Today's DUPRI seminar features Samuel Arenberg, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Houston. He is presenting "Candidate Origins of the Recent Stagnation in Midlife Mortality in the United States."
Today's DUPRI seminar features Justin Moore, Professor of Implementation Science & Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He is presenting "Implementation Science as a Catalyst for Improving Population Health in a Learning Health System."
Congratulations to Herman Pontzer on being elected a 2025 @aaas.org fellow!
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Today's DUPRI seminar features Neil K. Mehta, Professor and Chair of Epidemiology at University of Texas Medical Branch. He is presenting "Recent Insights into the U.S. Life Expectancy Stagnation with an Eye Toward the Future."
Financial well-being is more than income or wealth alone. By analyzing income, assets, and debt together, DUPRI's Lisa Keister, Jim Moody, & @shuyiqiu.bsky.social ID 10 financial profiles—revealing hidden forms of stability and vulnerability in U.S. households.
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Shuyi Qiu, a PhD candidate at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, smiling. Text of her quote says: "I am broadly interested in social inequality and mobility, with a particular focus on analyzing them from a life-course and socio-ecological perspective. Core questions I ask: How do the environments people grow up in shape their life chances? How can social policy interventions in early life stages make those opportunities more equal?"
@shuyiqiu.bsky.social's research is grounded in the idea that inequalities in adulthood can be traced back to earlier stages of life, shaped jointly by macro, meso and micro contexts.
Q&A w/ the Duke PhD candidate in Public Policy & Sociology: duke.is/qiu-qa
Hannah Postel standing outside in front of a building and smiling. Logo for Duke Sanford School of Public Policy. Text in corner says Social Policy.
How did U.S. policy shape Asian immigration?
Duke Sanford’s Hannah Postel shows how exclusion laws, citizenship bans & the 1965 reforms shaped who could come from Asia.
What we often see as “cultural” patterns often trace back to policy decisions.
Read more: sanford.duke.edu/story/new-re...
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Duke Sanford faculty members consider key moments in public policy history that changed the lives of women, including the Lanham Act (1940) which provided federally-subsidized childcare for families during World War II.
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A new paper from the Moffitt & Caspi Lab presents replicated evidence showing that people with schizophrenia exhibit a faster pace of whole-body biological aging compared with controls, as measured using a novel neuroimaging biomarker.
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Today's DUPRI seminar features @pahoman.bsky.social, Raymond Flavious Bellamy Chair in Population Studies & Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida State University. She is presenting "Power, Institutions, and Population Health in the US."
As a student, Lauren Brinkley‑Rubinstein thought she might work in law enforcement, but she changed her mind when she saw biases in the legal justice system. Now her work focuses on how incarceration impacts a person’s physical and mental health.
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Who is ready for #PAA2026?! 🤝 🎤 📈
The preliminary program is now online: buff.ly/hvP9w37
3 days of oral sessions, posters, exhibits, networking, population data, research and feedback. What are you looking forward to the most?
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Researchers at the Duke Biodemography of Aging Research Unit (BARU) have recently published three interconnected studies that shed new light on how our genes, environment, and history of infections collide to influence the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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A @dukemedschool.bsky.social symposium, "Metabolism & Health Across the Lifespan," highlighted Duke research that informs efforts to extend & enhance longevity & late-life health. DUPRI's Terrie Moffitt, Herman Pontzer, and Heather Whitson were featured speakers.
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A new article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives by DUPRI Scholar @hpostel.bsky.social shows that the trajectory of Asian immigration to the United States has been uniquely and profoundly shaped by over a century of shifting federal policies.
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Today's DUPRI seminar features Jennifer Montez, Professor of Sociology & Director of the Center for Aging and Policy Studies at Syracuse University. She is presenting "Why have mortality rates become increasingly unequal across U.S. counties?"
A new publication in Ear and Hearing by authors from Duke and UNC, including DUPRI's Jessica West, finds that faster epigenetic aging is tied to poorer hearing in older adults, linking biological age markers to age‑related hearing loss.
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Today's DUPRI seminar features Elizabeth Frankenberg, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill. She is presenting "Linking Disaster-Driven Destruction and Reconstruction to Population Health Outcomes over Two Decades."
A new paper out in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy by David Silver and DUPRI Scholar @jzhangecon.bsky.social looks at the impacts of VA disability compensation for mental disabilities for veterans.
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Today's DUPRI seminar features @melindacmills.bsky.social, Prof. of Demography & Pop Health at @oxpop.bsky.social & @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, and Director of @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. She is presenting "What Population-Wide Data and Our Future Health UK Reveal About Families, Health, and Bias.”
DUPRI student Zhe Chen has a new article out in Social Policy and Society examining healthcare access among older adults with disabilities in China, finding income and urban advantages, with regional development narrowing urban–rural gaps but not income inequality.
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🗞️In our January issue, we celebrate the 5th anniversary of Nature Aging 🎉Read one Q&A from aging researchers, another Q&A to peek behind the scenes at the journal, our reflections on the past 5 years, and lots of great science too, here: nature.com/nataging/vol...
Today's DUPRI Seminar features Daniel Schneider, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy & Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He is presenting "A Fair Work Week: Raising the Floor on Precarious Scheduling."
From primate biology to modern weight loss debates, Herman Pontzer traces how evolution shaped a metabolism built for movement, adaptation, and survival. Hint: Exercise isn’t the calorie-burning bonanza you think it is.
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The Winter 2026 DUPRI Newsletter, detailing the latest work and news from DUPRI scholars, is out now!
Find it here: mailchi.mp/6f828b44ba60...
A new publication from a team of Duke researchers, including DUPRI Scholars @drjessicaswest.bsky.social, @hanzhang-xu.bsky.social, and Matthew Dupre investigates whether hearing loss is associated with hospitalizations among adults managing heart failure.
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Today's inaugural seminar of the spring 2026 DUPRI Seminar Series features @mgurven.bsky.social, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He is presenting "Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer."
Dr. Heather Whitson found her calling when her love of science was linked to helping her grandmother confront Alzheimer’s. At Duke, she has found that Alzheimer’s and dementia are diseases of aging that can be prevented decades before symptoms appear.
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We are looking forward to seeing you at #PAA2026 in St. Louis, Missouri, next May for a full and rigorous scientific conference! Registration is now open! buff.ly/Ro4j9s0
A new paper in Nature Mental Health co-authored by Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt shows that mental health conditions are associated with increased risk of self-harm, assault and unintentional injuries. This work was partially funded by DUPRI pilot funds.
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