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CPC Postdoctoral Scholars
Academic Year 2012-13
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- Sandra Albrecht, Ph.D.
Epidemiological Science, University of Michigan, 2011
- Email: ssalb@live.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 843-6859
514 CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- Cardiovascular health consequences of rapid social and environmental change; migration; social patterning of chronic disease; health disparities among U.S. Latinos; sociocultural context and biological expression
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, Nutrition
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- Benjamin Capistrant, Sc.D.
Social Epidemiology, Harvard University, 2012
- Email: bcapistr@live.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-5891
401B CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- Social determinants of aging and non-communicable diseases in lower and middle-income countries; disability; family caregiving; social support; health disparities; cardiovascular disease epidemiology
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Dr. Linda Adair, Nutrition
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- Jason Davis, Ph.D.
Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010
Curriculum Vitae
- Email: jdavis36@live.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-5969
502 CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- International migration; remittances; fertility; children’s well-being (education and nutrition); land use change in Latin America
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Richard Bilsborrow, Biostatistics and Clark Gray, Geography
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- Veronica Escamilla, Ph.D.
Geography, UNC-CH, 2011
- Email: escamill@email.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) TBA
302 CPC South |
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- Research focus:
- Spatial analysis, population-environment interactions, and infectious disease tramsmission
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Dr. Michael Emch, Geography
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- Mariaelisa Graff, Ph.D.
Nutritional Epidemiology, Emory University, 2006
- Email: migraff@unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-6784
304D CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- Gene-environment interactions and metabolic risk factors: the
influence of lifestyle and social factors with genotype
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, Nutrition
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- Sonia Lizeth Hernández-Cordero, Ph.D.
International Nutrition,
Cornell University, 2006
- Email: scordero@live.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 843-6913
207 CPC South |
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- Research focus:
- Maternal and child nutrition; nutrition transition in Mexico; design, implementation and evaluation of strategies to prevent obesity and chronic diseases in Mexico and developing countries.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Barry Popkin, Sociology
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- Mosi Ifatunji, Ph.D.
Sociology,
University of Illinois-Chicago, 2011
- Email: ifatunji@email.unc.edu
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536 CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- Racial ideology and inequality; immigration and migration; and intersectionality.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Ken Bollen, Sociology
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- Jennifer Buher Kane, Ph.D.
Sociology and Demography,
The Pennsylvania State University, 2011
Curriculum Vitae
- Email: jbkane@unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 843-6257
504 CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- Family; health disparities; fertility; father involvement; quantitative methods
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Kathleen Mullan Harris and Phil Morgan, Sociology
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- Haeng-Shin Lee, Ph.D.
Food and Nutrition,
Sookmyoung Women's University, 2001
- Email: haengsin@live.unc.edu
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through December 2012
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- Research focus:
- The nutrition transition in Korea
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Barry Popkin, Nutrition
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- Ting Li, Ph.D.
Quantitative Ecology, University of Washington, 2011
- Email: tingli@email.unc.edu
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401A CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- Mathematical modeling for mortality and disease patterns; quantitative methods for exploring the interactions between social & environmental factors and heath outcomes.
CPC Faculty Preceptor: Dr. Yang Yang, Sociology
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- Carolina Perez-Heydrich, Ph.D.
Infectious Diseases and Pathology,
The University of Florida, 2010
- Email: caroph@email.unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 843-0252
303 CPC South |
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- Research focus:
- Human-environment interactions on population health outcomes; infectious disease ecology; animal population health; environmental health; quantitative epidemiology
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Drs. Michael Emch, Geography and Amy Herring, Biostatistics
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- Kristin Young, Ph.D.
Anthropology, University of Kansas, 2009
- Email: kristin.young@unc.edu
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Phone: (919) 966-6784
304D CPC East |
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- Research focus:
- TBD
CPC Faculty Preceptors: Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, Nutrition
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