NCS North Carolina

Filed under: Child Health

The National Children's Study is the largest long-term study of child health ever conducted in the US. It will closely examine effects of social, behavioral, biological, community and environmental factors on children's health outcomes.

We are working together for children's health.

Researchers from the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and Battelle Memorial Institute are working together to plan and implement the National Children's Study in North Carolina. Duplin County was one of two counties in the U.S. to begin enrollment in January 2009. Durham County was one of thirty counties across the country to expand Study enrollment in 2011. Enrollment for the cohorts in these two locations closed in March 2012.

Ultimately, a sample of tens of thousands of children will be observed for 21 years to explore causes of a variety of health problems, like obesity, injuries, asthma, and developmental delays.

For more information about the National Children's Study in North Carolina, contact us at:

ncs_unc@unc.edu
North Carolina Study Center for the National Children's Study
Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
CB #8120, University Square East
Chapel Hill, NC 27526-2524

For details of NC Study Center activities for The National Children's Study, visit the website at: http://centers.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/unc/Pages/default.aspx.