First-year college students are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety significantly more often than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study is based on the experiences of 419 Carolina students, and reflects the … Read more
Alyssa LaFaro, Endeavors, Monday, April 12th, 2021 Graduate student Rachel Woodul spent two years researching what might happen to hospital capacity during a pandemic. When COVID-19 arrived, she compared what her model — and others’ — got wrong to improve how … Read more
Jess Stanford, Demographic Analyst with Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center, was featured on the Independent Insurance Agents of NC podcast discussing the soon-to-arrive 2020 Census data and what it’s likely to show in terms of our state’s growing … Read more
Carolina Demography’s report on vaccine hesitation in NC was featured in an April 21, 2021 piece on NC Health News entitled “Coronavirus Today – Apr. 21 — Most COVID restrictions to be lifted in June if two-thirds of adults are … Read more
Carolina Demography’s research on the educational attainment pipeline in NC was recently featured in a WRAL column by Mary Ann Wolf, the president and executive director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina.
April 5, 2021 COVID-19 has placed a disproportionate burden on communities of color, reflected in the higher rates of positive cases, long-term health effects and deaths. While public health leaders analyze and quantify these inequities, a group of UNC epidemiologists … Read more
Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was featured in a New York Times piece on how epidemiologists are planning to vacation with their unvaccinated kids.
Manish Kumar, the Senior Technical Specialist-Health System Strengthening in the USAID-MEASURE Evaluation project, will be participating in the kick-off policy workshop organized by the Pan American Health Organization. He also recently participated in the IS4H conference organized by PAHO and … Read more
In a CBS17 report on the drastic improvement in NC Latinos’ vaccination rates, Carolina Demography’s work on the Latino population in NC is highlighted.
Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson has written a guest essay for Insight on how she navigated the difficult and complicated information landscape early in the pandemic to puzzle through whether to send her two children to childcare.
