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Giovanna Merli is a Professor at Duke University, affiliated with the Sanford School of Public Policy, Department of Sociology, and Duke Global Health Institute. She serves as Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute (DUPRI) and Deputy Editor of the journal Demography.
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1996)
- MA, University of Pennsylvania (1993)
- Academic Visitor, University of Oxford (2022)
Her research bridges demography, migration studies, and global health, with a focus on Chinese diasporas, network sampling methods, HIV/STIs, and public policy. She examines social determinants of health in migrant populations, evaluates network-based sampling techniques, and studies health outcomes among immigrants from Ghana and China.
Her recent work explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrant networks, discrimination against Chinese immigrants in the U.S. South, and the application of network sampling to migration and health studies. She has secured major grants for projects like Dynamics of Ghanaian immigrants' health in the US (2024-2029) and Duke RDS2 (2020-2022).
Merli has contributed to methodological advancements in respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and spatial distribution analysis of migrant communities. Her teaching includes advanced demography courses such as PUBPOL 840S and GLHLTH 761S.
