On Friday, October 4, DUPRI's William Pan will present “Dying for Gold: Health, Environmental, and Social impacts of Artisanal Gold Mining” as part of the Carolina Population Series 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
Date
10/04/2019
Time
12:00pm - 1:00pm
DUPRI Research Scholar Terrie Moffit, Co-hosts Signe Hald Andersen lecture on September 17, at 4pm,, Suite 401, Grey House, Erwin Mill Complex, 2020 West Main Street, Durham, NC
Date
9/17/2019
Time
4:00pm - 5:00pm
An interdisciplinary meeting of researchers will convene at Duke to discuss current research on the social and biological determinants of health and aging.
Date
8/22/2019
Time
8:30am - 9:30am
The Duke University Population Research Institute (DUPRI) in collaboration with UNC-CH’s Carolina Population Center (CPC) are co-hosting an Add Health Par
Date
8/14/2019
Time
8:30am - 9:30am
This free Brain Health Conference Workshop provides an update on the most recent research about dementia treatment and prevention strategies with specific presentations about current research projects. There will be opportunities to learn about research access for community members and how to join the new NC Registry for Brain Health to advance overall brain health & brain health research across the State.
Date
6/28/2019
Time
9:00am - 2:30pm
The NC Summit on Child Health will bring together child health researchers and state policy leaders to build partnerships and identify analytic priorities that can inform policies that impact child health and well-being, and to design a data-driven road map for improving child health in NC.
Date
6/07/2019
Time
9:00am - 2:30pm
The Duke Network Analysis Center (DNAC) and the Duke Population Research Institute, with support from the NICHD, will be hosting the third, week-long Social Networks and Health workshop from May 14 – 18, 2018. It introduces attendees to topics in social networks, and how they can be applied to research on health.
Date
5/13/2019
Time
8:30am - 9:30am
The North Carolina Government Data Analytics Center (GDAC), which maintains state datasets that encompass criminal justice, child safety, fraud and compliance, healthcare, longitudinal and performance data, and enterprise data will host a workshop, co-sponsored by the Duke University Population
Date
4/25/2019
Time
9:00am - 10:00am
Duke's Biodemography of Aging Research Unit (BARU) is hosting the the Duke-NIH Workshop "Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods for Health Disparities Research Related to Aging" assembling a broad array of experts including Carl Hill, NIA Office of Special Populations.
The objective of the Workshop is to improve the understanding of how existing analytic methods and data can be leveraged to make progress in understanding the causes and mechanisms of health-related disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease, related dementias and other prominent age-related diseases. Discussion will cover a range of academic and administrative topics.
Date
2/26/2019
Time
8:00am - 9:00am
Venue
Erwin Mill
DUPRI will be hosting an Introduction to Cloud Computing workshop. This workshop will provide an overview and demonstration of various cloud computing resources available within and outside of Duke. You will learn how to provision and access virtual machines using Duke's Research Toolkits (including specialized offerings for DUPRI affiliates), VCM/VM-Manage, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. The workshop will also cover basic parallelization of code for more efficient computation, with a focus on R. Some previous knowledge of R is helpful but not required.
Date
1/23/2019
Time
9:00am - 10:00am