Elizabeth Frankenberg, PhD, begins as director of the Carolina Population Center (CPC) on July 1, 2017. Most recently Frankenberg served as professor of public policy and sociology at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, and as the school's associate dean for academic programs from 2012-2014.

In Asia and Africa, women and children are especially vulnerable. A study in Africa shows mass bed net campaigns are reducing health disparities across the region.

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health project staff released a new Add Health Research Brief on Characteristics of Young Adult Relationships.

The Carolina Population Center Data Portal promotes and highlights CPC's original data collection efforts and enhances data dissemination.

CPC Fellow Gordon-Larsen recently received funding to study if there is a link between Western diets and cardiometabolic risk among Chinese people living in a rural area that is undergoing urbanization.

Data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey - Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) is now available for researchers to access via Dataverse.

Conducted by a team of researchers from the United States and the Philippines, the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey is part of an ongoing study of a cohort of Filipino women who gave birth between May 1, 1983, and April 30, 1984