Upcoming DUPRI Seminars

Spring 2026
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*: Who Counts as Indigenous? Categorical Elasticity and The Politics of Official Ethnoracial Classification Technologies in Mexico, 2000-2024

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.