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SUMMARY:A Large-Scale Binational Survey of International Migrants from Rural Bangladesh
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 1\, Randall Kuhn\, PhD\, will present A Large-Scale Binational Survey of International Migrants from Rural Bangladesh as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nRandall Kuhn is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health\, program evaluation\, global health\, immigrant health and homelessness. In Bangladesh\, he leads a 35-year evaluation of the effects of randomized child and reproductive health interventions on health and socioeconomic change across generations. He also leads a binational survey of the health and well-being of guest workers and their left-behind families. His cross-national research explores the effectiveness of global health policies and the role of improvements in health as a driver of social and political change. Kuhn’s methodological expertise includes longitudinal data analysis\, experimental and quasi-experimental research design\, forecasting\, and integrated data systems. Kuhn founded the Goal 18 campaign for inclusive UN Sustainable Development Goals. \nKuhn 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. \nFriday\, Feb 1\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nThis study uses three rounds of survey data on respondents from the Matlab area of Bangladesh to compare the health of international migrants\, interviewed in person and by phone\, to that of non-migrants and internal migrants drawn from the same sample. To our knowledge\, this is the largest binational panel study of migrant health yet conducted. We control for baseline conditions\, account for self-selection and address the role of country of destination\, return migration and duration. Results from a 2012-14 survey of migrants and non-migrants find that migrants fare better on measures of health that are reflective of self-selection (i.e. general health\, smoking\, positive dimensions of mental health). Migrants fare better or no worse on acute risks associated with the migration process such as mortality and injury. Yet they fare moderately worse on emerging chronic health factors such as obesity\, hypertension and negative dimensions of mental health. These findings point to a model of health capital\, in which migrants’ unique physical and emotional gifts are gradually eroded by the insults of the migration process. The seminar will include emerging results from a 2017-18 follow-up survey of migrants that explores the specific role of migrant recruitment\, finance\, social networks\, occupational risk and context of integration in explaining migrant health trajectories. \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@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/a-large-scale-binational-survey-of-international-migrants-from-rural-bangladesh/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Frontiers in Women's Nutrition: Agenda for Research and Action
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 8\, Parul Christian\, DrPH\, MSc\, will present Frontiers in Women’s Nutrition: Agenda for Research and Action as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nParul Christian leads the Women’s Nutrition portfolio as Senior Program Officer on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Nutrition Program Team in Global Development. She is also Professor of International Health and Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Christian’s nutrition research has contributed policy relevant knowledge related to the impact of maternal and infant/child nutrition interventions in improving pregnancy-related outcomes\, including fetal growth\, maternal and infant health and survival\, child growth\, as well as long-term outcomes of child cognition\, and cardiometabolic risk. \nChristian is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Margaret E. Bentley. Bentley is the Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Nutrition\, Associate Dean for Global Health\, and Associate Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nFriday\, Feb 8\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nWomen and girls hold roles in their communities that make them drivers of development as individuals\, and influencers of the health and well-being of their families. To equip women and girls to succeed in school\, maximize work productivity and have their own healthy children in the future\, they must receive the appropriate nutrition right from the start. In this way\, well-nourished girls and women can achieve their potential and meaningfully contribute to their communities. Globally\, about 23 million children are born small-for-gestational age (SGA)\, 15 million are preterm birth\, and around 160 million children are stunted by the end of the first two years of life. Maternal underweight\, short stature\, inadequate pregnancy weight gain\, and micronutrient deficiencies contribute to the high burden of SGA\, which is associated with an increased risk of infant mortality\, childhood stunting\, and poor neurodevelopment. Efficacious nutritional interventions during pregnancy include supplementation with balanced energy-protein\, iron-folic acid\, and multiple micronutrients. However\, constraints exist in the availability of nutritious food products that can be used for supplementing women\, requiring more research on product development. More research is also needed to fully combat the problem of adverse pregnancy outcomes of preterm birth\, pre-eclampsia (PE)\, and stillbirth. For example\, low dose calcium may work to reduce the risk of PE\, which is currently hard to implement in large scale programs due to cost and adherence barriers. Risk factors such as maternal young age\, prepregnancy underweight and stunting\, and prevention \n/treatment of maternal infections require new and multi-pronged strategies in adolescence and preconception; addressing these in part may alleviate a significant burden of fetal growth failure and preterm birth. Data show that growth failure in the first 6 months of life is high in part related to small birth size\, but maternal nutritional support during lactation may also be important. Thus\, there is an overwhelming need to combine implementation learning with new research to impact the nutritional wellbeing of pregnant and lactating women\, women of reproductive age\, and young girls – a neglected agenda in low and middle income settings. The talk will highlight the priorities and new frontiers in women’s nutrition. \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@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/frontiers-in-womens-nutrition-agenda-for-research-and-action/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Methods Seminar: An Overview of Autoregressive\, Latent Growth Curve\, and ALT Models for Longitudinal Data
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 15\, Kenneth Bollen\, PhD\, will present An Overview of Autoregressive\, Latent Growth Curve\, and ALT Models for Longitudinal Data: CPC Research Methods Seminar as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nProfessor Bollen is the Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor\, Psychology & Neuroscience and Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on developing statistical methodology with applications across a range of population and health areas. His expertise on latent variable structural equation models provides a means to control for measurement error when testing hypotheses. As a statistical consultant for CPC\, Bollen provides statistical advice for many CPC Fellows and students. \nFriday\, Feb 15\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nA wide variety of models are applied to analyze longitudinal data.  This seminar provides an overview of three popular ones: the latent growth curve (LGC)\, the autoregressive (AR)\, and the autoregressive latent trajectory (ALT) longitudinal models.  The seminar presents each model and discusses their parameters and interpretation.  I use an empirical example to illustrate each model and how to program them using structural equation modeling software.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/research-methods-seminar-an-overview-of-autoregressive-latent-growth-curve-and-alt-models-for-longitudinal-data/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 22\, Colter Mitchell\, PhD will present Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nMitchell is Research Assistant Professor of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and is a Faculty Associate of the University of Michigan Population Studies Center. \nMitchell is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Guang Guo. Guo is Dr. George and Alice Welsh Distinguished Professor of Sociology. Guo is a CPC Training Program Alum: he was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1991-1993. \nProfessor Mitchell is part of an NIH initiative to explore social epigenomics related to health disparities. \nFriday\, Feb 22\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nMeasures of social disadvantage such as poverty\, parental incarceration\, and family instability have well documented health and behavioral consequences for children\, which can even reach into adulthood. Social disadvantage likely operates through both social and biological mechanisms; however\, only in the last decade and a half have we seen a rapid increase in the integration of social science and biology. I investigate biological correlates of social disadvantage using the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study (n=4898)\, a population-based sample of children born in hospitals in 20 cities in the US. Families have been studied at birth and ages 1\,3\,5\,9\, and 15\, with additions of genetic\, epigenetic\, and neuroimaging data collected more recently. Due to the study design the sample is racially and ethnically diverse and has lower SES levels than most large national studies— making it exceptionally rare within biosocial research. Of particular interest here are the correlations with genomic (polygenic scores\, and changes in epigenetic profiles and telomere length) and functional and structural neuroimaging measures with the effect of cumulative disadvantage and timing of social disadvantage.   \nResearch project: “Epigenetic Mediation of Adverse Social Context on Stress Response\, Socioemotional Development\, and Health in a Population-based Study of Minority and Low SES Children and Adolescents” \nSelected publications
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/biological-mediators-and-moderators-of-social-disadvantage/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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