CPC at 60: Barry Popkin reflects on a career built in partnership with the Carolina Population Center
By Grayson Mendenhall gkm4unc@email.unc.edu As the Carolina Population Center (CPC) celebrates its 60th anniversary, few researchers better illustrate the center’s impact than Dr. Barry Popkin, whose nearly five decades of scholarship helped shape global understanding of nutrition, maternal and child … Read more
Study found delivering medical supplies by drone did not measurably reduce shortages of most essential medicines
CPC Fellows Lindsey Smith Taillie and Colin West receive 2026-27 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awards
Congratulations to Carolina Population Center Fellows Lindsey Smith Taillie and Colin West for receiving U.S. Fulbright Scholar awards for 2026-2027! The awards are given to scholars, faculty, researchers and administrators to conduct research abroad and broaden international educational partnerships. Taillie, a … Read more
CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie says industry lobbying led the government to delay publishing a definition of ultra-processed foods
Meet the Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows elected in 2026
The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected seven UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program in 2026. Payal Chakraborty Dr. Chakraborty is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on understanding the impact of structural marginalization (e.g., discriminatory policies, restrictive … Read more
CPC Fellow Kat Tumlinson: Country ownership without fiscal justice is responsibility without resources
CPC Fellow Ashu Handa appointed as Chief Economist for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Congratulations to CPC Fellow Ashu Handa who recently went on leave to serve as Chief Economist and Director of Economic & Social Policy for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)! He is based at UNICEF’s Global Child Poverty Center in … Read more
Rising temperatures and more houses in the woods have made encounters with ticks more common, says CPC Fellow Ross Boyce.
Congratulations to CPC Fellow Miyuki Hino for receiving a 2026 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement!
CPC Fellow and Associate Professor Miyuki Hino was awarded a 2026 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. Dr. Hino is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and an adjunct assistant professor … Read more
Congratulations to CPC Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris, this year’s recipient of the ASA’s Sociology of Population Distinguished Career Award!
Few scholars have shaped the sociology of population as profoundly as Kathleen Mullan Harris. As Director and Principal Investigator of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) from 2004 to 2021, and through her continuing leadership … Read more