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Trainee Spotlight: Max Reason

June 3, 2020

Max Reason is a statistician at the United States Department of Agriculture. He is a former trainee at the Carolina Population Center and recently received his PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This interview … Read more

Response to Recent Events

June 2, 2020

Dear faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the Carolina Population Center, In the past months police killings of African Americans in multiple states and the differential impact of the many facets of the COVID19 pandemic on people of color … Read more

Trainee Spotlight: Rachel Wilbur

May 3, 2020

Rachel Wilbur is a fourth year doctoral candidate in Human Biology and Predoctoral Trainee in the Biosocial Program at CPC. She is interested in the impact of historical trauma and social determinants on the health of contemporary Native American and … Read more

Can social media help track the spread of disease?

April 7, 2020

In a recent article, UNC-Chapel Hill researchers explored how to effectively and ethically include social media and broader Internet tracking as part of public health surveillance efforts.