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Wall St Journal article discusses CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s new study on obesity in China
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s study on the rise of obesity in
China appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The study uses data from the China
Nutrition and Health Study.
“In a development with implications for China's
work force and economic growth, a new study says more than 25% of adults in the
country are overweight or obese and that the number could double over the next
20 years. ...In addition, 12 million to 14 million adults are becoming at risk
for diabetes and hypertension annually, ...
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CPC Fellow Jane Brown interviewed on NPR about teen pregnancy in the media
CPC Fellow and journalism professor Jane Brown discusses
the “Juno Effect” on adolescents’ sexual behavior in an interview on NPR. To
read a summary or to find a link to listen to the interview, click here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91906103
Some media outlets may require free user registration or
a subscription. Most articles are available at the URLs provided for a limited
time, usually two weeks or less.
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Biomarkers Workshop Report
The summer workshop Integrating Biomarkers in Population-Based Research
was successfully conducted June 2-6. The course was developed under an
NIH R25 training grant to CPC and taught by CPC's Deputy Director for Research Services
Nancy Dole and CPC Fellow Andy
Olshan. It was designed to introduce social scientists to biomedical
measures and their incorporation into population research. Additional
lectures and demonstrations were provided by guest speakers, all with
biomarkers resear...
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CPC Fellow James Johnson appears in documentary about black teen births
CPC Fellow and distinguished professor in the Kenan-Flagler Business school James Johnson appeared in WRAL-TV’s Focal Point documentary entitled “Love Child.” “Love Child” takes an in-depth look at the disproportionate number of teen births in the black community with candid interviews and revealing insight from teen mothers and young men. James Johnson appeared in the documentary, discussing teen births in the black community. He was interviewed and showed interacting with youths in the Durham ...
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CPC Fellow Kaufman interviewed about race and health disparities
CPC Fellow Jay
Kaufman gave a presentation at the Texas Conference on Health
Disparities and an article about his presentation appeared in the Fort
Worth Business Press. From the article: "Two sessions in particular, “What Would a
Race-Specific Drug Look Like?” and “Race, Biology and Health,” pointed
out that
one of the central debates in researching health disparities is how to
define
various groups who are treated differently. Jay Kaufman, associate professor of
epidemiology at the ...
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CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen quoted in US News & World Report
“There's
a reason why the last season of The Biggest Loser included couples; when two
people meet and fall in love, they often change their eating and exercise
habits, and not always for the better. ...Sharing an environment can clearly
influence eating and exercise habits, says Penny Gordon-Larsen, a nutrition
researcher at the University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
and an author of the dating/cohabitation/marriage study.” (Hobson, K. (2008).7
ways to avoid the 'I'm in love!' weight ...
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Newsweek quotes CPC Fellow Anna Maria Siega-Riz on weight gain in pregnancy
Researchers at the USDA-Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center studied weight gain in pregnant
women. “They wondered if excessive weight gain before or during pregnancy might
directly affect the metabolic programming of the developing fetus. In other
words, could an overweight pregnant woman be creating an environment inside her
uterus that predisposed her child to put on fat more quickly than the offspring
of normal-weight mothers, even when both groups of babies ate similar foods and
got t...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on childhood obesity trends in The Washington Post
“The
obesity epidemic may have peaked among U.S. children, halting a
decades-long trend of inexorably expanding waistlines among the nation's youngest
and most vulnerable, federal health officials reported yesterday. ...Barry M.
Popkin, who heads the Interdisciplinary
Obesity Center
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
said he is skeptical that government programs are responsible. One possible
influence, he said, is the flagging economy.” (“Childhood Obesity Rates Stop Ris...
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CPC Fellow Whitmore Receives UNC Award
CPC Fellow Thomas Whitmore received the UNC Graduate School’s Faculty Award for Excellence in
Doctoral Mentoring during the May 10 doctoral hooding ceremony in
UNC's Memorial Hall.
Whitmore, an Associate Professor of Geography, whose research interests focus on
Latin America, particularly the broad intersection of the fields of
population, medical and agricultural geography, and geographic cultural
ecology.
The Administrative Board of the
Graduate School established the doctoral ment...
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CPC Fellows Harris and Mouw win UNC awards
The Carolina
Population Center
is pleased to announce that two of our fellows have recently received awards.
Kathleen Mullan Harris has been made the James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology, which is a permanent distinguished professorship. Ted Mouw, Associate Professor of Sociology,
has been made a Bowman and Gordon Gray associate professor. This is a five-year term
chair, which honors his teaching excellence.
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CPC Fellow Walsh receives teaching award
CPC Fellow and Professor of Geography Stephen J. Walsh received a Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Congratulations Steve!
Read about his work with students and an excerpt from the nomination at
http://gazette.unc.edu/archives/08may07/teaching-insert-lo-res.pdf
(scroll to page 3 of the PDF) or at
http://gazette.unc.edu/archives/08may07/file.5.html (scroll to his name)....
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s work with Beverage Guidance Panel in news
The Orlando Sentinel reported on CPC Fellow Barry Popkin’s work with the Beverage Guidance Panel, a group of nutrition experts who developed a beverage pyramid similar to the food pyramid developed by the USDA. (Barish-Wreden, Maxine, and Kay Judge. 2008. Don't take that sip! The Beverage Council has a pyramid that suggests where you should put your straw. In Orlando Sentinel. Orlando, Fl.) To read the entire article, click here: orlandosentinel.com/features/food/orl-whattodrink08apr29,0,2713735...
