Events

The Social Networks and Health (SN&H) workshop, sponsored by the Duke Network Analysis Center (DNAC) and DUPRI, offers comprehensive training in network methods for health scholars. Thanks to generous support from the NIH, we offer this training completely free of charge.  

Date
5/10/2022
Time
11:00am - 4:00pm

DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Text Analysis using R, on April 20. This 4-hour training (one morning and one afternoon session) provides an introduction to computational text analysis using R.

Date
4/20/2022
Time
10:00am - 2:30pm
Venue
To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Monday, April 18.
DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Collecting Web-based Data using R, on March 16. This 4-hour training (one morning and one afternoon session) provides an introduction to collecting web-based data using R. It will cover making HTTP requests, web scraping, working with structured or scraped web data, interacting with APIs, and obtaining open data. Some prior experience using R is recommended. Session Details Date: Wednesday, March 16 Location: Erwin Mill A103 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Morning session 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM: Break 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Afternoon session Prior to the workshop, please download and install R (https://cran.r-project.org/) and RStudio (https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download/) on your computer. If you need assistance with set up, please contact Mark Yacoub at mark.yacoub@duke.edu. To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Monday, March 14.
Date
3/16/2022
Time
10:00am - 2:30pm
Venue
To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Monday, March 14.
On March 2-3, 2022, the National Institute on Aging’s Division of Behavioral and Social Research will convene a workshop with subject matter experts to discuss gaps, opportunities, and strategies for adapting individual behavior change interventions to leverage social network dynamics. The workshop will focus on how social network interventions can be leveraged to promote healthy aging, slowing of cognitive decline and prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), and improved care for persons living with AD/ADRD and their care partners. March 4 will be a closed session for workshop speakers and NIH staff.
Date
3/02/2022
Time
11:00am - 5:00pm
DUPRI will be hosting an Introduction to R virtual workshop. 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. To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Monday, February 14.
Date
2/16/2022
Time
10:00am - 2:00pm
Venue
To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Monday, February 14.
The Department of Medicine announces that Tyson Brown, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Center on Health & Society, Duke Social Science Research Institute and Inaugural Duke Presidential Fellow (2021-2022) will be the featured speaker at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Grand Rounds. His presentation is: “Toward Racial Health Equity: Critical Population Health Perspectives" and will be held on Friday, January 14, 2022, at 12:00 pm via Zoom.
Date
1/14/2022
Time
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Venue
https://medicine.duke.edu/education-and-training/continuing-medical-education/medicine-grand-rounds
DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Multilevel Modeling in R, on December 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.
Date
12/03/2021
Time
9:09am - 1:00pm
Venue
Gross Hall, Room 230E. To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Wednesday, December 1
DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Generalized Linear Models in R, on November 19. This 4-hour training will cover the basics of running GLMs in R, including specification and syntax, interpretation and displaying of results, and model checking. We will examine binary, count, and categorical models. Some prior experience using R is recommended.
Date
11/19/2021
Time
9:00am - 1:00pm
Venue
Gross Hall, Room 230E . To attend this event, you must RSVP to laura.satterfield@duke.edu no later than Wednesday, November 17
Asian American youth are outperforming all other race groups in the United States, including whites, on measures of academic achievement. What does this portend for the process of ethnic assimilation? In this talk I present findings from a study of a well-off suburban community with a large and growing Asian American population. Parents mobilize their resources to bolster their children's achievements in both academics and extracurricular activities, with Asian parents tending to prioritize academics and white parents tending to prioritize extracurriculars, especially sports. I show how tensions over the 'right' way to parent develop when Asian American youth catapult ahead of their white peers academically. That is, rather than whites and Asians assimilating, either by Asians adopting dominant 'white' parenting practices or whites adopting the strategies of Asians, parents engaged in moral boundary making to defend their parenting, despite well-known stereotypes about Asian parents being too demanding and white children being outsmarted by their Asian American peers. Ultimately, both white and Asian families alike benefit from the class segregation that keeps working class and poor families out of their town altogether, through policies designed to maintain residential segregation, and more.
Date
11/11/2021
Time
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Venue
Preregistration is required: https://tinyurl.com/WarikooNov21Duke
Springboard To Opportunities launched The Magnolia Mother’s Trust in 2018, creating an initiative that provides $1,000 cash on a monthly basis to low-income Black mothers in Jackson, Mississippi—no strings attached—for one year. Now in its third cohort, the Magnolia Mother’s Trust program has supported more than 200 families. While there had been several initiatives for a guaranteed income worldwide, this was the first that specifically targeted extremely low-income families headed by Black women living in affordable housing in the United States. Preliminary findings show significant increases in participants’ ability to pay all bills on time without support, budget more money for food and household costs, save money for an emergency, and purchase health insurance for their family. Since its founding in 2017, the Economic Security Project (ESP) has been at the forefront of the national conversation around guaranteed income. ESP’s support helped launch the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, the first ever mayor-led pilot in the nation that provided 125 Stockton residents with $500 monthly payments for two years. This pilot laid the foundation for the creation of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income and similar guaranteed income initiatives in cities across the country. ESP has also fought for meaningful cash programs in the policy arena through its work advocating for expansion and modernization of the Earned Income Tax Credit, recurring stimulus checks during COVID-19, and codifying the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit. Learn more from Foster and Nyandoro about how findings from their work provide the foundation to make permanent the Biden Administration’s expansion of the Child Tax Credit, and how that could be a stepping stone for a full federal guaranteed income program.
Date
11/09/2021
Time
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Venue
Location: Zoom; please register in advance