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October 16, 2023
CPC at University Research Week
October 11, 2023University Research Week will take place at UNC from October 23-27. You can see all events here. Below, we have listed all of the events that feature an affiliate of the Carolina Population Center. Galapagos Seed Grant Program 2023-34 Q&A October 24, 2023 3:00-4:30 More information These awards are designed to foster the development of…
New research looks at kindergarten vaccination rates in California
October 6, 2023In 2016, a California policy (Senate Bill 277) eliminated nonmedical vaccination exemptions for school entry. Afterwards medical exemptions for kindergarteners increased, and California tightened restrictions on medical exemptions through two Senate bills (collectively SB276) passed in 2019. A new research letter in JAMA published on October 2 evaluates how medical exemptions changed, and where kindergarteners…
D4I at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference 2023
October 2, 2023
The Psychosocial Resources Caregivers Need to Provide Nurturing Care
October 2, 2023Faculty Fellow Stephanie Martin recently co-authored a blog post entitled “The Psychosocial Resources Caregivers Need to Provide Nurturing Care: How Can We Help?” for USAID Advancing Nutrition, the Agency’s flagship multi-sectorial nutrition project. Martin and other researchers detail how nutrition programs seeking to create lasting change must focus not only on resources like food, money,…
UNC Awarded $90 Million Global Health PEARL Project to Support Localized Generation and Use of Evidence and Data
September 27, 2023CHAPEL HILL, NC—The Carolina Population Center (CPC) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a new $90 million cooperative agreement by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement the Global Health Program Evaluation, Analysis, Research, and Learning (GH PEARL) project. The five-year project is housed within CPC’s Measure…
New report on reducing intergenerational poverty from NASEM
September 25, 2023The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recently convened a committee of experts to conduct a comprehensive study of intergenerational poverty in the United States. [caption id="attachment_130945" align="alignright" width="225"] Fenaba Addo[/caption] Faculty Fellow Fenaba Addo served as a member of the Committee, which released a report this week detailing the drivers of long-term…
