Current Grants and Contracts
The following is the full list of currently funded research grants and contracts administered by CPC, supported by federal and non-federal agencies and foundations. The project descriptions offer a survey of the multidisciplinary nature of CPC research and its far-reaching influence in the population field.
Center Grants • Research Grants • Training Grants
Center Grants
| Principal Investigator(s) | Title of Grant/Contract | Description | Source | Grant/Contract Number | Project Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Morgan | Carolina Population Center | The Carolina Population Center (CPC) at UNC-Chapel Hill seeks renewal of a five-year grant under the NICHD R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program. Established in 1966, CPC draws its current body of 58 elected faculty fellows from 15 departments and five schools. Eight signature themes collectively describe the population research interests of the faculty: Sexual Behavior, Contraceptive Use, and Reproductive Health; Fertility, Families, and Children; Life Course Perspectives; Biological and Social Interactions; Population Movement, Diversity, and Inequality; Place, Space, and Health; Population and Environment; and Population and Health Policies and Programs. Participation in Center activities is broad: currently, 18 different faculty fellows in addition to the Director are taking a role in CPC administrative activities; over the past five years, 40 fellows have served as preceptors (advisors) to CPC pre- and postdoctoral trainees; 45 fellows have been PI or co- investigator on a population-relevant grant or contract. An outstanding research infrastructure is essential to the creativity and productivity of the faculty fellows, their funding record, and research impact. As of fall 2009, CPC's portfolio consisted of 65 funded research projects and 5 supplements. Since 2004, CPC fellows, trainees, and staff published almost 1200 population-relevant articles, chapters, edited volumes, and monographs. Their research addresses the population field and also reaches out to the broader public health community, policy-makers, and the public. CPC faculty fellows also make fundamental contributions to the research infrastructure of the field through major longitudinal data collections based at the Center, such as the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. These innovative studies expand their impact by sharing data through mechanisms that CPC pioneered. Research based at CPC is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary. With the existing web of collaboration as a platform, the Center provides services and support that foster the cross-fertilization of methods, tools, and perspectives in the development of innovative population research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Carolina Population Center supports significant and innovative interdisciplinary social science-oriented research, with the goal of improving the health and well being of the population. Its research themes are: Sexual Behavior, Contraceptive Use, and Reproductive Health; Fertility, Families, and Children; Life Course Perspectives; Biological and Social Interactions; Population Movement, Diversity, and Inequality; Place, Space, and Health: Population and Environment: and Population and Health Policies and Programs. | NIH NICHD | R24HD050924 | 7/11/2005 - 8/31/2015 |
Research Grants
| Principal Investigator(s) | Title of Grant/Contract | Description | Source | Grant/Contract Number | Project Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa | Cash Transfers, Health Insurance and Health Outcomes in Ghana | 3ie | OW3-1075 | 7/1/2011 - 6/30/2013 | |
| Carolyn Tucker Halpern, John Hewitt (Overall PI, University of Colorado at Boulder) | Center on Antisocial Drug Dependence: The Genetics of HIV Risk Behaviors | 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. | NIH/NIDA via University of Colorado at Boulder Subcontract | P60DA011015 | 5/1/2009 - 2/28/2014 |
| Paul W. Leslie | Collaborative Research: Multi-level Response Diversity: Land Use, Livelihood Diversification, and Resilience in Northern Tanzania | National Science Foundation | 7/1/2011 - 6/30/2014 | ||
| Barbara Entwisle | Demographic Data Sharing and Archiving | 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. | University of Michigan Subcontract via NIH/NICHD | U24 HD048404 | 7/1/2004 - 8/31/2014 |
| Barbara Entwisle | Dynamically Integrating Macro and Micro Processes | 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. | NIH NIEHS | R21ES016729 | 9/30/2007 - 6/30/2012 |
| Audrey E. Pettifor | Effects of Cash Transfer and Community Mobilization in Young South African Women | 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. | NIH NIMH | 1R01MH087118 | 7/1/2009 - 4/30/2014 |
| Penny Gordon-Larsen | Emergence of Cardiometabolic Risk Across the Lifecycle in China | This research will develop a full structural model to address complex relationships between diet and activity, weight and waist circumference with blood pressure over 20 years. Findings will further current understanding of the role of broader societal, economic, and environmental contexts in populations at risk. | NIH NHLBI | R01HL108427 | 3/1/2012 - 2/28/2016 |
| Jon M. Hussey, Narayan Sastry (University of Michigan) | Emerging Disparities in Chronic Disease Risk | 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. | University of Michigan Subcontract via NIH/NICHD NICHD | 1 R01 HD058535-01 | 12/1/2008 - 10/31/2013 |
| Penny Gordon-Larsen | Environmental Changes and Health Outcomes across 25 Years: Four US Cities | NIH NHLBI | 9/1/2011 - 8/31/2016 | ||
| Barry M. Popkin | Evaluating U.S. children's food purchases and caloric intake to gauge the food industry's impact on prevention of childhood obesity | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | 6/15/2011 - 7/31/2012 | ||
