjective ambiguity in our understanding of body weight as a health risk\, and how we can better account for this uncertainty in studying population health. Iliya hopes to continue this kind of work throughout his career\, collaborating with health researchers across different disciplines and backgrounds to achieve closer and more meaningful linkages between the health concepts\, issues\, and disparities we are interested in and the measures we have access to our data. \n  \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/ken-bollen-and-iliya-gutin/
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SUMMARY:By the Book Event :: Feb 03 :: Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey through the Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:The authors of Living on the Edge\, Richard A. Settersten Jr.\, Glen H. Elder Jr.\, and Lisa D. Pearce\, are joined in conversation with Stephanie Coontz to discuss their new book! \nDrawing from the iconic longitudinal Berkeley Guidance Study\, Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey through the Twentieth Century reveals the hopes\, struggles\, and daily lives of the 1900 generation. Most surprising is how relevant and relatable the lives and experiences of this generation are today\, despite the gap of a century. From the reorganization of marriage and family roles and relationships to strategies for adapting to a dramatically changing economy\, the challenges faced by this earlier generation echo our own time. \nLiving on the Edge offers an intimate glimpse into not just the history of our country\, but the feelings\, dreams\, and fears of a generation remarkably kindred to the present day. \nJoin us for a panel discussion on this timely subject on Wednesday\, February 3\, at 12PM Eastern. REGISTER HERE.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/by-the-book-event-feb-03-living-on-the-edge-an-american-generations-journey-through-the-twentieth-century/
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Wrigley-Field: The Deaths America Treats as Normal
DESCRIPTION:On January 29\, 2021\, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field\, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities\, and a Faculty Member of the Minnesota Population Center\, will present “The Deaths America Treats as Normal” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nThis talk explores racial disparities in mortality during U.S. pandemics\, using the 1918 flu and COVID-19 pandemics to develop general frameworks for understanding inequality in pandemic experiences—and what they reveal about inequality during ordinary\, non-pandemic times. The first part of the talk considers racial disparities during the most devastating respiratory pandemic of the 20th century\, the 1918 flu; shows that those disparities were surprisingly small; and develops new hypotheses\, grounded in social immunology\, to account for this anomaly. The second part of the talk pivots from 1918 to 2020. During the 1918 pandemic\, U.S. white mortality was still lower than U.S. Black mortality had been nearly every year. Today\, during the COVID-19 pandemic\, the same pattern holds: for white mortality in 2020 to reach the best-ever Black mortality levels would take 400\,000 excess deaths among whites. Using pandemic mortality as a measuring stick for racial disparities offers a new perspective on the measures we do — and do not — embrace in order to combat racial inequality. I use demographic mortality models to make a new\, demographically based case for reparations for racism. \nBio: \nElizabeth Wrigley-Field is a sociologist and demographer at the University of Minnesota\, specializing in racial inequality in mortality and historical infectious disease. She is also a quantitative methodologist\, developing models designed to clarify relationships between micro and macro perspectives on demographic relationships. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/elizabeth-wrigley-field-the-deaths-america-treats-as-normal/
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SUMMARY:Fenaba Addo: Wealth Inequality in Young Adulthood: Higher Education\, Racial Disparities\, and Middle Class Status
DESCRIPTION:On January 22\, 2021\, Fenaba Addo\, an Associate Professor of Public Policy at UNC\, will present “Wealth Inequality in Young Adulthood: Higher Education\, Racial Disparities\, and Middle Class Status” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nFor whom is higher education an engine of economic mobility? How should we value post-secondary education in a society with extreme wealth inequality and skyrocketing student loan debt? The message that post-secondary education is one of the strongest predictors of socioeconomic mobility\, for Black and Latinx young adults in particular\, is quite pervasive. It was not until recently\, however\, that we as society begin to grapple with amount of debt that individuals are having to take on in order to complete their post-secondary degrees. Using data of youth born in the early 1980s\, this new research examines racial inequality in wealth in young adulthood\, its relationship with higher education\, and what is means to be middle class. \nBio: \nFenaba R. Addo is an Associate Professor of Public Policy. Her work examines debt and wealth inequality with a focus on family\, relationships\, and higher education. She received her Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University and holds a B.S. in Economics from Duke University. Prior to joining UNC\, she was the Lorna Jorgensen Wendt Associate Professor of Money\, Relationships\, and Equality (MORE) in the Department of Consumer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \nThis event will be held on Zoom. You can register here. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/fenaba-addo-wealth-inequality-in-young-adulthood-higher-education-racial-disparities-and-middle-class-status/
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SUMMARY:Margaret Hicken: Landscapes of racial dispossession and control: Cultural and structural racism and population health inequities
