Social Epidemiology Research Seminar

Spring 2016

Wednesdays, 12:20 – 1:10 PM, 1305 McGavran-Greenberg Hall

Date Presenter Topic/Title
01/13/2016 Anissa Vines
Research Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Discrimination Among Latinos
01/20/2016 Liz Lawrence
Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Race/Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Obesity: The Role of Education
01/27/2016 Erline Miller and Evette Cordoba
Doctoral Students, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Financial stressors during the Great Recession and increases in interleukin-6 levels

and

Neighborhood quality and mental health in the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study

02/03/2016 Libby McClure and Julia Ward
Doctoral Students, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Neighborhood exposure assessments

and

Intergenerational educational attainment and depressive symptoms in a Latino community

02/10/2016 Marissa Seamans
Doctoral Student, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Social networks and large databases for evaluating prescription drug use within families and spillover effects involving children
02/17/2016 Brian Pence
Associate Professor, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Childhood Trauma and Health Outcomes in HIV-Infected Patients: An Exploration of Causal Pathways
02/24/2016 Jennifer Yourkavitch
Doctoral Student, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Neighborhood deprivation and breastfeeding practices in New Jersey
03/02/2016 Jana Hirsch
Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center
The built environment and health
03/09/2016 Nick King
Associate Professor, McGill University Departments of Social Studies of Medicine and Epidemiology
The (F)utility of the Social
03/16/2016 Spring Break
03/23/2016 Whitney Robinson
Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Modification versus population burden in Population Inequalities Research
03/30/2016 Rebecca Stebbins and Mike Dolan Fliss
Doctoral Students, UNC Department of Epidemiologyy
Socioeconomic Disparities and Toxoplasmosis in the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study

and

Race disparities in a police stop/search dataset

04/06/2016 Nat MacNell
Doctoral Student, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Historical social traumas and present-day environmental exposures: the influence of slavery on the locations of North Carolina’s industrial livestock operations.
04/13/2016 Lauren Gaydosh
Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Childhood Family Instability and Adult Health
04/20/2016 Stephanie Delong
Doctoral Student, UNC Department of Epidemiology
Intimate Partner Violence and HIV
04/27/2016 Jaime Mirowsky
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Curriculum in Toxicology
Neighborhood SES and Health

For more information, please contact Lydia Feinstein (lfeinst@email.unc.edu) or Allison Aiello (aaiello@email.unc.edu).