| Penny Gordon-Larsen | Gene-Environment Interactions and Weight Gain | The objective of this project is to investigate how genes, environment, and gene-environment interactions influence temporal changes in body mass index (BMI) at vulnerable periods of the life cycle. | NIH NICHD | 1R01HD057194 | 9/30/2008 - 6/30/2013 |
| Guang Guo | Genetic/Epigenetic Markers, Social Contexts, Lifecourse and Risky Health Behavior | 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. | NIH NIDA | RC1 DA029425 | 9/30/2009 - 8/31/2012 |
| Penny Gordon-Larsen | Heterogeneity in Cardiometabolic Risk with Obesity: Who Is at Risk? | This study takes advantage of 20-year longitudinal data from approximately 9,000 individuals enrolled in the NIH funded China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), to examine how the timing and duration of obesity and central adiposity shape variability in current cardiometabolic risk underlying the "metabolically healthy - overweight" and the "metabolically at risk - normal weight" phenotypes in children, adolescents, young- and middle-aged adults. | NIH NIDDK | 1 R21 DK089306 | 7/15/2010 - 4/30/2012 |
| Paul W. Leslie, J. Terrence McCabe, University of Colorado at Boulder Abraham C. Goldman, University of Florida | HSD: Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Parks as Agents of Change in Eastern & Southern Africa | This project aims to examine the inter-relationship of livelihood diversification and social and environmental change outside protected areas in eastern and southern Africa. | National Science Foundation | BCS-0624265 | 10/1/2006 - 3/31/2012 |
| Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa | Impact of Social Cash Transfers in Zambia | Consultancy | American Institutes for Research | A10-1668-002 | 6/1/2010 - 5/31/2012 |
| Margaret E. Bentley | 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 | 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. | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | OPP53107 | 9/1/2009 - 8/31/2012 |
| Michael E. Emch | Integration of Spatial and Social Network Analysis in Vaccine Trials | This project will develop and test spatial analytical and social network analysis methods for vaccine trials and disease transmission modeling. | NIH NIAID | R03 AI076748 | 9/4/2009 - 2/29/2012 |
| Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa | Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP) | 3ie | 7/1/2011 - 6/30/2013 | ||
| Siân L. Curtis | MEASURE Phase III Monitoring and Assessment for Results | The objective of MEASURE Phase III Monitoring and Assessment for Results (MMAR-III) is improved collection, analysis and presentation of data to promote better use in planning, policy-making, managing, and monitoring and evaluating population, health and nutrition (PHN) programs. | USAID | 9/30/2008 - 1/29/2014 | |
| David K. Guilkey | Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching its Family Planning and Reproductive Health (FP/RH) Strategy with the goal to increase modern contraceptive prevalence rates in selected urban areas through the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (the "Initiative"). The Initiative involves Country Consortia who will target family planning services to the urban poor to reduce inequity, improve quality of and access to family planning services through integration and private sector programs, and with the aim to increase family planning use. | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 52037 | 1/1/2009 - 1/11/2015 |
| Stephen J. Walsh | Modeling Population-Environment Interactions in a World Heritage Site | To design a data collection and analysis approach that could be analyzed both by ABM and econometric experts to see the extent to which the ABM and statistical approaches give similar results, and if not, why not. | James S. McDonnell Foundation | 220020269 | 9/1/2011 - 9/1/2015 |
| Linda S. Adair | Modeling the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Risk Factors | This project is a novel application of structural equation models to identify the complex pathways through which cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors develop from the prenatal period to young adulthood using data from an ongoing community-based study of a birth cohort from Cebu, Philippines. | NIH NICHD | 1R01HD054501 | 9/18/2008 - 6/30/2013 |
| Barry M. Popkin | Monitoring Social Change: Health, Reproduction, Aging | This grant extends data collection for the China Health and Nutrition Study by two rounds, resulting in data covering a 22-year period (1989-2011). The project monitors economic, social, and behavioral changes in China. The current round of project funding will further enhance the value of this unique survey by adding rounds of data collection in 2009 and 2011 and expanding the scope of the survey to include, for the first time, collection of fasting blood samples (on all children and adults aged 2 and older) for analysis of disease-related biomarkers and DNA, toenail and blood spot samples, and geographic data to permit spatial analysis. | NIH NICHD | 2-R01-HD030880 | 6/1/2008 - 5/31/2013 |
| Linda S. Adair | Multidimensional pathways to healthy aging among Filipino women | This research will identify multiple environmental and lifestyle factors that accumulate over time to influence aging related chronic diseases, disability and psychological health. | NIH NIA | R01AG039443 | 7/1/2011 - 6/30/2016 |
| Barbara Entwisle | National Children's Study, Cumberland County | The National Children's Study aims to identify a national probability sample of 100,000 children, prior to or as early as possible in pregnancy, and follow them for 21 years to explore the causes of a variety of health problems including obesity, injuries, asthma, and developmental delays. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with Duke University and Battelle Memorial Institute, will conduct the study in Cumberland County, North Carolina. | NIH NICHD | HHSN275200800029C | 9/26/2008 - 9/25/2013 |