DESCRIPTION:On November 13\, 2020\, Margaret Hicken\, a Research Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center\, will present “Landscapes of racial dispossession and control: Cultural and structural racism and population health inequities” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nThe health inequalities between Black and White Americans have been well-documented for decades\, with much of the population and public health literature still focused on individual-level behaviors and health care. A small but growing literature has called for an emphasis on structural racism as the root driver of these inequalities\, but often focus solely on single institutional aspects of US structure\, on contemporary forms of racism\, and/or on the psychosocial impact of racism. In the Landscapes of Racial Dispossession and Control project\, historical and contemporary forms of racial violence are linked through notions of cultural racism to result in sustained racial health inequalities. Cultural racism is composed of our shared values\, ideologies\, and beliefs of what it means to be American. These value systems then shape the ways our interconnected and symbiotic institutions operate to create our social structure. In other words\, cultural racism shapes the structural answers to “Whose life counts?”. With a framework linking cultural and structural racism through history\, the fundamental drivers — and potential intervention points — of contemporary population health inequalities becomes clearer. \nBio: \nMaggie Hicken is an interdisciplinary population health scientist with training in both demography and epidemiology as well as molecular and cellular biology and population genetics. She examines notions of cultural and structural racism and their relation to health inequities through biological mechanisms. Much of her research to date has focused on cultural racism and the toxic burden of vigilance on the part of Black Americans as they navigate everyday White space as well as on modifying impact of biosocial stress on the association between environmental hazards and health. With her K01 award\, she gained training in population genetics and has examined the role of the social environment in the link between genes and chronic conditions. Further\, with her current R01-funded research\, she is examining the both historical and contemporary forms of residential segregation\, the interactive impact of social stressors and environmental hazards\, and DNA methylation patterns that might be associated with racial inequalities in aging. Through each thread of her research\, Dr. Hicken weaves together theory from the humanities\, legal studies\, and social science to clarify the root causes of racial health inequalities. \nThis event will be held on Zoom and is closed to the public. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/margaret-hicken-landscapes-of-racial-dispossession-and-control/
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CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Tyson Brown: Structural Racism and Health Stratification in the U.S.: Connecting Theory to Measurement
DESCRIPTION:On October 16\, 2020\, Tyson Brown\, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the director of the Center on Health & Society at Duke University\, will present “Structural Racism and Health Stratification in the U.S.: Connecting Theory to Measurement” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nAbstract: \nDespite the centrality of structural explanations for understanding racialized inequality\, less than one percent of studies on the link between race and health have focused on structural racism. Moreover\, there has often been a disconnect between the conceptualization of structural racism in the race theory literature and the measurement strategies used in population health research.  This study advances the field by 1) synthesizing literatures on macro-level structural racism and population health to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the links between them\, 2) measuring macro-level structural racism in U.S. states across multiple domains\, including political participation\, education\, economics\, housing\, and the judicial system\, and 3) quantifying the effects of structural racism on multiple health outcomes among middle-aged and older Blacks and Whites. We use administrative data measuring state-level racial stratification linked to geocoded individual-level demographic and health data from the Health and Retirement Study (N=9\,126). Results show that structural racism is associated with worse health for Blacks but not Whites. By distilling the central tenets of structural racism theories and concretizing them in a way that improves our ability to measure structural racism\, this study demonstrates the utility of macro-level approaches to understanding the deleterious impact of racism on health. \nBiography: \nDr. Brown’s program of research examines the who\, when\, and how questions regarding ethnoracial inequalities in health and wealth. He has authored numerous articles in leading sociology and population health journals\, and his research contributions have been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association. Brown is also the recipient of Duke University’s Thomas Langford Lectureship Award. In addition\, he has been awarded funding for his training and research from the Robert Wood Johnson and Ford Foundations as well as the National Institutes of Health. \nBrown is currently working on several projects that investigate macro-level factors and psychosocial mechanisms that underlie social inequalities in health. The first project\, “Structural Racism and Health Stratification in the U.S.: Connecting Theory to Measurement\,” is on the conceptualization and measurement of state-level structural racism and its effects on population health. The second project uses robust analytic techniques to quantify the contributions of socioeconomic adversity and stress processes to ethnoracial inequalities in health. \nProfessor Brown is actively engaged in service at the university and national level. He founded and co-organizes Duke’s Writing and ReseArch Productivity (WRAP) Group\, which aims to promote excellence in scholarship and support Black faculty by creating protected writing time and a space that enhances faculty inclusion and sense of community. Brown has also served in leadership position within professional organizational as well as on the editorial boards of top journals such as Social Forces\, Social Psychology Quarterly\, Journals of Gerontology\, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. \nThis event will be held on Zoom and is closed to the public. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/tyson-brown-talk-tba/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Chantel Martin: Embodying Place: Neighborhood Environment and Health Disparities
