CPC at the PAA 2017 Annual Meeting
Apr 5, 2017 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 27-29 at the Hilton Chicago. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff members. … Read more
CPC Fellow Bentley Selected to Win the 2017 Triangle Global Health Champion Award
Apr 3, 2017 Margaret “Peggy” Bentley has been selected to win the 2017 Triangle Global Health Champion Award from the Triangle Global Health Consortium. On April 3, the Triangle Global Health Consortium announced the 2017 award winners and issued a … Read more
CPC Fellow Angeles honored with 2017 “Celebrate Teaching” Award from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health
Mar 27, 2017 Gustavo Angeles received a 2017 “Celebrate Teaching!” Award from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Angeles is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow. Angeles’s students nominated him to receive the award. He was among eight faculty … Read more
Judith Kovenock, 1933-2017
Mar 9, 2017 Judy Kovenock’s imprint on the Carolina Population Center is etched in every aspect of the center’s success and in the outstanding staff who support its research and training. Judy came to CPC in 1968, two years after … Read more
CPC Fellow Gray Receives Research Excellence Award from the Association of American Geographers
Mar 9, 2017 The Association of American Geographers Population Geography Specialty Group has chosen Clark Gray to receive the Research Excellence Award. Gray is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor of Geography at UNC. The award … Read more
Translating Data into Health Recommendations: MEASURE Evaluation Project Mentors 14 Zambian Health Professionals
Feb 24, 2017 Health data are essential to understanding what is working in a health system and what is not. Data alone, however, are just numbers, unless transformed into compelling information products that communicate and lead to action to improve … Read more
Demographic Changes from the Lens of a Demographer: Q & A with Dr. Rebecca Tippett
Jan 23, 2017 Rebecca Tippett, Director of Carolina Demography at UNC’s Carolina Population Center, recently participated in a strategic planning conference with the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. ZSR posted a summary of Tippett’s analysis and remarks. Excerpt: “We asked Dr. … Read more
MEASURE Evaluation experts share thinking on global health challenges in a new series of short podcasts
Jan 19, 2017 Experts at the MEASURE Evaluation project at CPC develop approaches and conduct research for health information systems strengthening and improved public health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries across the globe. We gather the best of their … Read more
Speizer to examine sustainability of family planning program activities in urban Nigeria
Nov 22, 2016 CPC Fellow Ilene Speizer was recently awarded a new project that will assess longer-term implications of family planning funding in urban Nigeria. Speizer will collaborate with CPC Fellow David Guilkey. Ilene Speizer, PhD, research professor in the … Read more
Research Published in PLOS Medicine by CPC Fellow Thirumurthy Shows Giving Women HIV Self-Tests Promotes Male Partner Testing
Nov 8, 2016 The paper reports results from the CPC research study led by Harsha Thirumurthy: The Use of HIV Self-tests to Promote Partner and Couples Testing: A Randomized Trial. Thirumurthy is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow. Read the … Read more