Research Projects
The following projects and programs offer web sites with detailed information about their research: study design, data collection, findings, publications, and more. To learn more about a project or about data access, please visit the project’s web site.
- Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health)
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Add Health is a nationally representative study of the health and behavior of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States in 1994-95 who have been followed through adolescence and the transition to adulthood with special emphasis on the effects of social context.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Beverage Intake in the United States
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The Beverage Guidance Panel was assembled to provide guidance on the relative health and nutritional benefits and risks of various beverage categories.
- Carolina Population Center -- NICHD Center Grant
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As one of the NIH/NICHD-funded population centers, the mission of the Carolina Population Center is to support the population and training interests of its faculty fellows, with the goal of producing cutting-edge research and using the research process to train the next generation of scholars. The funded projects and training activities represent a broad and impressive array of interdisciplinary and disciplinary research activities. The research services are organized into six cores: administrative, biomedical, computer, information, spatial analysis, and statistical.
Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey
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This program follows a cohort of Filipino women who gave birth between May 1, 1983, and April 30, 1984. Originally conceptualized as a study of infant feeding patterns and how feeding decisions interact with social, economic, and environmental factors to affect health, nutritional, demographic, and economic outcomes, this cohort was reinterviewed in 1991-2, 1994, and 1999.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Center for Galapagos Studies
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The Center for Galapagos Studies (CGS) is the coordinating unit for UNC's Galapagos Initiative, which marshals Carolina's research strengths to address the complex human and environmental pressures in the Galapagos archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and birthplace of evolutionary science.
- Center on Antisocial Drug Dependence: The Genetics of HIV Risk Behaviors
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Carolyn Tucker Halpern, John Hewitt (Overall PI, University of Colorado at Boulder)
The overall goal of this project is to contribute to our understanding of the etiology of individual differences in behavioral disinhibition, the relationship of this to drug abuse and the development of dependence, and the role that these play in the propensity for risky behaviors that may result in STDs, including HIV/AIDS.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts:- Center on Antisocial Drug Dependence: The Genetics of HIV Risk Behaviors [ Carolyn Tucker Halpern, John Hewitt (Overall PI, University of Colorado at Boulder) ]
- China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)
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This project was designed to examine the effects of the health, nutrition, and family planning policies and programs implemented by national and local governments and to see how the social and economic transformation of Chinese society is affecting the health and nutritional status of its population.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Circular Migration and Its Long-Term Implications
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The research examines the determinants of patterns of young adult migration, and the consequences of these patterns on place of residence at age 30.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Demographic Data Sharing and Archiving
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The specific aims of this project are to: (1) provide investigators with tools that will enable them to disseminate public access versions of their data; (2) provide investigators with tools and strategies for the dissemination of restricted-access data (3) assist investigators in ensuring that potential users can locate their data, get support in all the stages of acquisition and use, and receive appropriate training in data use; (4) provide long-term secure archiving of public-use and restricted use data, in order to ensure that the data are permanently preserved for future use; and (5) improve the science of data sharing and archiving through a program of research and development in key areas.
Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR)
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The Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR) program promotes research on the demography and economics of aging at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Administered through the Carolina Population Center, the program helps researchers with funding, proposals, seminar sponsorship, and travel.
Current CPC Grants and Contracts:- Demography and Economics of Aging and the Life Course (P30) [ Donna Gilleskie ]
- Demography of Aging and the Life Course
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Training grant in the demography of aging and the life course as a special component in a long-standing training program in interdisciplinary population research.
Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Dietary Patterns and Obesity Risk among Latino Infants & Toddlers in North Carolina
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This study will be the first comprehensive study of Latino immigrant women infant feeding and obesity with a focus on a new immigrant receiving community, North Carolina.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Doctoral Training in Nutrition Epidemiology (Fellowship Award for Daisy Zamora)
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Barry M. Popkin, Daisy Zamora
This NRSA award for Daisy Zamora focuses on diet-induced obesity and its application to public health in both national and international settings. The research focuses on the physical and social environmental factors that play a role in the development of obesity.
Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Does Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh Raise Exposure to E. coli and Rotavirus? Subcontract from Columbia University.