DESCRIPTION:On September 25\, 2020\, Chantel Martin\, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center\, will present “Embodying Place: Neighborhood Environment and Health Disparities” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members. \nChantel Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an epidemiologist\, Dr. Martin’s research seeks to uncover social and biological mechanisms of health disparities across the life course. By identifying the long-term health effects of social stressors\, her multidisciplinary research aims to improve health among racial/ethnic minorities and eliminate health disparities. Dr. Martin’s work currently investigates how social and environmental factors during early life stages\, such as pregnancy\, childhood\, and adolescence\, become biologically embodied to impact risk of chronic disease and health disparities within and across generations. Her research is currently supported by two NIMHD grants: the K99/R00 Pathways to Independence Award and the Social Epigenomics Research Focused on Minority Health and Health Disparities program. Chantel received her PhD in Epidemiology from UNC Chapel Hill and her MSPH from UNC Charlotte. \nHer talk will explore biological embodiment of the social environment\, its influence on cardiometabolic health\, and potential biological mechanisms that may partially explain associations. \nThis event will be held on Zoom and is closed to the public. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/chantel-martin-embodying-place-neighborhood-environment-and-health-disparities-2/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Tonia Poteat: Black Trans Lives Matter:  Understanding and Addressing Embodied Inequalities
DESCRIPTION:On September 11\, 2020\, Tonia Poteat\, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center\, will present “Black Trans Lives Matter:  Understanding and Addressing Embodied Inequalities” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year\, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members.\n \nDescription \nAfter a brief overview of Dr. Poteat’s research on LGBTQ health inequities\, the majority of this presentation will focus on her current studies that use qualitative\, quantitative\, and clinical methods to elucidate mechanisms responsible for stigma-induced health inequities and identify effective interventions to reduce them. \nBiography \nTonia Poteat\, PhD\, PA-C\, MPH\, is Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill\, as well as core faculty in the UNC Center for Health Equity Research. After completing her PhD at Johns Hopkins\, Dr. Poteat served for two years in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator as the Senior Advisor for Key Populations. Since returning to academia in 2014\, Dr. Poteat’s research\, teaching\, and practice have focused on HIV and LGBT health disparities with particular attention to the health and well-being of transgender communities. Her current work attends to the health consequences of stigma based on multiple marginalized identities. Dr. Poteat is a certified HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine and has devoted her clinical practice to providing medically appropriate and culturally competent care to members of the LGBTQ community as well as people living with HIV. In 2018\, she was selected for the Simmons Scholars Program which provides support for underrepresented faculty in medicine. \nThis event will be held on Zoom and is closed to the public. We will post a recording after the talk. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/tonia-poteat-black-trans-lives-matter/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Courtney Boen: Embodying Racism: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Disparities in Health and Aging
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We will update as soon as we can reschedule for later this year. \nOn April 17\, 2020\, Courtney Boen\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, University of Pennsylvania\, will present “Embodying Racism: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Disparities in Health and Aging” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Boen is an alumni of the CPC Training Program. \nBoen’s research focuses primarily on the social determinants of population health inequality\, with particular attention to the social factors producing racial and socioeconomic health inequities. Utilizing biomarkers of physiological functioning and cellular aging and a variety of analytic techniques\, her work aims to improve scientific understanding how macro-level social inequality “gets under the skin” to produce health disparities from birth through late life. Currently\, she is engaged in several projects that examine how exposure to racism-related stress in various domains of social life (e.g.\, in neighborhoods\, in contacts with the criminal justice system\, and in interpersonal interactions) contributes to racial disparities in pre-disease biological markers of health and aging. Her other ongoing and previous studies further investigate the social factors producing racial and socioeconomic health disparities. She has examined how disparities in socioeconomic conditions—including differential access to wealth and exposure to early-life socioeconomic disadvantage—contribute to population health inequality. I have also collaborated on projects that assess how access to social relationships and exposure to relationship strain contribute to disparities in health and disease risk. Her research has been published in Social Science and Medicine\, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\, Biodemography and Social Biology\, and the Journal of Aging and Health. \nPresentation Abstract: \nThe divergence and persistence of Black-White health gaps from mid- and late life has led scholars to hypothesize that Black Americans may experience accelerated aging relative to Whites due to racial differences in social exposures. Still\, the social and biological processes