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CPC Fellow Halpern receives The Larsh Award, a prestigious honor for mentorship
May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Carolyn Tucker Halpern will be awarded the John E. Larsh, Jr. Award for Mentorship. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health announced the award, which will be presented during the School’s commencement … Read more
Innovative research by CPC Fellow Thirumurthy about HIV self-testing published in The Lancet HIV
April 14, 2016Apr 14, 2016 Harsha Thirumurthy conducted research in Kenya about HIV self-testing and explored a promising strategy for reducing the risk of HIV infection in certain populations. Thirumurthy is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor of … Read more
CPC’s Transfer Project: Major international workshop on social protection in Africa, 6-8 April
April 5, 2016Apr 5, 2016 Addis Ababa meeting aims to expand impact of government-led cash transfer programmes A silent revolution has been taking place in Africa, with governments expanding investment in social protection and national cash transfer programmes. Direct, predictable cash payments … Read more
CPC at PAA 2016
March 23, 2016Mar 23, 2016 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held March 28 – April 2, 2016 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC faculty fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral … Read more
Endeavors features research by CPC Fellows Singh and Barrington about pregnancy and childbirth in Ghana in “Getting There”
March 21, 2016Mar 21, 2016 Getting There: What does it take to care for mothers and their babies in remote Ghana? UNC researchers are evaluating systems in place to help some of the world’s most vulnerable women and children. CPC Fellows Kavita … Read more
2016 Add Health Users Conference (June 20-21), Registration Now Open!
March 21, 2016Mar 21, 2016 Join us this summer for the Add Health Users Conference! Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the twelfth Add Health Users Conference to be held at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, June 20-21, 2016. The principal goal of … Read more
Schistosomiasis and HIV Acquisition
March 17, 2016Mar 17, 2016 CHAPEL HILL, NC-A comprehensive review of secondary data sources has confirmed a long-suspected link between female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) and HIV infection for women in southern Africa. Researchers confirmed the link in Mozambique, finding that exposure to … Read more
Electronic Health Records: Primer on Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality of EHRs
February 24, 2016Feb 24, 2016 The transition from paper-based to electronic health record (EHR) systems in low- and middle-income countries poses some unique challenges for privacy and confidentiality, security, and data integrity and availability. All of these challenges become more pressing with … Read more
Ebola: What data say
January 28, 2016Jan 28, 2016 Guinea has maintained its Ebola-free status for about one month. Although that bodes well for the country’s people, their protection from another outbreak rests in part on the availability of data for making informed decisions on health … Read more
CPC Data Portal Adds New Studies
January 6, 2016Jan 6, 2016 March 14, 2017 The Carolina Population Center Data Portal promotes and highlights CPC’s original data collection efforts and enhances data dissemination. The CPC Data Portal has added two studies to the data now available for the research … Read more