The CLHNS Team

At the Carolina Population Center

• Dr. Barry M. Popkin,
  Professor, Department of Nutrition, and Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, coordinated the first phase of the CLHNS.
• Dr. Linda S. Adair, Professor, Department of Nutrition, and Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, has since taken over all coordination and lead researcher activities on the project.
• Other CPC Fellows collaborating on the CLHNS include:
  • Dr. Kenneth Bollen, Department of Sociology
  • Dr. David K. Guilkey, Department of Economics
• Other UNC Faculty Collaborators:
  • Dr. Karen Mohlke, Department of Genetics

At the Office of Population Studies Foundation, University of San Carlos, Cebu, Philippines

• Socorro Gultiano, Ph.D. (Demography), Director
• Judith Borja, Ph.D. (Nutrition)
• Alan Feranil, Ph.D. (Demography)
• Josephine Avila (M.A. Sociology)
• Tita Lorna Perez (M.A. Population and Reproductive Health Research)
• Delia Carba (M.A. Population Studies)
• Nanette R. Lee (PhD (Nutrition), M.A. (Health Social Science)
• Isabelita N. Bas (M.A. Health Social Science)
• Paulita Duazo (B.S. Statistics)
• Sonny Agustin (M.A. Demography)
• Office of Population Studies Foundation website

Collaborators at other US Universities

• Dr. Christopher Kuzawa, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology; Director, Laboratory for Human Biology Research, Northwestern University
• Dr. Thomas McDade, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology; Director, Laboratory for Human Biology Research, Northwestern University
• Dr. Michelle Hindin, Associate Professor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

CPC Programmers and Staff

• Frances Dancy
• Phil Bardsley

Other Filipino Consultants and Co-investigators

• Dr. Florentino Solon (Director, Nutrition Center of the Philippines)
• Dr. T. Fernandez (Cebu Department of Health)
• Dr. Corazon Barba (Professor, University of the Philippines, Los Banos)

Current Funding

• R01 HL085144 NIH/NHLBI, “Obesity Development and CVD Risk Factor Clustering in Filipino Women & Offspring”
• R01 HD054501 NIH/NICHD “Modeling the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Risk Factors”
• R01 DK078150 NIH/NIDDK “Genetic Epidemiology of Body Mass Index, Adiposity, and Weight Gain
• R03 TW008133 NIH/Fogarty “Relating multiple dimensions of stress to CVD risk in Filipino adults collaboration”