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Fellow Spotlight: Sean Sylvia
September 19, 2019Sean Sylvia joined the Carolina Population Center as a Faculty Fellow in 2019. Sean Sylvia Department: Health Policy and Management Hometown: Prattville, AL Tell us what projects you’re currently working on. I’m currently working on a few different projects, mostly in China. One set of projects involves using unannounced standardized patients (SP) -- mystery shoppers…
Fellow Spotlight: Jessica Houston Su
September 19, 2019Jessica Houston Su joined the Carolina Population Center as a Faculty Fellow in 2019. Jessica Houston Su Department: Sociology, adjunct in Public Policy Hometown: Hinsdale, NH - a small town with a population of 4,000 people Tell us what projects you're currently working on. I’m working on a project that examines immigrant authorization status and…
Population Health in America: A Q&A with Robert Hummer
September 19, 2019Faculty Fellow Robert Hummer has co-authored a new book on population health. Robert Hummer Over the past 30 years, the life expectancy of people born in the United States has not kept pace compared to other large and wealthy countries. At the same time, socioeconomic disparities in health have increased, and disturbing differences in key…
CPC Fellow Hargrove receives Matilda White ESI Award
June 25, 2019Dr. Hargrove, an Assistant Professor of Sociology, looks at intersecting social inequalities and BMI trajectories from adolescence to early adulthood. CPC Faculty Fellow Taylor Hargrove has received a NIH Matilda White Early Stage Investigator Award and was honored at the NIH on June 6, 2019. Dr. Hargrove won the paper competition for her submission, “Intersecting…
CPC Fellow Aiello receives Hogue Mid Career Award
June 25, 2019This text was originally published on the NC TraCS website. Allison E. Aiello, PhD, Director of the Integrating Special Populations Program at the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute and Professor of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, will receive the Carol J. Rowland Hogue Award for Outstanding Mid-Career…
Meet the Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows elected in 2018
November 7, 2018The Carolina Population Center's Faculty Fellows elected five UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program. The Fellows are CPC's permanent and vital core, and the center devotes its resources to facilitating their research. Currently, there are 68 Fellows from 15 different UNC departments. Carmen Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy. In…
CPC Fellow Hargrove awarded NIH grant: Health Disparities: Inflammatory Response, Immune Function, and Environment (In)Congruence
September 25, 2018The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant entitled “Health Disparities: Inflammatory Response, Immune Function, and Environment (In)Congruence” to Carolina Population Center (CPC) Faculty Fellow Taylor Hargrove and former CPC Postdoctoral Scholar Lauren Gaydosh. This funding will allow researchers to examine the biological and social mechanisms underlying the relationship between socioeconomic mobility and poorer…
Winners Selected for UNC Creativity Hubs Inaugural Awards
May 15, 2018Carolina Research Teams Span Disciplines to Fight Obesity, Advance Water Purification Published by UNC Research. UNC’s new Creativity Hubs initiative, a component of the Carolina Blueprint for Next strategic framework, has announced awards to campus research teams pursuing solutions to two of the world’s most pressing issues: the obesity epidemic and the global clean water…
CPC Fellows Popkin, Ng & Taillie funded to evaluate the implications of policies on food purchasing patterns, diets, & health
April 9, 2018Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in Mexico and Chile in evaluating major food and nutrition policies, and the team is working with a number…
Six new Faculty Fellows elected to the Carolina Population Center: Aiello, Albrecht, Gilleskie, Hummer, Ifatunji, Shanahan
May 19, 2015The core of the Carolina Population Center is the Faculty Fellows, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members who conduct population research, teach population-relevant classes, and mentor students who are preparing to research population issues. In 2014, six new Faculty Fellows were elected: Allison Aiello, Sandra Albrecht, Donna Gilleskie, Mosi Ifatunji, Robert Hummer, and Michael Shanahan. CPC now…