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2025-2026 Training year events

Lunch&Learn: What's Your Street-Race, Class, Gender? The Urgency of Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry and Praxis for Advancing Health Equity

February 11, 2026 (Online event)

For our February Lunch & Learn, we welcomed Nancy López, Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. Her scholarship focuses on intersectionality as both an analytical framework and a practical approach to advancing health equity.

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Lunch&Learn: Rethinking Immigrant Health: Beyond the Myth of Unhealthy Assimilation

January 14, 2026 (Online event)

In this January Lunch&Learn session, we were delighted to welcome Dr. Hui Zheng, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Zheng’s research examined the social and institutional determinants of population health and aging, including inequality, medical expansion, work environments, and life course processes.

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Lunch&Learn: Age-specific migration flows across the rural-urban continuum: New evidence from U.S. Census administrative records

November 12, 2025 (Hybrid event)

We had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Kathryn McConnell, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, whose research examines the social dimensions of climate change, with a focus on the intersections between climate hazards, the built environment, and population mobility.

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Lunch&Learn: Unexpected Changes in Rural Families: Fewer Married Parents, Lower Child Poverty

October 8, 2025 (Online event)

Dr. Matthew M. Brooks, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, led our Lunch & Learn session with an engaging discussion on shifting family dynamics in rural communities. His research examined how transformations in marriage, parenthood, and household structures intersect with broader social and economic change, particularly in rural North America. 

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Connect2Learn: From Training to Data-Driven Decision-Making: CAnD3 Alumni Showcase 2025

September 17, 2025 (Online event)

In the opening session of the 2025–2026 Population Analytics in an Aging Society Training Program, we featured four notable alumni from the CAnD3 program. The primary goal of the CAnD3 Training Program was to enhance the skills of Fellows in population data science and computational population social science, empowering them to make evidence-based decisions in their respective areas of expertise. 

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