The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected six UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program in 2019. There are now 67 faculty fellows who sit across 16 academic departments. Douglas Lee Lauen is an Associate Professor in the … Read more

Depression is a leading cause of disability and disease for people around the world. It often begins during adolescence, especially for females, may continue or recur in adulthood and tends to become a lifetime chronic health condition.

Douglas Lee Lauen joined the Carolina Population Center as a Faculty Fellow in 2019.

Sean Sylvia joined the Carolina Population Center as a Faculty Fellow in 2019. Department: Health Policy and Management Hometown: Prattville, AL Tell us what projects you’re currently working on. I’m currently working on a few different projects, mostly in China. … Read more

Jessica Houston Su joined the Carolina Population Center as a Faculty Fellow in 2019. Department: Sociology, adjunct in Public Policy Hometown: Hinsdale, NH – a small town with a population of 4,000 people Tell us what projects you’re currently working … Read more

Faculty Fellow Robert Hummer has co-authored a new book on population health. Over the past 30 years, the life expectancy of people born in the United States has not kept pace compared to other large and wealthy countries. At the … Read more

Dr. Hargrove, an Assistant Professor of Sociology, looks at intersecting social inequalities and BMI trajectories from adolescence to early adulthood. CPC Faculty Fellow Taylor Hargrove has received a NIH Matilda White Early Stage Investigator Award and was honored at the … Read more

This text was originally published on the NC TraCS website. Allison E. Aiello, PhD, Director of the Integrating Special Populations Program at the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute and Professor of Epidemiology at the Gillings School … Read more

The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected five UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program. The Fellows are CPC’s permanent and vital core, and the center devotes its resources to facilitating their research. Currently, there are 68 Fellows … Read more

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant entitled “Health Disparities: Inflammatory Response, Immune Function, and Environment (In)Congruence” to Carolina Population Center (CPC) Faculty Fellow Taylor Hargrove and former CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Lauren Gaydosh. This funding will allow researchers … Read more