The Center for Poverty & Inequality Research hosts an annual
seminar series on poverty issues. We are pleased to welcome
faculty, researchers, and thought leaders to the UC Davis campus.
Most of our seminars are located in Andrews Conference Room, 2203
Social Sciences and Humanities Building, unless otherwise noted.
Parking Information: Daily parking is
available in the Quad Parking
Structure through the AggiePark website
or AMP app. The Andrews Conference Room is a short walk from the parking
structure.
Directions to Andrews Conference Room:
Enter the Social
Sciences & Humanities Building through the Letters & Science
Dean’s Office entrance (arch and glass doors). Stairs and
elevator are located just inside; proceed to the second floor.
Andrews is on the right side of the hall, 2203 SS&H.
The opioid crisis in the United States and Canada has reached
unprecedented levels. One understudied dimension is its impact on
the next generation. We use linked administrative data from the
Canadian province of British Columbia (where opioid death rates
exceed the US national average) that links birth records since
2000 to health, education, well-being and mortality for both the
mother and the child. We have three main findings.
Liliana Lengua, Ph.D. is UW’s Maritz Family Foundation Professor
of Psychology and has directed the Center for Child and Family
Well-Being since its founding in 2011. A child clinical
psychologist, she studies the effects of adversity on children
and examines risk and protective factors that contribute to
children’s resilience or vulnerability. Her research has focused
on the contributions of children’s temperament, coping, and
parenting in contributing to children’s responses to
adversity.
The seminar is co-hosted with the Department of Psychology.
Facilitated by Courtney Lyles and Marianne Page, this event
features short presentations by guest speakers followed by an
interactive Q+A. All UC Davis faculty, students and staff are
encouraged to register for the symposium. Light refreshments will
be provided for those who attend in-person.
Dr. Arline T. Geronimus is a renowned public health researcher,
professor, and author of Weathering: The Extraordinary
Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society, called a
“monumental” book by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an
Antiracist.
Anna Gassman-Pines is a professor of public policy and psychology
and neuroscience at Duke University. She is also a Faculty
Affiliate of Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy.
Gassman-Pines received her BA with distinction in Psychology from
Yale University and PhD in Community and Developmental Psychology
from New York University. Her research focuses on low-wage work,
family life and the effects of welfare and employment policy on
child and maternal well-being in low-income families.
