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Faculty fellows receive new Gillings School awards focusing on links between place and health

Welcome CPC Summer interns!

Name Preceptor Project  Stephanie Forlemu Keely Muscatell Effects of Anti-Black Racism on the Brain and Immune System Annie Flanagan Bob Hummer Add Health Madison Jacobs Paul Delamater Agent-Based Modeling of the COVID-19 Pandemic in North Carolina” Sam Kornylak Conghe Song … Read more

Batsis to Lead 52-week Clinical Trial on Weight Loss in Older Adults

John Batsis, MD, associate professor of medicine, will lead a team of researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in conducting a clinical study to determine best interventions to help older … Read more

CPC at PAA 2023

The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be April 12-15, 2023 in New Orleans, LA. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff members. The final program … Read more

Remembering Chirayath (Suchi) Suchindran

Chirayath (Suchi) Madhavan Suchindran, Fellow Emeritus at the Carolina Population Center and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biostatistics, passed away on Saturday, March 25, 2023. Suchi was a mathematical demographer and served as the leading biostatistician in the statistical … Read more

Adverse birth outcomes worse for foreign-born Latina mothers during Trump administration

A number of studies have shown that the election of President Trump in 2016 generated harmful consequences for the health and well-being of Latinx people in the United States. Several students have linked Trump’s anti-immigrant and anti-Latinx policies with increased … Read more

Disaster response should be equitable

A new study examines the impacts of small wildfires that can add up over time

Summary of findings: Past studies have suggested that wealthier people are at higher risk from fires But, when you look at fire frequency, the opposite is true The impacts of small fires can add up over time – this is … Read more

As extreme weather events become more often and intensify, the number of people and places exposed to flooding events is likely to grow.

As extreme weather events become more often and intensify, the number of people and places exposed to flooding events is likely to grow. But until now, surprisingly little was known about how floodplain development patterns vary across communities. A new … Read more