Demography and data-driven decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Join our March Lunch & Learn session with Jennifer Dowd, Professor of Demography and Population Health Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. Professor Dowd will speak on socioeconomic status, immune function and health disparities from a life course perspective. She will focus particularly on the role, importance, and potential pitfalls of demography and data-driven decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of Professor Dowd's current research examines how social and biological processes interact over the life course and how social factors "get under the skin鈥� to impact health.
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12:00 - 12:05 | Welcome and introductions
12:05 - 12:45 | Lunch&Learn presentation
12:45 - 12:55 | Moderated Q&A session
12:55 - 13:00 | Closing and upcoming sessions
Location
This is an online webinar hosted on Zoom. To receive details to enter the event,听please register.听听
Featured Speaker
Jennifer Dowd
Professor of Demography, Population Health Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science,听University of Oxford
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What are Lunch&Learn's?
The CAnD3 Lunch&Learn series is designed to introduce our Fellows, team members, and partners to emerging research on topics related to population dynamics and population aging. These modules will cover the鈥�Four CAnD3 Population Aging Axes: (1) family and social inclusion; (2) education, labour and inequality; (3) migration and ethnicity; and (4) wellbeing and autonomy.
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