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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. 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 … Read more
New research links early-life mortality and family structure, education, income
July 10, 2019Jul 10, 2019 Published by University Communications Article published by Maternal and Child Health Journal A new study reveals substantially higher risks of death between ages 1-24 for children living in families with lower levels of parental education, lower levels … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
MEASURE Evaluation: USAID Awards UNC $36 Million to Support Malaria Control and Elimination
June 18, 2019The “Strengthening Surveillance, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Malaria Control and Elimination (Malaria SM&E)” program just awarded for $36 million by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This piece was originally published on measureevaluation.org. CHAPEL HILL, NC—A malaria-focused program … Read more
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 … Read more
How does exposure to extreme weather affect both people and places over time?
June 18, 2019An interdisciplinary team including several CPC Fellows has received a UNC Creativity Hub Pilot Award to investigate the long-term impact of storms Climate change is generating more frequent and more powerful extreme weather events along the Eastern seaboard and Gulf … Read more
Obituary: Betty Cogswell
May 18, 2019Obituary for Betty Cogswell: 1930-2019 Burlington, NC Dr. Cogswell was a Faculty Affiliate of the Carolina Population Center beginning in 1971. In 1977, when the Center began the Fellows Program, Dr. Cogswell was elected as a Faculty Fellow and would … Read more
Demography Daze: May 13
May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 The annual Demography Daze event is a collaboration between UNC’s Carolina Population Center and Duke University’s Population Research Institute. Demography Daze13 May 2019Carolina Population Center2002 Carolina Square 1-2:15: Bridget Goosby “It Takes a Village: What Interdisciplinarity and … Read more
CPC Fellow Harris elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 30, 2019Apr 30, 2019 Kathleen Mullan Harris has received the prestigious honor of being elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Harris is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and is UNC’s James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology. The … Read more