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Box 90312
Durham, NC 27708-0312
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Durham, NC 27708
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M. Giovanna Merli
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute (DUPRI)
Director of the Duke Population Research Center
Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology
Research Professor of Global Health
Areas of Expertise
- Global Health
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1996)
M.A., University of Pennsylvania (1993)
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Awards and Honors
Bio
My research straddles three disciplinary realms: demography, contemporary Chinese society and global health. I focus on a range of population and health issues in developing countries that intersect frontline public policy, such as the role of China's population control program in lowering fertility preferences and fertility rates in China, the social and behavioral determinants of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and the methodological evaluation and implementation of network-based approaches to sample hard-to-reach and hidden populations such as those at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases as well as undocumented migrants.
Representative Publications
Selected Grants
Focused Training in Social Networks and Health (Co-Principal Investigator)
Duke Population Research Center (Principal Investigator)
Social Capital in a Migrant Community: A Case of Employment Referral Networks (Principal Investigator)
Focused Training in Social Networks and Health (Co-Principal Investigator)
Testing Multiple Modes of Data Collection with Network Sampling with Memory (Principal Investigator)
Using Multiple Data Sources to Improve Respondent Driven Sampling Estimation (Principal Investigator)