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Michael E. Emch, Marc Serre
The premise of this project is that the microbial contamination of shallow groundwater in a densely populated rural setting such as Bangladesh is a significant, but overlooked, factor that affects the distribution of certain forms of diarrheal disease. This premise will be systematically addressed with field data by comparing the behavior of two organisms, Shigella and rotavirus, both of which are leading causes of diarrheal disease in rural Bangladesh, as well as the fecal indicators E. coli and Bateroides, across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Dynamically Integrating Macro and Micro Processes
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This project will develop tools to study social processes involving individuals, households, social networks, and communities in relation to health. The application of these tools will help us better understand and interpret the research literature connecting community factors with health outcomes and provide a complement to the standard statistical approaches.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Dynamics of Economics & the Built Environment: Diet, Activity & Obesity
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This study will examine how key contextual factors, in particular economic and modifiable built environmental factors, affect dietary intake and physical activity patterns, and in turn, obesity dynamics.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Ecuador Projects
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Richard E. Bilsborrow, Stephen J. Walsh
This program investigates the social, economic, and demographic effects on land use change among colonist and indigenous communities in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Effects of Cash Transfer and Community Mobilization in Young South African Women
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This project will determine the effect of an innovative, multi-level HIV prevention intervention that will jointly address both structural and social factors that contribute to young women's increased vulnerability to HIV.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Emerging Disparities in Chronic Disease Risk
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Jon M. Hussey, Narayan Sastry (University of Michigan)
The goal of this project is to examine early life influences on racial and ethnic disparities in chronic disease risk from an interdisciplinary perspective, utilizing data from the Add Health study.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts:- Emerging Disparities in Chronic Disease Risk [ Jon M. Hussey, Narayan Sastry (University of Michigan) ]
- Genetic/Epigenetic Markers, Social Contexts, Lifecourse and Risky Health Behavior
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The overall challenge for our project is to integrate genetic polymorphisms, epigenetic markers, social contextual measures, and developmental periods into analysis of risky health behaviors.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - HSD: Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Parks as Agents of Change in Eastern & Southern Africa
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Paul W. Leslie, J. Terrence McCabe, University of Colorado at Boulder Abraham C. Goldman, University of Florida
This project aims to examine the inter-relationship of livelihood diversification and social and environmental change outside protected areas in eastern and southern Africa.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts:- HSD: Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Parks as Agents of Change in Eastern & Southern Africa [ Paul W. Leslie, J. Terrence McCabe, University of Colorado at Boulder Abraham C. Goldman, University of Florida ]
- HSD: Marginality in a Marginal Environment: An Agent-Based Approach to Population-Environment Relationships
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The investigators undertaking this interdisciplinary research project hypothesize that across multiple social and spatial-temporal scales, marginal populations are especially likely to be affected by weather-related events, partly because of their location in marginal environments and also because of dynamic feedbacks involving human behavior. To test this hypothesis, the investigators will construct an agent-based simulation model for Nang Rong, a study site in Northeast Thailand with unusually detailed data.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - IDOC - Inter-Disciplinary Obesity Center
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The Inter-Disciplinary Obesity Center (IDOC) addresses obesity within a complex, individualized system of proximate and distal biological and environmental factors using an intensive interdisciplinary approach.
- Immigration and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustment
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With quarterly individual and firm-level administrative data on the earnings and geographic location of workers from the newly available Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data, this project will model the process of labor market adjustment by following individual workers over time.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Improving nutritional status and health of infants and lactating women through the use of Lipid Based Nutrition Supplements (LNS): Evidence from a longitudinal, randomized trial in Lilongwe, Malawi
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Our main goal is to provide the scientific evidence to support the broad use of low-cost LNS to enhance the nutritional status of women and children.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Infant Care Project
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This research examines behavioral and environmental factors that significantly influence infant health outcomes in the first two years of life. The study is currently being conducted among African-American mother-infant pairs in North Carolina.
- Integration of Spatial and Social Network Analysis in Vaccine Trials
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This project will develop and test spatial analytical and social network analysis methods for vaccine trials and disease transmission modeling.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Training in Population and Environment
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An integrative graduate education, research, and training IGERT program in population and environment, with a focus on land use and land cover change.
Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - LAMHA - Latino Adolescent Migration, Health and Adaptation Project
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This project is a mixed-method, descriptive study of the mental health status and needs of immigrant youth and their families.
- Life Course Studies
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These studies relate human development to the life course in changing environments, with emphasis on educational processes or linkages, e.g., socialization and mastery learning.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Maternal Genetic Variation and Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
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Andrew F. Olshan, Stephanie Engel (Overall PI, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine)
This study promises to generate a markedly enhanced understanding of the genetic epidemiology of preterm, SGA and PIH. This information will provide a foundation for studying other adverse pregnancy outcomes with shared biological mechanisms.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts:- Maternal Genetic Variation and Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes [ Andrew F. Olshan, Stephanie Engel (Overall PI, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine) ]
- MEASURE Evaluation
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Examines the impact of a wide range of activities to improve human health and well-being, with a focus on family planning, maternal and child health and nutrition, and the prevention of HIV/STDs.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative
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The Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, a multi-country program targeting the urban poor, improves contraceptive choice and increases access to high quality, voluntary family planning. Because 1 in 3 urban residents live in slums, many beyond the reach of health services, the URHI aims to increase the equitable distribution of family planning services. The Initiative links country-level consortia with evaluation experts on the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project who will identify the most effective country-level approaches, facilitate knowledge sharing, and build a robust evidence base to shape future urban family planning, reproductive health, and integrated maternal and newborn health programs.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Nang Rong Projects
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Barbara Entwisle, Ronald R. Rindfuss Stephen J. Walsh
These studies were conducted for monitoring and understanding demographic and social changes occurring in Nang Rong, Thailand.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - National Children's Study - North Carolina Study Center
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The National Children's Study Vanguard Center in Duplin County, NC is part of a nationally representative study examining social, behavioral, biological, community and environmental factors that may affect children's health and development from the prenatal period through young adulthood.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts:- National Children's Study, Cumberland County [ Barbara Entwisle ]
- The National Children's Study [ Barbara Entwisle, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Nancy Dole (Carolina Population Center) ]
- The National Children's Study - Duplin County Vanguard Center [ Barbara Entwisle, Nancy Dole, Co-PI (Carolina Population Center) ]
- National Study of Youth and Religion
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This study examines continuity and change over time in religious affiliations, beliefs and practices of American youth. It also explores links between these religious dynamics and other aspects of youth's lives, including subjective well-being, family processes, educational achievement, and career development.
