Carolina Population Center -- NICHD Center Grant

The Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a five-year grant under the NICHD R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program. CPC was established in 1966 to serve the population research and training needs of an elected body of faculty fellows. Seven signature themes collectively describe the population research interests of the faculty: family, fertility, and children; population diversity and inequality; social and spatial contexts of demographic and health behavior; economic, demographic, and health transitions; population and environment; health behavior and infectious disease; and demography and economics of aging. The strength of CPC derives from the individual and collective strengths of its faculty. Research based at CPC covers topics from the local global and is unusually collaborative and interdisciplinary, with the large majority of funded projects involving more than one investigator and the majority of those involving investigators from different departments or schools.

The present Center grant allows CPC to continue responding to, building on, and synergizing its strengths. Support is provided for seven research service cores: administrative, computer, information services, spatial analysis, statistical, biomedical, and project development. The goal of the research service cores is to efficiently and effectively support and facilitate important and innovative population research. These services, and the excellence of the staff who provide them, are fundamental to the achievements of the faculty fellows.

Principal Investigator: Barbara Entwisle

Funding Source: NIH

Grant Number: 1 R24 HD50924-01

Funding Period: 07/01/05-06/30/10