undergirding racial disparities in health and mortality remain to be better understood. In this talk\, I bridge insights from critical race theory and biodemography to examine the life course patterns and determinants of Black-White disparities in health and aging. First\, using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)\, I assess Black-White gaps in biological aging and further examine the role of life course socioeconomic and stress exposures in producing racial disparities in biological age acceleration. Next\, drawing on work using a variety of survey and social media data\, I show how exposure to vicarious and cultural racism-related stress may also play an essential—but largely underestimated role—in producing Black-White patterns of health and aging. Together\, findings from these studies show that\, while life course socioeconomic exposures are critical drivers of racial health disparities\, socioeconomic resources cannot “buy” Black Americans the health protections associated with whiteness. In order to more fully capture the role of racism in shaping population health inequality\, research on racial disparities in health and aging must expand beyond individual measures of social exposures to also integrate measures reflecting the interactional\, cultural\, and structural nature of racism. \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. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-courtney-boen/
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:CANCELED: Nancy Krieger: Structural Racism and People's Health: History and Context Matters
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We will update as soon as we can reschedule for later this year. \nOn April 3\, 2020\, Nancy Krieger\, Professor of Social Epidemiology\, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women\, Gender\, and Health.\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\, will present “Structural Racism and People’s Health: History and Context Matters” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nNancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology\, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women\, Gender\, and Health. She has been a member of the School’s faculty since 1995. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist (PhD\, Epidemiology\, UC Berkeley\, 1989)\, with a background in biochemistry\, philosophy of science\, and history of public health\, plus 30+ years of activism involving social justice\, science\, and health. In 2004\, she became an ISI highly cited scientist\, a group comprising “less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers\, with her ranking reaffirmed in the 2015 update.” In 2013\, she received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association\, and in 2015\, she was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship. In 2019\, Dr. Krieger was ranked as being “in the top 0.01% of scientists based on your impact” for both total career and in 2017 by a new international standardized citations metrics author database\, including as #1 among the 90 top scientists listed for 2017 with a primary field of public health and secondary field of epidemiology (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384) \nDr. Krieger’s work addresses three topics: (1) conceptual frameworks to understand\, analyze\, and improve the people’s health\, including the ecosocial theory of disease distribution she first proposed in 1994 and its focus on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research on societal determinants of population health and health inequities; and (3) methodologic research on improving monitoring of health inequities. In April 2011\, Dr. Krieger’s book\, Epidemiology and the People’s Health: Theory and Context\, was published by Oxford University Press. This book presents the argument for why epidemiologic theory matters. Tracing the history and contours of diverse epidemiologic theories of disease distribution from ancient societies on through the development of — and debates within — contemporary epidemiology worldwide\, it considers their implications for improving population health and promoting health equity. She is also editor of Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives (Baywood Press\, 2004) and co-editor\, with Glen Margo\, of AIDS: The Politics of Survival (Baywood Publishers\, 1994)\, and\, with Elizabeth Fee\, of Women’s Health\, Politics\, and Power: Essays on Sex/Gender\, Medicine\, and Public Health (Baywood Publishers\, 1994). In 1994 she co-founded\, and still chairs\, the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association\, which is concerned with the links between social justice and public health. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \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. \n 
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-nancy-krieger/
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:CANCELED: Becky Pettit: Illusions of Justice: Crime and Punishment in a Model Reform State
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We will update as soon as we can reschedule for later this year. \nOn March 27\, 2020\, Becky Pettit\, the Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professorship of Liberal Arts\, University of Texas at Austin\, will present “Illusions of Justice: Crime and Punishment in a Model Reform State” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nBecky Pettit is the Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a sociologist\, trained in demographic methods\, with interests in social inequality broadly defined.  She is the author of two books and numerous articles which have appeared in the American Sociological Review\, the American Journal of Sociology\, Demography\, Social Problems\, Social Forces and other journals. Her book\, Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress (Russell Sage Foundation 2012)\, investigates how decades of growth in America’s prisons and jails obscures basic accounts of racial inequality.  Her first book\, co-authored with Jennifer Hook of the University of Southern California\, Gendered Tradeoffs: Family\, Social Policy\, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries (Russell Sage Foundation 2009) was selected as a Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics in 2010. \nPettit has been the recipient of many honors and awards.  