| Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Position | Institution |
| 1/08/2026 | Brenda Onyango | DOHA*: The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Gaps in Diabetes Management Outcomes | Graduate Student, Sociology | Duke University |
| 1/15/2026 | Michael Gurven | Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer | Distinguished Professor of Anthropology | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 1/22/2026 | Daniel Schneider | A Fair Work Week: Raising the Floor on Precarious Scheduling | Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy Professor of Sociology |
Harvard University |
| 1/29/2026 | Melinda Mills | What Population-Wide Data and Our Future Health UK Reveal About Families, Health, and Bias | Professor of Demography and Population Health Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science |
Nuffield College & Oxford University |
| 2/05/2026 |
Fatima Fairfax Madeylnn Wellons |
DOHA*: EHR Adoption and Healthcare Quality in the US DOHA*: Peer Influence on Health Behaviors: Structure, Norms, Support and Social Control |
Graduate Student, Sociology Graduate Student, Sociology |
Duke University Duke University |
| 2/12/2026 | Elizabeth Frankenberg | Linking Disaster-Driven Destruction and Reconstruction to Population Health Outcomes over Two Decades | Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Sociology Director, Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health |
UNC Chapel Hill |
| 2/19/2026 | Jennifer Montez | Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties? | Professor of Sociology Director for the Center for Aging and Policy Studies |
Syracuse University |
| 2/26/2026 | Patricia Homan | Power, Institutions, and Population Health in the US | Raymond Flavious Bellamy Chair in Population Studies Associate Professor of Sociology |
Florida State University |
| 3/05/2026 |
Renan Chicarelli Marques Braulio Guemez |
DOHA*: From Care to Classroom: Mental Health Reform and Education DOHA*: Who Claims Indigeneity? Intergenerational Patterns of Ethnic Classification in Contemporary Mexico |
Graduate Student, Sanford School of Public Policy Graduate Student, Sociology |
Duke University Duke University |
| 3/19/2026 | Christopher Wildeman | Cumulative Risks of Child Welfare System Involvement in the United States, 2016-2023 | Professor of Sociology | Duke University |
| 3/26/2026 | Neil Mehta | Recent Insights into the U.S. Life Expectancy Stagnation with an Eye Toward the Future | Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology | University of Texas Medical Branch |
| 4/02/2026 |
Braulio Guemez
Turgut Keskintürk |
DOHA*: The Politics of Aspiration: Ideology as a Luxury Good in Occupational Choice |
Graduate Student, Sociology
Graduate Student, Sociology |
Duke University
Duke University |
| 4/09/2026 | Justin Moore | Implementation Science as a Catalyst for Improving Population Health in a Learning Health System | Professor, Implementation Science, Public Health Sciences | Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
| 4/16/2026 | Samuel Arenberg | Candidate Origins of the Recent Stagnation in Midlife Mortality in the United States | Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Houston |
| 4/23/2026 | Megan Comfort | COVID-19 vaccination choices among Black women in Alameda County: The complexities of ‘trust’ |
*DOHA (Demography of Health and Aging) seminars are predoctoral student-led seminars.