- Nutrition Transition Program
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This program involves a set of research projects studying the rapid increases in inactivity and obesity, and the associated rise in noncommunicable diseases, that have occurred along with other rapid social and economic changes in the developing world.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Obesity Development and CVD Risk Factor Clustering in Filipino Women & Offspring
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This research aims to identify determinants of weight gain and development of cardiovascular disease risk factors in an Asian population undergoing the nutrition transition.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Partner Violence Norms and HIV Risk-Taking Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
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This study uses secondary data from more than fifteen recent African Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to examine the association between partner violence norms and youth HIV risk and preventive behaviors in sub-Saharan Africa. The information obtained from this study can be used to make recommendations on strategies to reduce youth violence risk with the underlying objective of strengthening HIV prevention programs for youth.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - PIRE Collaborative Research and Training in Social Context, Population Processes, and Environmental Change
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This new interdisciplinary multi-site program is designed to train the next generation of scientists to conduct the international collaborative research needed to address important issues of global environmental change.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Population Research Training
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The objective of this NICHD-NRSA training grant is to develop in CPC trainees the skills needed for carrying out successful population-relevant research, primarily through hands-on collaboration with experienced faculty researchers. The keystone of the training program is an individualized faculty mentor preceptor-trainee relationship. Trainees collaborate with their faculty mentors in population-relevant research.
Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Study (PIN)
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This study examines a range of potential risk factors for preterm birth, focusing primarily on psychosocial stress, physical activity, placental characteristics, infection, nutrition, health behaviors, socioeconomic characteristics, and other health, social, and contextual factors. Factors affecting weight retention in the postpartum period are also examined.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Prenatal Nutrition and Adverse Birth Outcomes in HIV-infected women in Malawi
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This study will describe the patterns and determinants of maternal diet and nutritional status in mid to late pregnancy among HIV-infected women in Lilongwe, Malawi, and relate their diet and nutritional status to birth outcomes, including low birth weight, small-size-for-gestational age at birth (SGA), and preterm births. The study will also evaluate the contribution of a World Food Program food ration given to HIV-infected women, assessing how the food supplement was consumed, whether it enhanced maternal dietary intake and diet quality, and whether it affected nutritional status and birth outcomes.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Religion's Role in the Shaping of Self-Image, Aspirations, and Achievement in Youth
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This study investigates the influence of religion on how youth perceive themselves and prepare for their futures. It focuses on self-image, educational and career aspirations, and educational achievement.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS)
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The RLMS is a household-based longitudinal survey designed to measure the effects of Russian reforms on the economic well-being of households and individuals.
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- Socioeconomic Disparities in Young Adult Health
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This project will use four waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine how socioeconomic status (SES) and other early life factors influence young adult disparities in chronic disease risk.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Southern Immigrant Academic Adaptation Study (SIAA)
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Population-based study of the daily acculturation experiences and academic adaptation of Latino youth in a new receiving community.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - Spatial Health Research Group
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The Spatial Health Research Group focuses on exploring spatio-temporal patterns of disease, primarily infectious diseases of the developing world.
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- TeenWeb: Using the Web to Survey and Inform Urban Adolescents about Health
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TeenWeb examines the ability of the Web to collect information from adolescents and teach them about reproductive health issues, in urban secondary schools in Nairobi, Kenya, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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- The Feasibility of Replacement Feeding as an HIV Prevention Method in Malawi
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The Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral, and Nutrition (BAN) study is an on-going, randomized controlled trial in Lilongwe, Malawi that is evaluating antiretroviral and nutrition interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV during breastfeeding. Using quantitative data from the on-going BAN Study, this project will determine overall nutrient adequacy of the infant diet at 7-12 months.
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Current CPC Grants and Contracts: - The Geography of Avian Influenza Evolution: Spatial and Temporal Relationships Between Virus Genes and Human-Environment Factors
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The project will develop tools to study AIV evolution and the ecosystems factors in which it is associated. The ultimate goal of this effort is to enhance basic understanding of human-environment ecosystem drivers of influenza viral evolution.
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