Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1996
  • M.A., University of Pennsylvania 1993
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute 2010 - 2017
  • Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2008 - 2014
  • Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2014
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • OCT 29, 2015

    News Tip: Ending China’s One-Child Policy ‘Long Overdue,’ Expert Says
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Adolescent
  • Age Distribution
  • Amphetamine-Related Disorders
  • Behavioral Research
  • Birth Rate
  • Censuses
  • Child
  • China
  • Contraception Behavior
  • Data Collection
  • Demography
  • Drug Users
  • Emigration and Immigration
  • Epidemiologic Methods
  • Family Characteristics
  • Family Planning Services
  • Female
  • HIV Infections
  • Health Behavior
  • Health Surveys
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant Mortality
  • Life Tables
  • Mortality
  • Patient Selection
  • Population Control
  • Population Dynamics
  • Population Surveillance
  • Prostitution
  • Sampling Studies
  • Sex Distribution
  • Sex Ratio
  • Sex Workers
  • Social networks
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Syphilis
  • Unsafe Sex
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • China (Country) 

  • Research

    • China (Country) 
    • United Republic of Tanzania (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Focused Training in Social Networks and Health awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
  • Duke Population Research Institute awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2020
  • Testing Multiple Modes of Data Collection with Network Sampling with Memory awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2018
  • Using Multiple Data Sources to Improve Respondent Driven Sampling Estimation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2011 - 2016
  • HIV risk behaviors among methamphetamine users in Cape Town, South Africa awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2015
  • Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Global Health awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2012
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles

