Sep 17, 2014 CPC Fellows Barry M. Popkin and Shu Wen Ng have published two articles in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine about their analysis of data related to the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. The research project Evaluating U.S. … Read more
Sep 15, 2014 The UNC College of Arts & Sciences issued a news release on The Carolina Population Center study, “Implementing Health Care Reform in North Carolina: Reaching and Enrolling Immigrants and Refugees.” CPC Fellow Krista Perreira co-authored this report. … Read more
What did the Carolina Population Center do this summer? Everyone at CPC participated in a major office move. Over 300 people affiliated with the center moved between December 2013 and June 2014. The move was required because of the forthcoming … Read more
Jul 30, 2014 The Triangle Global Health Consortium is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Annual Global Health Conference: Innovation in Global Health: Bridging the innovation gap between research and implementation September 14-15, … Read more
Jul 21, 2014 Male circumcision has been proven to be an effective HIV prevention strategy and in 2007, UNAIDS and WHO recommended the scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa. Harsha Thirumurthy tested one scale-up approach with uncircumcised … Read more
Jul 11, 2014 UNC Global released an announcement about recent research conducted by Krista Perreira. Perreira is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and a UNC Professor of Public Policy. The Color of Health in Latin America: Individuals with Darker … Read more
The United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Global Health awarded MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Population Center and its partners, Futures Group, ICF International, John Snow Incorporated, Management Sciences … Read more
Jun 30, 2014 Two of fourteen Science and Technology Pioneers Prizes were awarded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Science and Technology to the MEASURE Evaluation project, implemented by the Carolina Population Center. The prize … Read more
May 5, 2014 Carolina Population Center Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Harris is the James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the … Read more
Apr 22, 2014 The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) announced the results of a major global study that could “upend conceptions of how forests, people interact.” CPC Fellow Pamela Jagger co-authored two of the five papers that are part … Read more
