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CPC Faculty Fellow Paul Voss honored with the Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America
April 19, 2013Paul R. Voss received the prestigious Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America on April 12th at its Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Robert J. Lapham Award “recognizes members of PAA who contributed to the population profession through the application of demographic knowledge to policy issues.” The award committee was…
Meet the recently elected Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows: S. Philip Morgan, Lauren Persha, Liana Richardson, Kavita Singh, and Colin West
January 2, 2013The 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 63 Fellows from 15 different UNC departments. S. Philip Morgan, Professor of Sociology Phil Morgan became the…
CPC Fellow Amy Herring receives APHA’s Mortimer Spiegelman Award
November 18, 2012Professor Amy H. Herring accepted the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association’s Statistics Section on Tuesday, Oct. 30th at the organization’s Annual Meeting. The award honors her outstanding achievements as a public health biostatistician under age 40. Herring is an accomplished teacher, researcher, and published author. She is a professor and associate…
UNC Epidemiology Professor Jim Thomas to be Director of UNC’s largest project
November 8, 2012James C. “Jim” Thomas, Ph.D., has been appointed the new Director of MEASURE Evaluation. In 2008, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded up to $181 million for the 6-year Project, which remains the largest award ever received by UNC-Chapel Hill. The Project, which works in more than 40 countries, enables improved decision…
New Faculty Fellow profile: Clark Gray, geographer
October 18, 2011The Carolina Population Center and UNC-Chapel Hill were entwined with Clark Gray’s history long before he was named a CPC Faculty Fellow earlier this year. Gray received both his B.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Geography from UNC-CH and was a CPC Predoctoral Trainee and a Postdoctoral Scholar. During this time, he did research with…
Family and community-based support systems critical to better mental health for Latino immigrants
August 18, 2011Of the United States’ population growth over the last decade, 56 percent can be attributed to its Latino population. Though many of these individuals are born in the United States, migration still accounts for a large portion of the growing Latino population. The research of CPC Faculty Fellow Krista Perreira focuses on the effects migration…
Interdisciplinary study in South Africa examines whether paying girls to attend school reduces their risk of acquiring HIV
January 18, 2011Of all the countries in the world, South Africa has the most people living with HIV. Even more than China or India with much larger population sizes. Among the nearly 50 million people living in South Africa, the current HIV prevalence is about 12%. The adolescent and young adult years are a particularly risky time…
Institutional and policy changes affect economic reality of Russian people
October 18, 2010In the last 20 years, the people of Russia have experienced major societal changes caused by extensive political transformation and ensuing economic reforms. These changes have impacted every sector of society including labor services and employment, health services and their utilization, and the public education system. CPC Faculty Fellow Klara Sabirianova Peter is an economist…
Malawi study may lead to new approach to improve health and survival of HIV-positive mothers and their infants
July 18, 2010For more than 20 years, Peggy Bentley, Professor of Nutrition and Associate Dean of Global Health in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, has blended her background in medical anthropology, nutrition, and public health to examine influences of social and behavioral factors on maternal and child health and nutrition. Her early work at UNICEF…
Economic and cultural factors lead to China’s low fertility rate, more so than government’s one-child policy
May 18, 2010China is famous for its one-child policy. Thirty years ago, most Chinese women gave birth to two to three children, already one of the lowest among developing countries. In its first decade of chaotic implementation, China's fertility stayed at a level of more than two children per woman, followed by an accelerated drop in fertility…