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PAA Poster Blue Ribbon Winners
Congratulations to all 2008 PAA presenters. Five CPC posters
were awarded blue ribbons. Caryl
Feldacker, Veronica Escamilla, and Michael Emch:
Protecting Populations: Using Environmental Variables to
Predict Cholera in Bangladesh
and Vietnam;
Carolyn Tucker Halpern and Abigail
Haydon:
Patterns of Risk Behavior Change From Adolescence to Emerging
Adulthood and Implications for STIs;
Hedwig Lee:
Multiple Levels of Social Disadvantage and its L...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on obesity in Mexico in the news
In
the March 24 issue of the Charlotte Observer, CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses
obesity trends in Mexico.
“Fueled
by the rising popularity of soft drinks and fast-food restaurants, Mexico has
become the second fattest nation in the world. Mexican health officials say it
could surpass the U.S.
as the most obese country within 10 years if trends continue. ... In 1989,
fewer than 10 percent of Mexican adults were overweight. No one in the country
even talked about obesity back...
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CPC Fellow Bentley Featured in Science Article about Careers in Global Public Health
"Pointing to her interdisciplinary training in medical anthropology,
Margaret “Peggy” Bentley, associate dean of global health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health
in Chapel Hill, encourages science undergraduates considering a career
in the field to think broadly and take courses in the social sciences
and humanities. If you're going to work on problems that affect other
countries, you need to understand other cultures, she says."
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag....
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CPC Fellow Jane Brown Receives Faculty Mentoring Award
Dr. Jane Brown, CPC Fellow and the James L. Knight Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has received the Faculty Mentoring Award from the Carolina Women's Leadership Council. To read more, please click here:http://gazette.unc.edu/file.4.html ...
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Integrating Biomarkers in Population–based Research: Summer Workshop, June 2-6
Do you want to include biomarkers in your research but don't know how to
get started? This week-long introduction to biospecimens provides a
basic understanding and practical examples for collecting specimens such
as blood, saliva, hair, and more. Activities will be anchored to social
science and public health hypotheses and frameworks. Learn about options
for what to collect, how to develop protocols, how to work with a lab,
ethical considerations, costs, gene-environment interactio...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin quoted in the NYT and The Philadelphia Inquirer reacting to calorie-listing controversy
CPC Fellow Barry Popkin was interviewed by The New York Times and The Philadelphia Enquirer in response to the controversy generated when the president-elect of the Obesity Society filed an affidavit presenting scientific evidence that calorie labeling may not be helpful and could actually be harmful. “It might be only a scientific debate among nutrition experts, except for the fact that Dr. Allison was paid to write the document on behalf of the New York State Restaurant Association, which is ...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses global obesity in Scientific American
More people in developing
countries are now overweight than hungry, says CPC Fellow Barry Popkin in the
September 2007 issue of Scientific American (“The World is Fat,” Scientific
American 297, no. 3: 88-95). More than 1.3 billion people are now overweight.
Obesity rates in many developing countries are nearing the rates in developed
countries.
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CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss quoted in Washington Post about new report that U.S. fertility rate is at 35-year high
While being a mother who works outside the home is far from
easy for many American women, many experts said the United States is in many ways more amenable to the practice than many other developed countries…“We also have a
relatively high percentage of part-time jobs available," said Ronald
Rindfuss, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina. "There's also more shift work outside the normal nine-to-five, Monday-through-Friday
schedule that enables parents to share child care...
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CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Kris Marsh appears as guest on WUNC’s The State of Things
For years, social science
has defined the middle-class family as a married couple, typically with
children. But a new study out of UNC-Chapel Hill challenges that definition,
particularly for the African-American population. Host Frank Stasio gets an
update on who is achieving and maintaining middle-class status in the black
community from Kris Marsh, of the Carolina Population Center; Walter
Farell, a UNC professor of Social Work; and, John Morton, a program director at
Pew Charitable Tr...
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CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Amy Burdette's research on religious affiliation and marital fidelity appears in news
Where you worship - and whether you worship at all - could be connected to your likelihood of straying from your marriage vows. ..."What matters the most is being involved in a religious organization," says Amy Burdette, co-author of the study and a post-doctoral scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article is based on research published in the latest issue of Journal of Family Issues (Burdette, Amy M., Christopher G. Ellison, Darren E. Sherkat, and Kurt A. Gore. 2007...
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CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss comments on the environmental impact of divorce in USA Today
Divorce isn't green, says a study being published today...While divorce leads to smaller household size on average for a population, "it's not just divorce," says social demographer Ronald Rindfuss of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has studied the relationship between population and the environment for more than a decade.To read the entire article (“Marriage: Eco-friendlier than divorce?” USA Today, December 4, 2007), click here:http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environm...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on Thanksgiving weight gain in the news
This shouldn't come as a
surprise: Thanksgiving is not the green light to a six-week indulgence that
precedes the waddle back to the gym Jan. 2...The holiday season that starts
with Thanksgiving (or even Halloween) and ends with New Year's is a slippery slope,
said Barry Popkin, who directs the University of North Carolina
Interdisciplinary Obesity Center.
To read the entire article (“Work
off those holiday calories fast,” The Associated Press, November 23,
2007), click here:
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CPC Fellow Walsh Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from SEDAAG
Stephen J. Walsh, CPC Fellow and Professor of Geography at UNC-Chapel Hill, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SouthEastern
Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG). Walsh received the award on November 20th at the 2007 SEDAAG Annual
Meeting held in Charleston, South Carolina. The Lifetime Achievement
Award honors Walsh's extensive record of research and publication,
excellence in teaching and advising, his record of service
contributions to UNC-Chapel Hil...
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