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The Psychosocial Resources Caregivers Need to Provide Nurturing Care
Faculty Fellow Stephanie Martin recently co-authored a blog post entitled “The Psychosocial Resources Caregivers Need to Provide Nurturing Care: How Can We Help?” for USAID Advancing Nutrition, the Agency’s flagship multi-sectorial nutrition project. Martin and other researchers detail how nutrition … Read more
UNC Awarded $90 Million Global Health PEARL Project to Support Localized Generation and Use of Evidence and Data
CHAPEL HILL, NC—The Carolina Population Center (CPC) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a new $90 million cooperative agreement by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement the Global Health Program Evaluation, … Read more
New report on reducing intergenerational poverty from NASEM
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recently convened a committee of experts to conduct a comprehensive study of intergenerational poverty in the United States. Faculty Fellow Fenaba Addo served as a member of the Committee, which released … Read more
2022 American Community Survey Release
The US Census Bureau released the 2022 1-Year American Community Survey (ACS) data on September 14. The ACS is a rolling monthly survey that reports socioeconomic characteristics – income, poverty, educational attainment, commuting, etc. – of the population annually. ACS … Read more
New research examines intergenerational support between parents and children throughout adulthood
New research by Anna Manzoni and Jane Lee published in Sociological Perspectives challenges the notion of complete independence as a necessary marker of adulthood. The two researchers examine how parents and children exchange both financial and housing resources over their … Read more
Researchers receive $25.3 million to study potential risks for Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias
A team led by Kathleen Mullan Harris and Krista M. Perreira (MPIs) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Joseph Hotz and Naomi Duke (MPIs) at Duke University have received a five-year, $25.3 million National Institute on … Read more
Conghe Song named Chair of the Department of Geography and Environment
Faculty Fellow Conghe Song has been named the new Chair of the Department of Geography and Environment. Song researches how socio-economic factors drive land-cover/land-use changes, and how the ensuing changes in ecosystem services feedback to influence people’s livelihoods.