Christy Avery is an assistant professor who specializes in cardiovascular epidemiology. Her specific research areas include genetic epidemiology, pharmacogenomics, and translation-oriented approaches to assess the burden of cardiovascular diseases in diverse populations.
Professor Lawrence Haddad is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Professor Jill Stewart is an environmental health microbiologist who studies links between human and ecosystem health.
His research interests are in the field of demography, with an emphasis on immigration and health. His current research evaluates the relative importance of culture and selective migration in explaining differential patterns of stratification between U.S.-born and foreign-born individuals in the United States.
Professor Handa is currently on-leave from UNC serving as Chief of Social & Economic Policy at UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti, Florence, Italy.
Dr. Audrey Pettifor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center.
Dr. Jennifer Van Hook is Professor of Sociology and Demography and Center Director of the Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University.
In his current research on immigration, Professor Mouw is analyzing the effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of native workers using a unique data set of restricted-access employer-employee data (the Longitudinal Employer Household Data “LEHD”) at the Triangle Census Research Data Center.
Professor Root’s research is situated at the intersection of geography and public health.
Jane Cooley Fruehwirth is an economist with research interests in the determinants of social, economic and racial inequality.
