Although most public health initiatives to improve maternal and child nutrition are aimed specifically at moms and their children, experts are gaining a clearer picture of the role that fathers, grandparents and other family members play in feeding practices and … Read more

Faculty Fellow Audrey Pettifor was interviewed in a piece about college students and COVID.

Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson talks about the delta variant in The Atlantic.

Faculty Fellow Tonia Poteat spoke about her research on HIV prevalence rates among transgender women in a Medical News and Perspectives piece published in the July 7, 2021 edition of JAMA.

The surveillance program, led by UNC SOM’s Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Amir Barzin, DO, and Gillings’ Audrey Pettifor, PhD, will collect, sequence, and share data on SARS-CoV-2 samples from across the state, providing real-time information on variants circulating in North Carolina. … Read more

Faculty Fellow Chantel Martin was quoted in USA Today on the US life expectancy decrease.

Faculty Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris, the James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina and Chair of the Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, testified before … Read more

Faculty Fellow Carmen Gutierrez was featured on the podcast Pod Save the People, where she discussed health insurance complications for previously incarcerated persons.

Faculty Fellow Cassandra Davis was interviewed in the Greensboro News&Record about homeschooling during the pandemic.

The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers. Polygenic Index Inventories Polygenic scores computed by the SSGAC consortium for anthropometric traits, cognition/education, fertility/sexual development, health/health behaviors, and personality/well being. N=5,689 Current Add Health investigators can log in … Read more