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CPC at 60: Elizabeth Frankenberg’s Commitment to Population Health and the Next Generation of Researchers

By Grayson Mendenhall gkm4unc@email.unc.edu As the Carolina Population Center celebrates 60 years, former director Elizabeth Frankenberg reflects on the power of interdisciplinary research, the importance of supporting emerging scholars and the Center’s evolving role in understanding population health. When a … Read more

Congratulations to CPC Predoctoral Trainee Hantao Jiang, who was chosen to present at the Graduate Research Symposium.

Congratulations to CPC Predoctoral Trainee Hantao Jiang, who was selected as one of only six graduate students across UNC Chapel Hill to give an oral presentation at the 2nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium, part of the university’s Research Week. Hantao … Read more

CPC at 60: Carolina Population Center’s Greatest Strength Remains Its People, Says CPC Fellow Robert Hummer.

By Grayson Mendenhall gkm4unc@email.unc.edu As the Carolina Population Center celebrates its 60th anniversary, one of its senior researchers says the center’s enduring success comes from a simple but increasingly rare feature in academia: bringing people together. For Robert Hummer, a … Read more

UNC Research Week is happening October 19-23! View the schedule of CPC presentations.

From Adolescence to Midlife: How Add Health Became a National Research Resource at UNC-Chapel Hill.

By Grayson Mendenhall gkm4unc@email.unc.edu For more than three decades, a groundbreaking research study born at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has followed the lives of thousands of Americans, creating one of the world’s richest sources of information … Read more

CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Betsy Pleasants named STAT Wunderkind for 2026

Congratulations to Carolina Population Center Postdoctoral Trainee Betsy Pleasants on being named a STAT Wunderkind, an annual recognition of emerging leaders in science and medicine. Pleasants, also a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with the Center for Women’s Health Research at … Read more

CPC at 60: Barry Popkin reflects on a career built in partnership with the Carolina Population Center

By Grayson Mendenhall gkm4unc@email.unc.edu As the Carolina Population Center (CPC) celebrates its 60th anniversary, few researchers better illustrate the center’s impact than Dr. Barry Popkin, whose nearly five decades of scholarship helped shape global understanding of nutrition, maternal and child … Read more

Study found delivering medical supplies by drone did not measurably reduce shortages of most essential medicines

CPC Fellows Lindsey Smith Taillie and Colin West receive 2026-27 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awards

Congratulations to Carolina Population Center Fellows Lindsey Smith Taillie and Colin West for receiving U.S. Fulbright Scholar awards for 2026-2027! The awards are given to scholars, faculty, researchers and administrators to conduct research abroad and broaden international educational partnerships. Taillie, a … Read more

CPC Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie says industry lobbying led the government to delay publishing a definition of ultra-processed foods