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M. Giovanna Merli

Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708-0312
236 Rubenstein Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Dynamics of Ghanaian immigrants' health in the US: Critical life-stage experiences, social networks, acculturation and selection (GMHeS)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

NextGenPop -- Recruiting the Next Generation of Scholars into Population Research

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Wisconsin - Madison · 2021 - 2026

Focused Training in Social Networks and Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2026

Duke Population Research Center

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2026

Duke RDS2 (Respondent-Driven Sampling, Respiratory Disease Surveillance) the SNOWBALL Sampling Study

ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2020 - 2022

Social Capital in a Migrant Community: A Case of Employment Referral Networks

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2022

Testing Multiple Modes of Data Collection with Network Sampling with Memory

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2019

Using Multiple Data Sources to Improve Respondent Driven Sampling Estimation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2016

HIV risk behaviors among methamphetamine users in Cape Town, South Africa

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2012 - 2015

Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Global Health at Duke University

Institutional SupportCourse Faculty · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2008 - 2012