International Training in Population, Health, and Aging

Researchers at the Carolina Population Center (CPC) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), have established a set of collaborations in international settings to study population and health issues associated with rapid societal change, the environment, and the long-term effects of fetal and infant under nutrition. Collaborations are unique in that they are organized around long-term collaborative projects that include longitudinal data collection as well as broadly based substantively oriented research on a wide variety of topics. The collaborators are eminent research institutions in China (Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing, CAPM), the Philippines (Office of Population Studies at the University of San Carlos, OPS), Thailand (Institute of Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, IPSR), Russia (the Russian Institute of Nutrition, Russian Academy of Medical Science (RIN), and Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, IS); and Ecuador (Fundacion Ecociencia, hereafter Ecociencia) and Centro de Estudios sobre Poblacion y Desarrollo Social (Center for the Study of Population and Social Development or CEPAR).

The grant consists of a mix of short-, medium, and long-term training of researchers, graduate students, and established scholars. This grant allows both to further a broad-based and specific training goals by bringing down faculty from UNC-CH or elsewhere to their institutions, by having our collaborations come to UNC, or by sending them to regional workshops. These efforts resulted in development of skills in state of the art measurement and analytic techniques and publications in top international journals. We are also able to help recent PhDs from UNC-CH to establish research programs and facilities in their home institution, facilitating their return and future productivity.

Principal Investigator: Barry M. Popkin

Funding Source: NIH

Grant Number: 5-D43-TW000633-10

Funding Period: 09/29/00-04/30/08