Her paper “Black-White Wage Inequality\, Employment Rates\, and Incarceration” (with Bruce Western of Columbia University) received the James Short paper award from the American Sociological Association Crime\, Law\, and Deviance Section.  Another paper “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course:  Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration” (with Western) received Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section Article Prize Committee.  A related paper (also with Hook) was a finalist for the 2006 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.  She was elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association in 2018. \nPettit has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation\, Northwestern University\, and the American Bar Foundation\, and was a recipient of a mentored research development award (K01) from the National Institutes of Health (NICHD) for her work on “Institutionalizing Inequality:  Gender\, Work and Family.”  Pettit’s research has been featured in the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, MSNBC\, and numerous other media outlets.  She has been invited to speak at the White House\, the Congressional Budget Office\, the Department of Health and Human Services\, the U.S. Census Bureau\, and many colleges and universities. \nProfessor Pettit teaches courses on social inequality\, methods\, and statistics.  She edited Social Problems\, the official journal of the Society of the Study of Social Problems\, from 2011-2014. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and a B.A. in sociology from University of California at Berkeley. \nPresentation Abstract: \nAbstract:  Two decades of crime declines in the United States and significant and sustained policy attention to criminal justice reform has led some observers to suggest that the U.S. is reconsidering its experiment in mass incarceration.  Most Americans are at the lowest risk of victimization in a generation and some states\, like Texas\, have attracted outsized attention for reform efforts to reduce the number of people held in state prisons and jails\, decrease sentence lengths and time served\, and offer community-based supervision and non-custodial sanctions.  However\, and despite significant rhetoric of criminal justice reform\, incarceration and criminal justice contact in the United States more broadly – and the Lonestar state specifically – remains historically and comparatively high.  Texas sanctions more people each year through the criminal justice system than live in Wyoming\, Vermont\, North Dakota\, Alaska\, South Dakota\, Delaware\, and Montana combined.  In this paper\, I examine whether and how contemporary criminal justice policy in Texas influences exposure to the criminal justice system.  I consider how recent reforms in criminal justice policy and practice impact different demographic groups\, influence accounts of inequality\, and align with principles of justice. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \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/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-becky-pettit/
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:CANCELED: Chantel Martin: Embodying Place: Neighborhood Environment and Health Disparities
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. We will update this page when it’s rescheduled.  \nOn March 20\, 2020\, Chantel Martin\, a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Embodying Place: Neighborhood Environment and Health Disparities” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Martin is also a Postdoctoral Scholar at CPC.\nChantel Martin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and the Carolina Population Center at UNC Chapel Hill. As an epidemiologist\, her interdisciplinary research program combines methods and models from social science\, biology\, and life course epidemiology to understand the impact of the social environment during sensitive periods of development on racial/ethnic disparities in cardiometabolic health disparities; and elucidate the biological underpinnings that link the social environment to health disparities. Her research is currently supported by an NIH K99/R00 Pathways to Independence Award and the NIMHD Social Epigenomics Research Focused on Minority Health and Health Disparities program. Chantel received her PhD in Epidemiology from UNC Chapel Hill and her MSPH from UNC Charlotte. Her talk will explore the association of the neighborhood social environment with cardiometabolic health across the life course and introduce potential biological mechanisms that may partially explain these associations. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \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/chantel-martin-embodying-place-neighborhood-environment-and-health-disparities/
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:CANCELED: J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture: Teresa Seeman: Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens
DESCRIPTION:Update: This lecture has been canceled. We will update the website with more information shortly. \nThe J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture will be held on March 5\, 2020\, 3:30-5:00 pm. \nTeresa Seeman\, PhD\, will present “Aging Trajectories Through Biopsychosocial Lens.” Seeman 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. \nWorking 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. \nHer 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. \nAbstract: \nThe presentation will examine evidence linking socio-economic and socio-emotional life-histories to trajectories of aging with explicit attention to the multiple biological pathways involved in these relationships.  Taking a life-course perspective\, illustrative examples of the patterning of these relationships across the life-course will be reviewed.  Evidence of later-life plasticity of psychosocial and biological influences will be highlighted\, illustrating the potential for health promotion via psychosocial interventions even at later ages. \nAbout the annual 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. Lisa Berkman\, 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 (2019);  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/j-richard-udry-distinguished-lecture-teresa-seeman/