| Penny Gordon-Larsen | Obesity and Metabolic Risk Disparities: Underlying Food Environment Factors | This project uses longitudinal data to understand the effects of changes in food prices, and availability and access to away-from-home food eateries and food shopping options, on diet, and in turn, weight gain and metabolic risk factors. | NIH NHLBI | R01HL104580 | 8/2/2010 - 6/30/2015 |
| Lisa D. Pearce | PIRE Collaborative Research and Training in Social Context, Population Processes, and Environmental Change | 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. | NIH/NIDA via University of Colorado at Boulder Subcontract | 10/1/2007 - 9/30/2012 | |
| Linda S. Adair | Relating multiple dimensions of stress to CVD risk in Filipino adults | This project is linked to a parent grant funded by NHLBI, titled "Obesity Development and CVD Risk Factor Clustering in Filipino Women & Offspring" (HL085144). This project extends the parent grant's research to examine the role of a wide range of psychosocial, environmental and behavioral factors that represent multiple dimensions of stress. | NIH FIC | 1R03TW008133 | 8/1/2008 - 4/30/2012 |
| Lisa D. Pearce | Religion's Role in the Shaping of Self-Image, Aspirations, and Achievement in Youth | 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. | W.T. Grant Foundation | 7/1/2005 - 6/30/2012 | |
| Carolyn Tucker Halpern | Sexual Behavior Trajectories from Adolescence to Adulthood | Despite public policy emphasis on a pathway defined by abstinence until marriage, there is little prospective documentation of sexual trajectories from adolescence into adulthood or information about the enduring developmental and health implications, if any, of different sexual and romantic pathways. Using data from Waves I - IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), this project will: 1) examine trajectories defined by: I) timing, emergence of sexual acts, and temporal spacing; II) partner accumulation, frequency of activity and risk-taking (level and slope); and III) changes in indicators of sexual orientation over time; and determine whether trajectories vary by biological sex, race/ethnicity, or physical disability; 2) test hypotheses derived from Life Course and other developmental theory about how the interactions of biological characteristics, psychological factors, and life experiences sustain or change sexual and romantic trajectories across the life course; and 3) identify concurrent and later health correlates of trajectories, and where associations exist, test hypotheses about mediating mechanisms. | NIH NICHD | 1R01HD057046 | 3/1/2010 - 2/28/2015 |
| Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa | Social Cash Transfers, AIDS Mitigation and HIV Prevention in Kenya | This project will assess the impact of the Government of Kenya's Cash Transfer for Orphan and Vulnerable Children Program (CT-OVC) on the prevention of HIV. | NIH NIMH | 1/1/2011 - 12/31/2013 | |
| Jon M. Hussey | Socioeconomic Disparities in Young Adult Health | 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. | NIH NICHD | R01HD057073 | 9/30/2009 - 8/31/2012 |
| Barbara Entwisle, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Nancy Dole (Carolina Population Center) | The National Children's Study | The study will measure the effects of environmental, social, biological and behavioral factors on child health. The goal is to understand causes for a range of health problems, including asthma, developmental delays, autism, and obesity. The study will collect information from families about their health, their activities, and their neighborhoods. Various biological samples, along with air and water at home and in schools will also be collected. | NIH NICHD | HHSN267200700049C | 10/1/2007 - 9/30/2012 |
| Barbara Entwisle, Nancy Dole, Co-PI (Carolina Population Center) | The National Children's Study - Duplin County Vanguard Center | The goal of the National Children's Study is to identify sample of 100,000 children, as early as possible in pregnancy, and follow them for 21 years to address the causes of a variety of health problems including obesity, injuries, asthma, and developmental delays. | NIH NICHD | Contract #HHSN27520050341 | 9/30/2005 - 1/31/2011 |
| Kathleen Mullan Harris | The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health | This study will follow up in the year 2000, the nationally representative sample studied between 1994 and 1996 for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The primary purpose of the follow-up is to determine the later health effects of adolescence as our study participants move into young adulthood. The project's long-term goal is to provide the research community with a public use dataset that, when linked to the existing Add Health data set now in the public domain, will provide a powerful scientific tool for the study of health transitions in adolescence and young adulthood. | NIH NICHD | P01-HD031921 | 3/1/1997 - 6/30/2012 |
| Siân L. Curtis | USAID APHIA II Kenya | The overall objective of the APHIA II Evaluation project is to strengthen the capacity of the Kenya Ministry of Health national health management information system and USG implementing partners' in Kenya monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems to collect and use HIV/AIDS, reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP), and maternal and child health (MCH) data. | USAID | 7/1/2008 - 6/30/2013 | |
| Glen H. Elder, Jr. | Youth and the Great Recession | Spencer Foundation | 9/1/2010 - 8/31/2012 |
Training Grants
| Principal Investigator(s) | Title of Grant/Contract | Description | Source | Grant/Contract Number | Project Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry M. Popkin | Nutrition-related NCD Prevention Training in China | NIH FIC | 8/15/2011 - 7/31/2016 | ||
| Carolyn Tucker Halpern | Population Research Training | 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. | NIH NICHD | 5-T32-HD07168 | 7/1/1979 - 4/30/2015 |
Total Grants: 40
