The United States should require prominent warning labels on the front of product packaging to alert consumers when food products contain high levels of unhealthy nutrients, according to an October 1 2020 JAMA Viewpoint article. The piece, coauthored by Faculty … Read more

The 2020 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) Conference was held virtually from September 30, 2020 – October 2, 2020. All predoctoral trainees and postdoctoral scholars in the Biosocial Training Program attend IAPHS. This year, Faculty Fellow Robert Hummer, … Read more

Assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience Keely Muscatell’s research addresses the topic of how race-related stress affects the brain among Black Americans with schizophrenia.

From COVID-19 risk to recovery, the odds are stacked against those with obesity, and a new study led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill raises concerns about the impact of obesity on the effectiveness of a future COVID-19 vaccine.

FAQs for “Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: a nonexperimental prospective study,” which will publish in PLOS Medicine July 28, 2020.

Read related FAQ. Mandatory nutrition warning labels on packaged junk foods may lead manufactures to reformulate their products with less sodium and sugar, exposing consumers to fewer harmful nutrients in their diets. In new research published in PLOS Medicine, researchers … Read more

The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected four UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program in 2020. There are now 71 Fellows who sit across 16 academic departments.

Meng-Jung Lin is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and a Predoctoral Trainee at the Carolina Population Center. CPC intern Ryan Holmes conducted this interview in the spring of 2020. Q:  Tell me about yourself—how did you land … Read more

In June, Fellows Angela Parcesepe and Shu Wen Ng were each awarded seed grants to investigate the impacts of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic on US families. Parcesepe’s mixed method study aims to generate knowledge and advance understanding of the impact of … Read more

Franchino-Olsen is the first author on a new study, “Minor sex trafficking of girls with disabilities,” published in the International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare.