New research from the Global Food Research Program at UNC-Chapel Hill finds that the food and beverage sector in Chile did not face significant job losses or wage decreases 18 months after implementation of its food labeling and advertising law.

Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was quoted in Governing Emergency Management’s recent piece on Stanford Medicine’s vaccine algorithm.

Gordon-Larsen, a Faculty Fellow at CPC, leads the Obesity Creativity Hub, a diverse group of researchers from nutrition to behavioral health to data science who are working collaboratively to solve the challenge of obesity.

With funding from the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory, Powers, UNC epidemiologist and co-principal investigator Allison Aiello, and their team will conduct a two-part study to determine what policies and practices schools have developed to minimize the spread of COVID-19 and to gauge how teachers in those schools feel they are working.

The world has been living with the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly a year and we still have so many questions. Even when questions are answered, however, the new knowledge may not filter out to everyone who needs it. Enter researchers … Read more

Penny Gordon-Larsen, CPC Faculty Fellow and associate dean for research at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, joins WRAL to discuss the dashboard. (WRAL)

Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson published an essay “Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns: the Complexities of COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization” in Insight, a new publication started by UNC SILS Associate Professor Zeynep Tufekci.

This is UNC’s first GCR award, and it’s one that aligns perfectly with Carolina’s recent implementation of the Institute for Convergent Science (ICS). First concepted in 2018, ICS fosters collaboration among researchers in the life, health, and biomedical sciences to accelerate new knowledge.

This piece was originally published by UNC Research on October 28, 2020. As schools across the state operate online or with limited in-person learning plans, North Carolina families face complex concerns about viral transmission, mental health, educational challenges, and childcare … Read more

New Add Health data: In August 2020, Add Health released the following datasets: Wave V Demographics – Home Exam, Wave V Glucose Homeostasis, Wave V Lipids, Wave V Renal Function, Wave V Inflammation and Immune Function, Wave V Biomarker Weight, … Read more