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Add Health Releases Codebook Explorer (ACE)
June 16, 2015Access the new Add Health Codebook Explorer (ACE) to search for questions administered in the In-School and In-Home Interviews Interested in browsing the Add Health In-School and In-Home interviews for questions related to a specific topic, or quickly discovering whether questions were administered across multiple waves of interviews? The Add Health Codebook Explorer (ACE) allows…
Big Data and Important Questions: Population Health Studies in the United States, China, and the Philippines
April 27, 2015Carolina Population Center’s researchers have decades of experience collecting, analyzing, sharing, and archiving big data sets of population research studies. CPC Fellow Barry M. Popkin is one of several CPC Fellows who are at the forefront of research efforts to assess the critical role of nutritional, social, and environmental factors in population health. One of…
Largest National Study on Adolescent Health Receives $28 Million from NIH
September 25, 2014(Chapel Hill, N.C., Sept. 25, 2014) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population Center has received a five–year, $28 million grant for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Now entering its 20th year of National Institutes of Health funding, Add Health is the largest, most comprehensive longitudinal study of…
The Next Phase of MEASURE Evaluation
July 1, 2014The United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Global Health awarded MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Population Center and its partners, Futures Group, ICF International, John Snow Incorporated, Management Sciences for Health, and Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The objective of…
USAID Awards UNC’s MEASURE Evaluation Project with Two Science and Technology Pioneers Prizes
January 17, 2014Two of fourteen Science and Technology Pioneers Prizes were awarded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Science and Technology to the MEASURE Evaluation project, implemented by the Carolina Population Center. The prize is awarded to projects and activities funded by USAID that apply science and technology to development challenges of…
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…