Events

The Milken Institute Global Conference convenes the best minds in the world to tackle its most urgent challenges and to help realize its most exciting opportunities. It is a unique experience in which individuals with the capital, power, and influence to change the world connect with those whose expertise and creativity are reinventing health, finance, technology, philanthropy, industry, and media. The 24th annual Global Conference will center on the theme, “Charting a New Course.” In recent months, the impact of social crisis, economic dislocation, and global pandemic has called us to reflect on how we live, what we believe, and what matters most
Date
10/20/2021
Time
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue
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Considerable research documents higher levels of depressive symptoms among Black Americans relative to whites. Yet, we know little about the role of other dimensions of race (e.g., skin tone) and early life contexts (e.g., childhood racial contexts) in shaping trajectories of depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood. This study asks: 1) to what extent do self-identified race and skin tone shape disparities in depressive symptoms between Black and white adults across ages 12-42? 2) Do the relationships between race/skin tone and depressive symptoms depend on school racial context, as measured by the racial composition of middle and high schools? This study uses five waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and employs growth curve models to address these questions. Overall, results suggest that trajectories of depressive symptoms across ages 12-42 vary by race and skin tone among Black adults. Further, racial and skin tone disparities in depressive symptom trajectories are contingent on school racial context, highlighting competing advantages and disadvantages of navigating majority spaces in early life for Black adults of different skin tones. Findings and implications will be discussed in more detail.
Date
10/08/2021
Time
1:15pm - 2:15pm
Venue
Zoom:  https://DUKE.ZOOM.US/J/99606515742
DUPRI will be hosting a virtual workshop, “Working with Big Data, SQL, and Cloud Computing using R”, on September 22. This 2-hour training provides an introduction to working with remote structured databases, performing SQL queries, and accessing and using cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Compute Engine. The training will focus specifically on the R programming language. Some prior experience using R is recommended.
Date
9/22/2021
Time
10:00am - 12:00pm
Venue
To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Monday, September 20.
This talk explores racial disparities in mortality during U.S. pandemics, using the 1918 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 20thcentury, 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 2020-21. 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: white mortality during the COVID pandemic has likely still been lower than Black mortality has ever been. 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.
Date
9/17/2021
Time
1:15pm - 2:15pm
Venue
Zoom https://duke.zoom.us/j/92372433043

“Using the NIA Health Disparities Framework to Optimize Equity in Aging Research” featuring Patricia Jones, Director, Special Populations, NIH/NIA, Tyson Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University, Kimberly Johnson, Professor of Medicine, Duke University

Date
5/21/2021
Time
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Venue
Registration: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkd-2gqzsqGddLkvZaJUpkJK-TEEVsJt5Z
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that factors such as age and pre-existing conditions intersect with socioeconomic and demographic characteristics—such as race-ethnicity, gender, and income—to influence both the onset and severity of the disease, as well as its trajectory. Not only has the pandemic laid bare stark differences in health and mortality for different groups of people, but also dramatic inequalities in outcomes such as education, work, family dynamics, and mental health. In this briefing, population scientists will share research findings on the disparate impacts of COVID and what additional research and data are needed to understand and address its far-reaching effects.
Date
4/23/2021
Time
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue
https://www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-web1/2021/03/30/congressional-briefing-demographic-insights-into-c
DUPRI will be hosting a virtual workshop, Text Analysis using R, on April 14. This 4-hour training (one morning and one afternoon session) provides an introduction to text analysis using R. It will cover data import and formatting, cleaning and prepping documents, data visualization, exploratory analysis, basic network analysis, and topic modeling. Some prior experience using R is recommended.
Date
4/14/2021
Time
10:00am - 2:30pm
Venue
To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Friday, April 9.
Restricting their ability to establish connections with majority groups  or to access novel information. In this talk, I show how this phenomenon  is manifested in a variety of online and face-to-face social networks  and what societal consequences it has on the visibility and ranking of  minorities. I propose a network model with tunable homophily and group  sizes and demonstrate how the ranking of nodes is affected by homophilic  behavior. I will discuss the implications of this research on algorithms  and perception biases.
Date
4/13/2021
Time
1:15pm - 2:30pm
Venue
We hope you'll join us! Zoom:  http://tinyurl.com/DukeCSSKarimi
Hedwig (Hedy) received her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. After receiving her PhD, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan from 2009 to 2011. She holds a courtesy joint appointment at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at WUSTL and is a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is also an Associate Director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity & Equity. She currently serves on the research advisory board for the Vera Institute of Justice and the board for the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: Health Disparities | Race and Ethnicity | Gender | Family | Policing and Social Control
Date
4/09/2021
Time
1:15pm - 2:30pm
Venue
ZOOM-HTTPS://DUKE.ZOOM.US/J/93154827891 PASSCODE SOCAPR09
DuPRI will be hosting a virtual workshop, Collecting Web-based Data using R, on March 24. This 4-hour training (one morning and one afternoon session) provides an introduction to collecting web-based data using R. It will cover making HTTP requests, web scraping, working with structured or scraped web data, interacting with APIs, and obtaining open data. Some prior experience using R is recommended.
Date
3/24/2021
Time
10:00am - 2:30pm
Venue
Please contact laura.satterfield@duke.edu to RSVP before March 19, 2021