Seminar Series

(joint with Sanford School of Public Policy) "Supercentenarians and the Theory of Heterogeneity" *Please note room: Rubenstein Hall 200, Sanford The Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI), an affiliate of SSRI, is dedicated to the conceptual unification of the demographic sciences. We host a regular Thursday afternoon speaker series presenting innovative research during the academic year that all members of the Duke community are invited to attend.

"The Great Migration and Mortality of African Americans" Two inextricably linked phenomena lie at the heart of African American social history in the twentieth century: The first is "black-white economic convergenc, that accompanied the decline in discriminatory barriers and narrowing of the black-white gap in human capital. The second is "the great migration" the movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest, and West. This talk will examine Black white differences in earnings within specific locations.

Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects those from Duke and area universities with nationally-recognized experts to explore critical issues in the field of global health. This lecture is also part of the DUPRI seminar series.

EXTENDED COHORT-COMPONENT APPROACH FOR HOUSEHOLDS PROJECTION AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVELS This paper discusses the five core ideas of the extended cohort-component method known as ProFamy for simultaneously forecasting of family households, living arrangements and population.

"Consider the Possiblities!" Ethnography and Collaborative Family Research Opportunities at DuPRISSRI at Duke University currently houses two of the largest longitunal ethnographic datasets on poverty and family life in the country: Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study and the Family Life Project. In this presentation, I will describe the datasets in great detail and discuss opportunities for secondary analysis of these data and for research collaborations which might involve integrating ethnographic and survey data analysis.

"Family Disruption in Sweden: New Possibilities and Preliminary Results from Administrative Registers" Nordic data registers are a source of longitudinal life histories for entire populations. Particularly problematic for family scholars is the fact that no register exists for cohabiting partnerships. A new database, Sweden in Time: Activities and Relations (STAR), includes information to estimate cohabitation, and thus separation of cohabiters, when partners have a child together.

(joint with DGHI)"Maximizing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of HIV and STI Interventions"Garnett is Professor of Microparasite Epidemiology at Imperial College London. His main area ofresearch is the epidemiology and control of sexually transmitted infections. His recent work has focused onthe potential impact of HPV vaccines, the epidemiological consequences of antiretroviral treatments and theevaluation of HIV Prevention programs.

This talk will present the theoretical foundations, study design, and research findings of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, or Add Health. Add Health is a national representative study of more than 20,000 adolescents in 1995 who have been followed over time through their transition to early adulthood. The most recent wave of data collection in 2008 expanded collection of biological data to study social, behavioral, and biological linkages in health and developmental trajectories in young adulthood.

Mortality is being postponed at older ages. This finding, documented in 1994 and bolstered since, is a fundamental discovery about the biology of human ageing, a discovery with profound implications for individuals, society and the economy. Remarkably, the rate of deterioration with age seems to be constant across individuals and over time: it appears that death is being delayed because people are reaching older ages in better health.

Many studies have found a positive relationship between cognitive ability, as measured in childhood or youth, and subsequent survival, and several explanations of this have been offered, ranging from the idea that low ability is an indicator of adverse systemic events in infancy or childhood to the idea that high cognitive functioning is required continuously to maintain health and reduce threats to survival.