Upcoming DUPRI Seminars

Spring 2026
Date Speaker Talk Title Position Institution
1/08/2026

Isabella Bouklas

Brenda Onyango

DOHA*

DOHA*: The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Gaps in Diabetes Management Outcomes

Graduate Student, Sociology

Graduate Student, Sociology

Duke University

Duke University

1/15/2026 Michael Gurven TBA Professor of Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara
1/22/2026 Daniel Schneider A Fair Work Week: Raising the Floor on Precarious Scheduling Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy
Professor of Sociology
Harvard University
1/29/2026 Melinda Mills

TBA

Professor of Demography and Population Health
Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

Nuffield College & Oxford University

2/05/2026

Fatima Fairfax

Madeylnn Wellons

DOHA*: EHR Adoption and Healthcare Quality in the US
DOHA*

Graduate Student, Sociology

Graduate Student, Sociology

Duke University

Duke University

2/12/2026 Elizabeth Frankenberg TBA Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Director, Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health
UNC Chapel Hill
2/19/2026 Jennifer Montez Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties? Professor of Sociology
Director for the Center for Aging and Policy Studies
Syracuse University
2/26/2026 Patricia Homan TBA Raymond Flavious Bellamy Chair in Population Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology
Florida State University
3/05/2026 Renan Chicarelli Marques DOHA* Graduate Student, Sanford School of Public Policy Duke University
3/19/2026 Patricia Louie TBA Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Washington
3/26/2026 Neil Mehta TBA Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology University of Texas Medical Branch
4/02/2026 Hong Chen DOHA* Graduate Student, Sanford School of Public Policy Duke University
4/09/2026 Justin Moore TBA Professor, Implementation Science, Public Health Sciences Wake Forest University School of Medicine
4/16/2026 Samuel Arenberg TBA Assistant Professor of Economics University of Houston

*DOHA (Demography of Health and Aging) seminars are predoctoral student-led seminars.