Seminar Series

Friday, March 4th 11:45 am Gross Hall Room 103 Dr.

National health insurance is one means to provide health care. This paper describes the financing and receipt of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) implemented in 2005.

The economic crisis of 2008 called attention to the risks associated with rising household and consumer debt. Over the last forty years, inflation adjusted household debt has increased dramatically, and debt has become more difficult for American families to repay.

Location: Social Sciences 111

Residents of distressed urban areas suffer early aging-related disease and excess mortality.

Research on the maternal education gradient in child health generally views the strength of the gradient as fixed across the twentieth century.

This meeting will be devoted to an initial presentation about recent investments in research computing at Duke, followed by a conversation about how these investments can best be utilized to serve the DuPRI community and what gaps might exist that need to be addressed.

The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) is a multi-purpose pregnancy and birth cohort study that has now spanned more than 3 decades.

Following the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, #BlackLivesMatter exploded into the social media sphere. As evidence by protests and unrest in Ferguson, MO and Baltimore, MD, the hashtag social movement to curtail racial profiling and police brutality is still progressing three year later.