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 13-17, 2019. It introduces attendees to topics in social networks, and how they can be applied to research on health.
The Social Networks and Health workshop will cover topics in social network analysis related to studying health behaviors, including:
- Data collection
- Ego network analysis
- Diffusion and peer influence
- Communities in networks
- Respondent-driven sampling
- Network visualizations
- Statistical Models for networks (ERGM, AMEN, SOAM)
- Agent-based modeling
The workshop will also contain a substantial lab component, which will give attendees an opportunity to learn how to use the R statistical computing language to analyze networks. Last year’s presentations and labs are available in the right column.
Speakers include:
- Michelle Birkett, Northwestern University
- Kathleen Mullan Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Jeff Lienert, University of Pennsylvania
- James Moody, Duke University
- Peter J. Mucha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Brea L. Perry, Indiana University
- Craig Rawlings, Duke University
- Rich Rothenberg, Georgia State University
- David R. Schaefer, University of California, Irvine
- Ashton M. Verdery, Pennsylvania State University
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