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MEASURE Evaluation Awarded $35 Million to Improve Data & Impact in Fight against Tuberculosis through the TB DIAH Project
September 29, 2018Sep 29, 2018 CHAPEL HILL, NC– A tuberculosis (TB)-focused program just awarded will provide more than $35 million in new funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for MEASURE Evaluation to strengthen TB data and knowledge sharing … Read more
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 … Read more
CPC Fellow Hargrove awarded NIH grant: Health Disparities: Inflammatory Response, Immune Function, and Environment (In)Congruenc
September 25, 2018Sep 25, 2018 The 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 … Read more
Nancy Dole, Carolina Population Center’s Deputy Director for Research Services, retires after 39 years at CPC
September 20, 2018Originally posted September 20, 2018. After 39 years at the Carolina Population Center, Nancy Dole retires on October 1. Have any of CPC’s current staff worked at CPC for longer than Nancy? No! It is difficult to imagine CPC without Nancy. She has been critical … Read more
Nancy Dole, Carolina Population Center’s Deputy Director for Research Services, retires after 39 years at CPC
September 20, 2018Sep 20, 2018 After 39 years at the Carolina Population Center, Nancy Dole retires on October 1. Have any of CPC’s current staff worked at CPC for longer than Nancy? No! It is difficult to imagine CPC without Nancy. She has been critical in the … Read more
WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation with Rebecca Tippett
August 31, 2018Aug 31, 2018 By Jeff Tiberii, for WUNC Since 1990, North Carolina’s population has grown by more than 3.5 million residents. Rebecca Tippett, founding director of Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, discusses where the bulk … Read more
Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars Series
August 31, 2018Aug 31, 2018 The Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars series schedule is now available. All seminars are held from 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm in Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin St. Location information is available here. … Read more
Research Seminar Friday, Sept 14: Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage
August 28, 2018Aug 28, 2018 On Friday, September 14, Colter Mitchell, PhD will present Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars series.Mitchell is Research Assistant Professor of the Survey Research Center … Read more
CPC Fellows Harris and Aiello awarded grant by NIH to study psychosocial exposures and epigenetic impacts on health
August 24, 2018Aug 24, 2018 The National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities has awarded a grant entitled “Add Health Epigenome Resource: Life Course Stressors and Epigenomic Modifications in Adulthood” to CPC Fellows Kathleen Mullan Harris and Allison Aiello. This funding … Read more
Why China needs more babies to save its aging population
August 22, 2018Aug 22, 2018 By Josh K. Elliott for Global News The country’s old one-child policy has created a future labour shortage, with not enough young workers lined up to replace the existing workforce as it retires. And with a fast-growing … Read more