Stickiness of respondent-driven sampling recruitment chains.

• Statistics "Boot Camp" syllabi:
• - 2011, 2012, 2013

• Conference presentations:
• - Sunbelt 2012 poster
• - SESUG 2012 paper: "Fitting Bayesian hierarchical multinomial logit models in PROC MCMC"
• - Sunbelt 2014 poster: "Visualizing respondent-driven sampling (RDS) recruitment chains in Pajek"
• - IC2S2 2016 poster: "Abandoning innovations: network evidence on enterprise collaboration software"

• Working papers (via SocArXiv):
• - Social space diffusion

• Preprints (also via SocArXiv):
• - Exit, cohesion, and consensus: social psychological moderators of consensus among adolescent peer groups (forthcoming at Social Currents)
• - Beyond Prevalence: Estimating Network Clustering with Respondent-Driven Sampling Data (forthcoming at Sociological Methodology)
• - Dynamic Associations of Network Isolation and Smoking Behavior (forthcoming at Network Science)
  

M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology, and Global Health at Duke University. She serves as Director of the Duke Population Research Center and Associate Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute.

Her research applies demographic methods to the study of fertility and mortality in China and Vietnam, while also advancing innovative approaches for studying hidden and hard-to-reach populations. For example, she has employed network sampling and the collection of ego-centric network data in population-representative surveys to explore the behavioral and relational determinants of HIV and other sexually transmitted disease transmission in China and South Africa, immigrant health, and social integration among Chinese immigrant populations in the United States, France, and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as African immigrants in the US. Her current work includes a project linking origin and destination contexts to examine the health of immigrants from Ghana to the U.S. She is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of Demography, the flagship journal of the Population Association of America.