LOCATION:Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium (133 Rosenau Hall)\, 133 Rosenau Hall\, 135 Dauer Drive\, Gillings School of Public Health\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27599‑7400\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aging,J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T120000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Su: Wealth\, Assets\, and Unintended Childbearing
DESCRIPTION:On February 28\, 2020\, Jessica Su\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center\, will present “Wealth\, Assets\, and Unintended Childbearing” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Jessica Houston Su is a sociologist who studies American family life and inequality. As a family demographer\, she uses a sociological lens and quantitative analytic techniques to examine social patterns of family formation and how they are related to the health and well-being of parents and children. Her research contributes to the sociological literature in families\, health\, inequality\, work\, and demography. One stream of her research examines the causes and consequences of unintended and nonmarital fertility. For example\, she examines how both macro and micro economic resources shape patterns of unintended childbearing. She also examines the short- and long-term implications of unintended childbearing for the mental health of parents and children. Another stream of research examines how nonstandard work schedules are related to the well-being of working mothers and their young children. Her research appears in peer-reviewed journals such as Demography\, the Journal of Marriage and Family\, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University and her B.A. in Sociology from Dartmouth College. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \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/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-jessica-su/
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:Alison Buttenheim: Nudging or Fudging? Realizing the potential for behavioral economics to improve population health
DESCRIPTION:Watch live via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/491702016 \nOn February 21\, 2020\, Alison Buttenheim will present “Nudging or Fudging? Realizing the potential for behavioral economics to improve population health” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Buttenheim is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Penn Nursing\, an Assistant Professor of Health Policy\, Perelman School of Medicine; a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics\, the Associate Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics and the Associate Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. \nAlison M. Buttenheim wants to understand how people make decisions about their health and focuses her research on the use of behavioral economics to increase the uptake of evidence-based care. Her work ranges from how households in Peru decide whether to apply insecticide to eliminate a disease-carrying insect vector to why parents in the United States request exemptions from child immunization laws. \nPresentation Abstract: \nApplying behavioral economics insights to global health programs offers great potential to address the “last mile” behavioral challenges to achieving better health outcomes. Researchers and practitioners from several disciplines have generated promising results in diverse settings through focused laboratory or basic science studies and through field experiments. There is robust demand from health ministries\, funders\, and bilateral and multilateral development agencies for bringing a behavioral economics lens to intervention and program development.  That said\, the field is also producing many null or negative trials\, many of which are never published\, and is also falling short in widespread dissemination and scale of successful interventions. In this talk\, I propose four barriers (and some solutions) to realizing the full potential for behavioral economics approaches to meaningfully improve population health: imprecision in the use of the “nudge” concept\, inadequate intervention design processes\, ignoring heterogeneous treatment effects\, and insufficient attention paid to implementation. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \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/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-alison-buttenheim/
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:Oscar Gonzalez: On Learning Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:On February 14\, 2020\, Oscar Gonzalez\, an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “On Learning Machine Learning” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Gonzalez studies statistical mediation\, machine learning/data mining\, and psychometrics and how these statistical methods can help identify\, evaluate\, and measure mechanisms of behavior change in interventions or prevention programs. \nPresentation abstract: \nOn Learning Machine Learning \nA lot of research in the social sciences has focused on hypothesis-driven\, explanatory approaches to data analysis. Machine learning could supplement a researcher’s analytic toolbox to explore patterns in datasets and study research hypothesis that focus on prediction. In this talk\, I provide an overview of basic concepts of machine learning and misconceptions for its use in social science research. I also review different types of machine learning methodology and the role of machine learning in area of data science. Finally\, I briefly discuss part of my research on the intersection between machine learning and psychometrics for short-form development and diagnostic assessment and discuss what each of these fields could learn from each other. \nWe record as many videos as possible. You can see previous events here. \nInstructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC (cpc@unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar.  \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/interdisciplinary-research-seminars-oscar-gonzalez/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2019-20 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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