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The Add Health Study/Parents Phase 2 Data Release

The Add Health Parent Study, a Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI) and the Carolina Population Center (CPC) collaborative data collection initiative, funded by the National Institute on Aging...
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HEALTH 2017

The 2017 Social Networks and Health workshop is a week-long workshop that will introduce attendees to topics in social networks, and how they can be applied to research on health.
Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Awards Research Fellowships to 35 Scholars for Important Work in the Social Sciences and Humanities

One of our own: Christopher A Bail, a DUPRI Faculty member from the Sociology department, has won this prestigious award.
Save The Date For 'Predict My Future' Documentary Screening

Predict My Future reveals the answers to one of life's most fundamental questions: what makes us who we are?
New BARU Book On Aging Out Now

Jenny Tung wants to know how social stresses mess with genes

This article appeared in Science News Being low on the pecking order often means poorer health — but why?
Twitter’s Flawed Solution to Political Polarization

This article appeared in The New York Times "Opinion" On social media, encountering opposing views can make people become even more wedded to their own. By Christopher A. Bail
Can social rank impact human health? She says yes

By Viviane Callier Jenny Tung first traveled to East Africa in 2006 to study the wild baboons of Amboseli, Kenya. She remembers being surprised at how big they were, noting, “They are so human to me...
Does Medical Expansion Improve Population Health?

Newswise — Washington, DC—The escalating influence of modern biomedical conceptions of health and illness—increasingly going beyond traditional medical illness to “explain” behavioral problems and...
Two psychologists followed 1000 New Zealanders for decades.

Here’s what they found about how childhood shapes later life By Douglas Starr In 1987, Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt, two postdocs in psychology, had adjacent displays at the poster session of...