Events

Researchers from the Parenting Across Cultures longitudinal study will present their findings on the effects of the pandemic, health-compromising and risky behaviors, education, work, and intimate partnerships during this half-day conference.

Date
10/20/2022 - 10/20/2022
Time
9:00am - 12:00pm
Venue
Sanford 223, Rhodes Conference Room

DUPRI will be hosting Chuck Huber from StataCorp on Tuesday, October 4 to give three talks on applied methods using Stata. The talks will be Introduction to Mediation Analysis, Multilevel/Longitudinal Modeling, and Latent Class Analysis. In addition to the talks, lunch will be provided.

Date
10/04/2022 - 10/04/2022
Time
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue
Gross Hall, Room 230E

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 - 5/12/2022
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 - 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 - 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 - 3/03/2022
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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