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Hannabeth Franchino-Olsen: Minor sex trafficking of girls with disabilities
June 23, 2020Hannabeth Franchino-Olsen is interested in topics of gender-based violence abroad and within the United States and is particularly focused on violence that impacts adolescents and children. Her current work focuses on domestic minor sex trafficking and adolescent vulnerabilities in populations across the U.S. as well as middle and high school students in North Carolina. Franchino-Olsen…
Trainee Spotlight: Max Reason
June 3, 2020Max Reason is a statistician at the United States Department of Agriculture. He is a former trainee at the Carolina Population Center and recently received his PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This interview was conducted by CPC intern Ryan Holmes shortly before Max graduated earlier this year. Q: …
Trainee Spotlight: Rachel Wilbur
May 3, 2020Rachel Wilbur is a fourth year doctoral candidate in Human Biology and Predoctoral Trainee in the Biosocial Program at CPC. She is interested in the impact of historical trauma and social determinants on the health of contemporary Native American and Alaska Native peoples. Her dissertation research seeks to elucidate and document the pathways through which…
Can social media help track the spread of disease?
April 7, 2020This piece was originally published on March 30 by the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Disease surveillance means monitoring the spread of disease through populations in order to establish patterns and minimize harm caused by outbreaks. In a recent article, UNC-Chapel Hill researchers explored how to effectively and ethically include social media and broader…
Alexis C. Dennis: Assessing Racial Differences in Socioeconomic Status across the Life Course
November 6, 2019[caption id="attachment_14374" align="alignleft" width="300"] Alexis C. Dennis[/caption] Alexis C. Dennis, a predoctoral Trainee at CPC and a doctoral candidate in sociology, received a poster award at the 2019 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) Conference for her poster, “Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Socioeconomic Correlates of Depression Among U.S. Born Young Adults.” Her research…
Trainee Spotlight: Khristopher Mark Nicholas
November 1, 2019Name: Khristopher Mark Nicholas Current title: CPC Trainee; 3rd year PhD student, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health Years affiliated with CPC: 2018 - present [caption id="attachment_15470" align="alignright" width="225"] Khristopher Mark Nicholas[/caption] What projects are you currently working on? My primary research centers on characterizing food environments in the Galapagos islands of…
Predoctoral trainee Iliya Gutin receives IAPHS Student Award
June 18, 2019The award recognizes “work of notable quality, potential, and/or likely impact on the field completed by a student in the population health sciences." Iliya Gutin, a doctoral candidate in sociology and a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center, received the 2019 Student Award from the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS). Gutin’s current…