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Craig Hadley: Food insecurity and mental wellbeing: What role does culture play in explaining the association?

On March 26, 2021, Craig Hadley, Winship Distinguished Research Professor at Emory University, will present "Food insecurity and mental wellbeing: What role does culture play in explaining the association?" as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members.

Margaret Sheridan: Deprivation and threat, testing conceptual model of adversity exposure and developmental outcomes

On April 9, 2021, Margaret Sheridan, an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present "Deprivation and threat, testing conceptual model of adversity exposure and developmental outcomes" as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. 

Transgender women’s perceptions of HIV cure-related research

On Monday, April 12th at 9am Pacific /12pm Eastern, the lead author of that article, Dr. Tonia Poteat, will discuss with us the results from this qualitative investigation into transgender women's perceptions of HIV cure-related research. Please register for this … Read more

The Gendered Navigation of Work and Family Life through Social Upheaval

“The Gendered Navigation of Work and Family Life through Social Upheaval” Wednesday, April 14th 1:00-2:00pm EST   Zoom Link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/92253738104   Abstract: The 1900 generation became adults in the prosperous 1920s and then lived through the Great Depression and World … Read more

Ross Boyce: Geography as Destiny: Malaria in the Highlands of Western Uganda

On April 16, 2021, Ross Boyce, a Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, will present "Geography as Destiny: Malaria in the Highlands of Western Uganda" as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2020-21 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This year, the CPC Interdisciplinary Research Seminars will be open to both CPC members and Social Epidemiology program members.

Nancy Krieger: COVID-19, structural racism, embodied histories, and the two-edged sword of data: structural problems require structural solutions

On April 23, 2021, Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will present "TBD" as part of the Carolina Population Center's 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.

CANCELED: Michael H. Esposito: Racism and Quantitative Counterfactual Inference: Historical and Life-Course Examples

Carolina Square Room 2002 123 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC

This event has been canceled and will be rescheduled for the spring semester. On August 27, 2021, Michael H. Esposito, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, will present "Racism and Quantitative Counterfactual Inference: Historical and Life-Course … Read more

Colloquium: Alexis Dennis, UNC Sociology Odum Award Winner

Racial Differences in the Influence of Socioeconomic Resources on Depressive Symptomatology across the Early Life Course. Prior scholarship documents that having more socioeconomic resources is associated with better mental health. Yet, accumulating work shows that Black Americans do not consistently … Read more