The recent Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, held in Atlanta from April 6-9, featured presentations and posters from numerous DUPRI scholars and students. At this year's PAA, DUPRI scholars and students were well-represented, with a total of 25 faculty, postdocs, and students presenting papers and posters and serving as chairs and discussants. Below, we highlight the papers presented by DUPRI affiliates.
- Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease in the Context of Aging: Findings From Applications of Biodemographic Models
Konstantin Arbeev, Duke University; Olivia Bagley, Duke University; Arseniy Yashkin, Duke University; Hongzhe Duan, Duke University; Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Svetlana Ukraintseva, Duke University; Anatoliy Yashin, Duke University
- Genetics of Aging-Related Cognitive Decline: Roles of MicroRNA-by-Gene Interactions in Alzheimer’s Disease
Anatoliy Yashin, Duke University; Dequing Wu, Duke University; Konstantin Arbeev, Duke University; Olivia Bagley, Duke University; Matt Duan, Duke University; Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Arseniy Yashkin, Duke University; Svetlana Ukraintseva, Duke University
- “You’ve Got a Lot to Prove” or “It’s Not a Hard Process”: Experiences Gaining Access to Medicaid in Older Adulthood
Sarah Petry, Duke University
- Scholastic Dreams: Future Expectations and Outcomes of Education Among Post-Tsunami Youth in Indonesia
Rene Iwo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Elizabeth Frankenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Duncan Thomas, Duke University
- Measuring and Modeling Years of Life Lost Due to COVID-19
Scott Lynch, Duke University; Christina Kamis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Social Networks and Psychological Well-being of Chinese Immigrants in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yingzhi Xu, Duke University; Giovanna Merli, Duke University; Theodore Mouw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Trump Voting and Fertility Change During the Pandemic in Florida
Heather Rackin, Louisiana State University; Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University; Courtney Williams
- Changes to the Composition of Births and Birth Outcomes in Texas, USA, Following Changes in the State-Level Funding of Family Planning Clinics
Allison Stolte, Duke University
- Connections Between Birth Order, Birth Spacing, and Child Maltreatment: Population-Level Estimates
Anna Rybinska, Duke University; Yu Bai, Duke University; W. Benjamin Goodman, Duke University; Kenneth A. Dodge, Duke University
- Antenatal Care-Seeking and the Role of Informa-tional Support From Women’s Social Networks: Qualitative Evidence From Pregnant Women in Uganda
Alison Comfort, University of California, San Francisco; Alison El Ayadi, University of California, San Francisco; Carol Camlin, UCSF Dept. of Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences; Alexander Tsai, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Hadija Nalubwama, Makerere University College of Health Sciences; Josaphat Byamugisha, Makerere University College of Health Sciences; Dilys Walker, University of California, San Francisco; Julian Adong, Mbarara University of Science and Technology; James Moody, Duke University; Tatyana Roberts, University of California, San Francisco; Cynthia Harper, University of California, San Francisco
- Education in the Jim Crow South and Black–White Inequities in Allostatic Load Among Older Adults
Katrina Walsemann, University of Maryland, College Park and the Maryland Population Research Center; Jay Pearson, Duke University; Emily Abbruzzi, University of Maryland, College Park
- A New Approach for Quantifying Structural Racism and Discrimination With an Application to Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Arseniy Yashkin, Duke University; Julia Kravchenko
- Sick and Tired of Being Excluded: Structural Racism in Disenfranchisement as a Threat to Population Health Equity
Patricia Homan, Florida State University; Tyson Brown, Duke University
- The Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Youth’s Expectations and Aspirations
Garrett Baker, Duke University
- The Consequences of Disabilities in Late Middle Age for Well-being
Emily Wiemers, Syracuse University; V. Joseph Hotz, Duke University; Scott Abrahams; Anna Wiersma Strauss, Syracuse University
- Causes of Racial Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Arseniy Yashkin, Duke University; Stanislav Kolpakov Nikitin, Duke University; Julia Kravchenko
- Renters, State Eviction Bans, and Mental Health: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Courtney Boen, University of Pennsylvania; Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University; Lisa Keister, Duke University; Anneliese Luck, University of Pennsylvania
- Forecasting Prevalence and Mortality of Alzheimer’s Disease Using the Partitioning Models
Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Arseniy Yashkin, Duke University; Mikhail Kovtun, Duke University; Julia Kravchenko; Konstantin Arbeev, Duke University; Anatoliy Yashin, Duke University
- Satellites, Fires, and COVID Deaths in India
Harlan Downs-Tepper, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy
- Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly as a Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Short-Term or Long-Term Risk?
Arseniy Yashkin, Duke University; Igor Akushevich, Duke University; Galina Gorbunova; Anatoliy Yashin, Duke University
- Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment Remains High and Starkly Unequal in the United States
Alexander Roehrkasse, Duke University; Christopher Wildeman, Duke University
- Genetic-Related Mechanisms Generating Racial Disparity Between White and Black Americans in Alzheimer’s Disease
Stanislav Kolpakov Nikitin, Duke University; Igor Akushevich, Duke University