Overview
M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Global Health and Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute. Her work straddles demography; Chinese population, society and diasporas; migration; global health. Her research interests include population and health issues that intersect frontline public policy; the social and behavioral determinants of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases; the evaluation of network-based methods to recruit population representative samples of hard-to-survey, hidden or rare populations; and the application of network sampling approaches to the study of migration and health. A new project links origin and destination contexts to study the health outcomes of immigrants from Ghana to the U.S.. She is a Deputy Editor of the journal Demography.