    • Merli, MG, Verdery, A, Mouw, T, and Li, J. "Sampling Migrants from their Social Networks: The Demography and Social Organization of Chinese Migrants in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Migration studies 4, no. 2 (July 2016): 182-214.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Verdery, AM, Merli, MG, Moody, J, Smith, JA, and Fisher, JC. "Brief Report: Respondent-driven Sampling Estimators Under Real and Theoretical Recruitment Conditions of Female Sex Workers in China." Epidemiology 26, no. 5 (September 2015): 661-665.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merli, MG, Moody, J, Mendelsohn, J, and Gauthier, R. "Sexual Mixing in Shanghai: Are Heterosexual Contact Patterns Compatible With an HIV/AIDS Epidemic?." Demography 52, no. 3 (June 2015): 919-942.  Full Text
    • Merli, MG, Moody, J, Smith, J, Li, J, Weir, S, and Chen, X. "Challenges to recruiting population representative samples of female sex workers in China using Respondent Driven Sampling." Social Science and Medicine 125 (January 1, 2015): 79-93.  Full Text
    • Kimani, SM, Watt, MH, Merli, MG, Skinner, D, Myers, B, Pieterse, D, MacFarlane, JC, and Meade, CS. "Respondent driven sampling is an effective method for engaging methamphetamine users in HIV prevention research in South Africa." Drug and alcohol dependence 143 (October 2014): 134-140.  Full Text
    • Fisher, JC, and Merli, MG. "Stickiness of respondent-driven sampling recruitment chains." Network science (Cambridge University Press) 2, no. 2 (January 2014): 298-301.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • He, W, James, SA, Merli, MG, and Zheng, H. "An increasing socioeconomic gap in childhood overweight and obesity in China." Am J Public Health 104, no. 1 (January 2014): e14-e22.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Tian, FF, Merli, MG, and Qian, Z. "Job Mobility and Extramarital Sex in Reform-Era Urban China." Chinese Sociological Review 46, no. 1 (October 1, 2013): 60-82.  Full Text
    • Yamanis, TJ, Merli, MG, Neely, WW, Tian, FF, Moody, J, Tu, X, and Gao, E. "An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Recruitment Patterns on RDS Estimates among a Socially Ordered Population of Female Sex Workers in China." Sociological Methods and Research 42, no. 3 (2013): 392-425.  Full Text
    • Weir, SS, Merli, MG, Li, J, Gandhi, AD, Neely, WW, Edwards, JK, Suchindran, CM, Henderson, GE, and Chen, X-S. "A comparison of respondent-driven and venue-based sampling of female sex workers in Liuzhou, China." Sex Transm Infect 88 Suppl 2 (December 2012): i95-101.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Li, J, Chen, X-S, Merli, MG, Weir, SS, and Henderson, GE. "Systematic differences in risk behaviors and syphilis prevalence across types of female sex workers: a preliminary study in Liuzhou, China." Sex Transm Dis 39, no. 3 (March 2012): 195-200.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merli, MG, Morgan, SP, and Festy, P. "Les préférences de fécondité à Shanghai dans un contexte de basse fécondité." Population 66, no. 3 (2011): 601-626.
    • Merli, MG, and Morgan, SP. "Below replacement fertility preferences in shanghai." Population 66, no. 3-4 (2011): 519-542.  Full Text
    • Tu, , Xiaowen, , Xiao, C, Guanghong, F, Merli, , Giovanna, M, Weiming, G, Yang, Y, and Ersheng, G. "Factors associated with sexually transmitted disease infection among female sex workers in Shanghai, China." Zhongguo Gonggong Weisheng Zazhi (Chinese Journal of Public Health) (2010). (Academic Article)
    • Merli, MG. "Demography in the Age of the Postmodern." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 114, no. 6 (May 2009): 1879-1881.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Merli, MG. "Governing China's population: From leninist to neoliberal biopolitics." CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY-A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS 36, no. 2 (March 2007): 164-165.  Link to Item
    • Merli, MG, Hertog, S, Wang, B, and Li, J. "Modelling the spread of HIV/AIDS in China: The role of sexual transmission." Population Studies 60, no. 1 (2006): 1-22.  Full Text
    • Merli, MG. "The past, present and future of China’s birth planning policy." Il Politico.Rivista Italiana di Scienze Politiche (Italian Journal of Political Sciences) LXXI, no. 3 (2006): 83-108. (Academic Article)
    • Merli, MG, Qian, Z, and Smith, HL. "Adaptation of a political bureaucracy to economic and institutional change under socialism: The Chinese state family planning system." Politics and Society 32, no. 2 (2004): 231-256.  Full Text
    • Merli, MG, and Smith, HL. "Has the Chinese family planning policy been successful in changing fertility preferences?." Demography 39, no. 3 (August 2002): 557-572.  Link to Item
    • Merli, , Giovanna, M, and Smith, HL. "Has the Chinese Birth Planning Program Been Successful in Changing Fertility Preferences? Evidence from Linked Records in Three Data Sources in Four Counties of Northern China." Demography 39, no. 3 (2002): 557-572. (Academic Article)
    • Merli, MG, and Raftery, AE. "Are births underreported in rural China? Manipulation of statistical records in response to China's population policies." Demography 37, no. 1 (February 2000): 109-126.  Link to Item
    • Merli, MG. "Socioeconomic background and war mortality during Vietnam's wars." Demography 37, no. 1 (February 2000): 1-15.  Link to Item
    • Merli, MG. "Mortality in Vietnam, 1979-1989." Demography 35, no. 3 (August 1998): 345-360.  Link to Item
    • Merli, MG. "Underreporting of births and infant deaths in rural China: evidence from field research in one county of northern China." China Quarterly , no. 155 (1998): 637-655.
    • Smith, HL, Ping, T, Merli, MG, and Hereward, M. "Implementation of a demographic and contraceptive surveillance system in four counties in north China." Population Research and Policy Review 16, no. 4 (1997): 289-314.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • GLHLTH 761K: Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts 2018
  • GLHLTH 761S: Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts 2018
  • PUBPOL 792: Special Readings in Public Policy Studies 2018
  • PUBPOL 840S: Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts 2018
  • PUBPOL 908S: Dissertation Proposal Seminar I 2018
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Global Health Outreach. Using Multiple Data Sources to Improve Respondent Driven Sampling Estimation. April 2011  2011

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