Events

Date: December 4, 2024
Time: 11 AM-12 PM Central/12 PM-1 PM ET

Zoom Registration Link: https://myumi.ch/jZM8N

DUPRI will be hosting Chuck Huber from StataCorp on Monday, November 18 to give two talks on applied methods using Stata. The talks will be Introduction to Graphics and Creating Maps and Animated Maps.

Featuring: Tyson H. Brown, Ph.D., Duke University Advancing Aging Health Equity through Novel Measures and Models of State-Level Structural Racism: Challenges and Opportunities and Jennifer Karas Montez, Ph.D., Syracuse University U.S. State Policy Contexts and Population Health

DUPRI will be hosting an Introduction to R virtual workshop on September 27. This 4-hour training (one morning and one afternoon session) will introduce you to the R programming language for statistical computing. The class is suitable for beginners who have never used R and is geared toward users of Stata/SAS/SPSS.

Demography Daze returns for 2024! Demography Daze, an annual workshop that brings together Duke and Carolina population scholars, postdocs and students to encourage idea exchange and incentivize collaborative population research will resume this year. Carolina Population Center (CPC) will host the 10th annual Demography Daze on Friday, September 6 from 1:00PM - 5:15PM. A reception will follow. Please join us!

NextGenPop is an undergraduate pipeline program in population research that aims to increase the diversity of the population field and nurture the next generation of population scientists. It is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (R25 HD105602). NextGenPop Fellows will study population composition and change through the lens of pressing contemporary issues, including race and income inequalities, health disparities, immigration, and family change. This June, DUPRI will host 21 fellows from 19 universities across the nation for a 2-week, in-person, on-campus summer experience. The theme will be Inequality and Health.

We are thrilled to announce that general registration for SN&H ’24 is now open! The workshop will be held May 14-17 on Duke’s campus in Durham NC and we are now accepting applications for SN&H ’24 Fellowships.

DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Multilevel Modeling in R, on May 3. This 4-hour training will cover the basics of running multilevel models in R, including specification and syntax, interpretation and displaying of results, and model checking and comparison. Some prior experience using R is recommended.

We are delighted to announce the upcoming NIA-funded workshop "Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods For Health Disparities Research Related to Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias," scheduled to take place on March 11-12, 2024 at JB Duke Hotel, Durham. Registration is now open.