题目：Disparities in Physical Activity and Obesity in the United States: the Role of Individual and Neighborhood Factors
　　主讲人：文鸣教授（Ming Wen, the University of Utah）
　　时间：2018年5月8日（星期二）下午14:30—16:30
　　地点：雁山萃华楼报告厅
　　主办单位：公共管理与传媒学院
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　　主讲人简介：
　　文鸣，2003年获得芝加哥大学社会学博士学位，现为美国犹他大学社会学教授，系主任，美国健康部评审专家。文鸣教授是健康、移民、儿童发展和老龄化方面的社会学家。发表学术论文80余篇，主持多个NIH和其他基金会资助的项目。曾获得犹他大学社会与行为科学学院杰出研究奖。多年来致力于研究社会、社会环境、美国居民体育活动和肥胖的关联。还曾研究种族、民族、移民和法律地位引起的能量平衡差异，并深入探究造成这些差异的根本因素。对国内的研究侧重于探讨社会经济地位、社会关系、家庭环境和内部迁徙对各年龄组人群健康的影响。目前主要从事中美两国居民终身健康和疾病的社会决定因素研究。
　　Dr. Ming Wen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah. She is a sociologist of health, migration, child development, and aging. She received PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2003. Her research centers on social determinants of health and illness throughout the life course in the United States and China. She is currently working on several funded projects in the U.S. or China. One multi-year project examines how neighborhood and social environmental features affect individual-level odds of physical activity participation and obesity in the United States. She also explores disparities in energy balance outcomes by race, ethnicity, immigrant, and legal status and investigate the mediating factors underlying these disparities. Her research in China focuses on the effects of socioeconomic status, social relationships, living arrangement and family contexts, and internal migration on a range of health and well-being outcomes in various age groups. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research articles.