Events

The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Minority Student Caucus invite you to attend the 33rd Annual Minority Health Conference, “Translational Research: The Road from Efficacy to Equity".

Date
1/16/2012 - 1/16/2012
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm

The American Public Health Association is now accepting abstracts for the 140th APHA Annual Meeting. The theme of the meeting is: Prevention and Wellness Across the Lifespan. Click for more info. 

Date
1/10/2012 - 1/10/2012
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm

This week, on Tuesday May 3 and Wednesday May 4 DuPRI is holding its First International Biodemography Network Meeting at Duke’s Thomas Conference Center. The two-day meeting, focused on topics in mortality, aging and longevity covers very recent research on both humans and animals.

Date
4/25/2011 - 4/25/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Developing Countries: A micro-empirical approach (AMID), Marie Curie Initial Training Network are joining forces this year to host a De

Date
4/17/2011 - 4/17/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm

The Twentieth BREAD Conference on Development Economics will be held on 23-24 September, 2011, in Paris, France. It will be sponsored by Actors, Markets and Institutions in Development Countries (AMID) and the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR).

Date
4/17/2011 - 4/17/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm

The International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN) is an organization founded in 1993, with the objective of encouraging economists and policymakers to discuss issues of AIDS and economics.

Date
4/04/2011 - 4/04/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm

This graduate-level course explores the theory and the method of ethnography through critiques and class discussions of exemplar ethnographies. The heart of the course is practice in learning how to do field work, write good field notes, and analyze data.

This seminar will survey the research literature in three areas of the demography of aging: (1) biodemography, (2) medical demography, and (3) social demography.

This is an introductory course to the techniques used to investigate a number of important population processes which have major implications for global health and health inequalities, and public policy: population change (growth and decline), fertility change and patterns, population health and

Survey methods and practice draw on statistics, psychology, sociology, computer science, and economics. This course introduces the student to principles of survey design and to practical issues in execution across different types of population.