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SUMMARY:Monitoring Health Progress: From Global Estimates to Local Health Data
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 5th\, Ties Boerma\, PhD\, will present Monitoring Health Progress: From Global Estimates to Local Health Data as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nBoerma is Professor and Canada Research Chair for Population and Global Health at the Centre for Global Public Health\, Department of Community Health Sciences\, University of Manitoba\, Canada\, and Director of the Countdown to 2030 for Reproductive\, Maternal\, Newborn\, Child and Adolescent Health. He has over 30 years of experience working in global public health and research programs\, including 10 years at national and districts levels in Africa. Boerma served as Director of the Evaluation project from 1997-2002\, precursor to today’s MEASURE Evaluation\, while holding an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He directed the World Health Organization’s work on health information and evidence for 12 years\, and has worked for bilateral donors\, national governments and research institutions\, and published extensively on AIDS\, maternal and child health\, health information systems and statistics in epidemiological\, demographic\, and public health journals.  A national of the Netherlands\, he received his medical degree from the University of Groningen\, and a PhD in Medical Demography from the University of Amsterdam. \nBoerma is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Sharon Weir. Weir is a Research Assistant Professor\, Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Weir has collaborated with UNAIDS and the World Health Organization since 2009\, co-chairing a working group to develop operational guidelines for monitoring and evaluation of HIV prevention and treatment programs for people who inject drugs\, sex workers\, men who have sex with men and transgender people. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nThe regular monitoring of key health indicators from mortality and morbidity to universal health coverage (UHC) progress is critical for the assessment of progress and performance\, the development of strategies and plans\, and the implementation of programs.  The supply of global health estimates has increased dramatically over the past decade\, with ever-increasing granularity\, supported by sophisticated statistical modeling. Countries are gradually making progress in improving their health information systems\, assisted by data digitization. How can we best bring these developments together? This presentation will focuses on the current balance between global estimates production and local data strengthening\, the new challenges of the UHC 2030 agenda\, and the progress in using health facility data for subnational monitoring. \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar \n    Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/monitoring-health-progress-from-global-estimates-to-local-health-data/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qingling Cohort Study
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 19th\, Sean Sylvia\, PhD\, will present Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qingling Cohort Study as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nSean Sylvia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Sylvia is a health and development economist whose research focuses on designing and evaluating innovative approaches to improve the delivery of health services in developing countries. His work relies heavily on fieldwork to collect primary data and most uses experimental or quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the causal effects of policies and interventions. In past and ongoing projects\, he has studied the design of performance-based incentives for providers\, school-based health and nutrition programs\, early childhood health and development\, and the quality of primary care in low-resource settings. His work has been published journals such as the BMJ\, PLOS Medicine\, the American Journal of Public Health\, Health Affairs\, and Health Policy and Planning. He has long-standing collaborations with researchers at a number of universities in China where he has directed several large-scale surveys and randomized trials. Prior to joining UNC\, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Renmin University of China. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nA growing body of cross-disciplinary research suggests that human capital deficits in early life negatively affect later life outcomes and that interventions in early childhood can substantially improve health and productivity in adulthood. Given this evidence – and growing recognition that human capital development is an important mechanism affecting the persistence of poverty and inequality – investing in early childhood has risen on the policy agenda in a number of developing countries. The goal of the Qingling cohort study is to inform ECD policies in China. Across five waves of data collection\, this study follows a cohort of more than 1800 children in rural areas of southern Shaanxi province from 6 months of age until age 5. Using this unique data\, this talk will discuss the nutritional and developmental status of rural children and its evolution in early childhood. It will also present the short and medium-term results of two embedded randomized trials: one testing the effects of micronutrient supplementation and another intervention providing parenting support through home visits by cadres from China’s Family Planning Commission. Although the effects of micronutrient supplementation subside by age 2\, we find persistent effects of the parenting intervention on cognitive outcomes. Data on parenting activities are used to explore behavioral mechanisms underlying these results. \nCurriculum Vita (PDF) \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar \n    Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/early-childhood-development-in-rural-china-evidence-from-the-qingling-cohort-study/
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SUMMARY:Hypothesizing Upward: Have U.S. State Policies Widened Inequalities in Life Expectancy?
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 26th\, Jennifer Karas Montez\, PhD\, will present Hypothesizing Upward: Have U.S. State Policies Widened Inequalities in Life Expectancy? as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Montez is a Professor of Sociology\, the Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar of Aging Studies\, and Co-Director of the Policy\, Place\, and Population Health Lab at Syracuse University. Her work examines the large and growing inequalities in U.S. adult mortality since the early 1980s. She is particularly interested in why trends in mortality have been most troubling for women\, low-educated adults\, and states in the South and Midwest.\nProfessor Montez is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Robert (Bob) Hummer. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also co-PI of the Biosocial Training Program at the Carolina Population Center. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nIn the United States\, life expectancy is increasingly being shaped by where we live and how much schooling we have completed. Why? Most speculation has focused on “micro-level” explanations\, such as individuals’ personal choices and lifestyle behaviors. This presentation will discuss the importance of macro-level explanations\, particularly U.S. state policies. Weaving together results from several recent and ongoing studies\, this presentation will build the case that the diverging policy contexts of U.S. states—resulting from decades of deregulation\, devolution of political authority from federal to state levels\, and state preemption laws—have likely played a critical role in the widening inequalities in life expectancy. \nCurriculum Vita (PDF) \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.unc.edu) by the Monday before the seminar \n    Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/hypothesizing-upward-have-u-s-state-policies-widened-inequalities-in-life-expectancy/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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