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A new study led by an international team of researchers, including DUPRI Scholar James Moody, provides some of the strongest evidence to date that women's social networks play an important role in contraceptive decision-making.

This is a summary of a story by Elizabeth Thompson on the Cook Center on Social Equity website.

DUPRI student and PhD Candidate in Sociology AP Pittman has been named an SSRI PARISS Fellow, a program that supports emerging scholars conducting innovative, interdisciplinary research across the social sciences.

DUPRI Scholars Tonia Poteat (Ruby L.

A new Social Forces article by Courtney E. Boen, Elizabeth F. Bair, DUPRI Scholar Hedwig Lee, and Atheendar S. Venkataramani examines how state incarceration policies shape birth outcomes in the United States. Using nationwide birth records and state policy data, the authors find that "three strikes" laws are associated with worse birth outcomes for Black infants, while truth-in-sentencing policies are linked to gradual improvements in birth outcomes, highlighting the complex and racialized health impacts of criminal legal system policies.

NextGenPop has been awarded a five-year renewal by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (2R25HD105602, PIs Marcy Carlson and Kelly Musick). NextGenPop is a collaborative undergraduate training program designed to bring young scholars into the field of population research. The cohort-based program includes a two-week summer experience that rotates across universities, subsequent virtual components throughout the academic year on research and professional development, and opportunities for mentorship and networking at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA), the nation’s leading professional association for population scholars.

DUPRI Scholar Manoj Mohanan has been named Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Programs, effective July 1. Mohanan, a professor of public policy, economics, and global health, will lead Duke’s efforts to strengthen interdisciplinary research, education, and collaboration across the university’s schools and academic units. He succeeds Ed Balleisen, who is leaving Duke to become provost at George Washington University.

Established in 1995, this biennial award originally honored innovative contributions to the design, collection, modeling, or analysis of population survey or census data. Beginning with the 2000 award, the terms were modified to recognize early career achievement in population studies and demography, broadly defined. It honors outstanding innovative scholarly achievements of population professionals who have attained their highest professional degree within the previous 10-20 years. The award is sponsored by PAA in association with the Population Research Institute of the Pennsylvania State University, and commemorates the memory and creative contributions of Clifford C. Clogg to the field of quantitative methods and labor force demography.

NextGenPop is an undergraduate pipeline program in population research that aims to increase the diversity of the population field and nurture the next generation of population scientists. It is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (R25 HD105602). In June 2024, DUPRI hosted the the 3rd NextGenPop cohort of 21 fellows from 19 universities across the nation for a 2-week, in-person, on-campus summer experience. Many Duke NextGenPop alums attended the Population Association of America (PAA) Annul Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri from May 6 - 9, and three presented their research. We are very proud of their work!