Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?
Speaker
Jennifer Montez
Professor of Sociology
Director for the Center for Aging and Policy Studies
Syracuse University
Linking Disaster-Driven Destruction and Reconstruction to Population Health Outcomes over Two Decades
Speaker
Elizabeth Frankenberg
Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Director, Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health
UNC Chapel Hill
EHR Adoption and Healthcare Quality in the US
Speaker
Fatima Fairfax
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
Peer Influence on Health Behaviors: Structure, Norms, Support and Social Control
Speaker
Madeylnn Wellons
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
What Population-Wide Data and Our Future Health UK Reveal About Families, Health, and Bias
Speaker
Melinda Mills
Professor of Demography & Population Health
Director Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
University of Oxford and Nuffield College
Racial Residential Segregation and Cognition Across the Lifecourse
Speaker
Isabella Bouklas
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
Abstract
Housing segregation can act as a force to reproduce racial/ethnic health inequities. Using longitudinal data from the Americans' Changing Lives study, I examine the relationship between racial/ethnic residential segregation and cognitive impairment over six waves.
Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer
Speaker
Michael Gurven
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbara
A Fair Work Week: Raising the Floor on Precarious Scheduling
Speaker
Daniel Schneider
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy & Professor of Sociology
Harvard University
The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Gaps in Diabetes Management Outcomes
Speaker
Brenda Onyango
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
From Gateways to New Destinations: How Arrival Cohorts and Country of Origin Shape Asian American Health Disparities in the United States
Speaker
Lindsay Xu
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University