M. Giovanna Merli

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 Chinese 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.