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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
Linda Burton, co-editor: “The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty” (Oxford University Press)

Linda Burton, dean of the social sciences and a professor of sociology, examines poverty from a worldwide, interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors discuss the leading theories and conceptual...

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...
Building a Network of Scholars

Our social networks have incredible implications for our health. James Moody is helping build a network of social network analysis scholars who can tackle these important areas of research.
Celebrating Six Years of Demography Daze

Carolina and Duke may be rivals in sports, but when it comes to research the two institutions are often collaborating on cutting edge work. For the Sixth Annual Demography Daze, UNC's Carolina...