Thu Nguyen, UMD Epidemiology and Biostatistics

About the Presentation

To gain a more holistic insight into the various discourses and sentiments pertaining to immigration, we examined multiple publicly available social media platforms consisting of X, Facebook, Reddit, and BlueSky. From each of these platforms, we collected English-language posts from the U.S. that contained one or more keywords referencing refugees in particular and immigrants broadly. We investigated temporal and geographic patterns in sentiment and engagement of posts related to refugees and immigrants in the U.S. 

About the Speaker

Thu Nguyen, ScD, MSPH is an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She is a social epidemiologist whose research focuses on the impact of modifiable social factors on minority health and health disparities. Dr. Nguyen uses a variety of different data sources (including Big Data) and approaches (including quantitative and qualitative research methods) to advance our understanding of social determinants of health. Dr. Nguyen also leads the interdisciplinary research collaborative, Big Data for Health Equity (BD4HE).

Seminar Format

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