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Understanding Pathways from Implementation to Sustainment: A Longitudinal, Mixed Methods Analysis of Promising Practices in the VHA
April 22, 2024April 2024 QMLC newsletter
Postdoctoral opportunity measurement structural racism NIH funded grant
April 22, 2024Please find below an exciting opportunity at University of Maryland for a postdoctoral fellow interested in working on a newly awarded NIH R01. The work is related to the measurement of structural racism and health inequalities. This time, we are looking for a person with training in measurement theory. More info about the grant can…
Senate bill introduced based on research of Global Food Research Program
April 22, 2024Senators Sanders (I-VT) and Booker (D-NJ) introduced a Senate bill on childhood diabetes that was based on research from the UNC Global Food Research Program as well as Lindsey Smith Taillie's testimony in the Senate last December. Taillie is a Faculty Fellow at CPC. She recently authored an op-ed on the bill, which was published…
CPC at PAA 2024
April 10, 2024The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be April 17-20, 2024 in Columbus, OH. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, CPC external faculty affiliates, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, staff members and others across UNC-Chapel Hill. The final program is available (pdf). Thursday, April 18, 2024…
Gemayel receives Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
April 8, 2024Predoctoral Trainee Georgina Gemayel received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award. Gemayel is a MA/doctoral student in the department of Geography, advised by Clark Gray. Other recipients include Adriana Wisniewski (Biological Anthropology), advised by Amanda Thompson and Athena Owirodu, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology.
Clark Gray paper receives 2023 IPUMS Research Award
April 8, 2024Clark Gray and Maia Call received the 2023 IPUMS Research Award in the category of published research using IPUMS Spatial data. Their paper, "Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics" was published in Population and Environment in April 2023. Gray is a population and human-environment geographer interested in the interactions between…
Barbara Entwisle has been named incoming Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC) for the US Census Bureau
March 27, 2024Barbara Entwisle, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology and a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center (CPC), has been named the incoming Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC) for the US Census Bureau. [caption id="attachment_144806" align="alignright" width="225"] Barbara Entwisle[/caption] Dr. Entwisle was originally appointed to the CSAC in 2021. The committee provides advice on…
Price tag messaging can amplify the benefit of taxes
January 16, 2024