If you asked Jenny Tung’s parents, “no one’s kids that they knew of went off to Africa every summer to look at monkeys.” But Tung has been doing just that since her first trip to Kenya in 2006 to study the wild baboons of Amboseli.
Duke and USC researchers propose the Alzheimer’s Disease Exposome to address gaps in understanding how environmental factors interact with genetics to increase or reduce risk for the disease.
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9/10/2019
The Add Health Parent Data User Study Workshop occurred on August 14-15, and the Triangle Area's Social and Biological Determinants of Health (SBDoH) Working Group meeting was held on August 22-23
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9/06/2019
DUPRI Scholars Scott Lynch and Matt Dupre recently received an NIH/R21 award to study the social determinants of access to care and 30-day readmission in older adults with heart failure. Funded by the National Institute on Aging, the research builds on their work examining how barriers to routine medical care lead to poor outcomes in those living with heart disease.
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9/06/2019
Professor Jane Waldfogel, Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children's and Youth Problems, Columbia School of Social Work and Co-director of the Columbia Population Research Center, kicks off our DUPRI Fall 2019 Seminar Serie
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8/22/2019
Last week, the Population Association of America (PAA) announced its elected Officers for 2020. DUPRI's M.
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8/12/2019
Demography of Aging was published in 1994 as the United States and the rest of the world faced the challenge of aging populations. Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, it offered authoritative research on the emerging field of demography of aging.
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7/29/2019
Each year since 2007, The Journal of Technometrics awards their prestigious Eric Ziegel prize to the authors of the best book reviewed in their journal.
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6/26/2019
Elizabeth Jane Costello, PhD, was recognized as one of five 2019 distinguished Emeriti Faculty Honorees on June 4, 2019 at the Washington Duke Inn. Dr.
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6/14/2019
The Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA) at Duke University, in collaboration with the Carolina Population Center (CPC), will be hosting a Data User Workshop for the Add Health Parents Study (AHPS) on August 14-15, 2019 at Duke University. To express interest in attendance, email AHPSWorkshop2019@duke.edu by June 15, 2019.
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6/05/2019