From the Odum Institute podcast: In our latest episode, we chatted with Khristopher Nicholas, a fourth-year Nutrition PhD candidate at UNC Gillings School of Public Health and a trainee at the Carolina Population Center, who is interested in the intersections of health, … Read more

Faculty Fellow Yong Cai, who focuses on China’s birth policies, was interviewed for a recent Washington Post article about a drop in China’s birth rate.

Faculty Fellow Tonia Poteat recently co-authored a research paper entitled “HIV and women in the USA: what we know and where to go from here” which was published in The Lancet. From a story on these research efforts published on … Read more

Carolina Demography is an applied demography group located within the Carolina Population Center. The group just released their 2020 Impact Report, which details how they worked with partners across North Carolina to better understand: How COVID-19 affected each area of … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill research, led by CPC Faculty Fellow Allison Aiello, PhD, and Emily Ciccone, MD, shows that individuals previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop a significant antibody response to the first dose of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. New research from UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more

First-year college students are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety significantly more often than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   The study is based on the experiences … Read more

Faculty Fellow Allison Aiello was recently interviewed on NPR about the COVID-19 vaccine.

This piece was originally published by the National Academics of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. WASHINGTON — Young and middle-aged adults (25-64 years old) in the U.S. have been dying at higher rates since 2010, according to a new report from … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Population Center has received two grants, providing an expected $38.2 million over 5 years, that together will fund Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add … Read more

Though multiple national health organizations recommend against giving toddler milk – a nutrient-fortified drink for children ages 12 months to 3 years that often contains added sugars – to young children, a new study suggests Latino families may be at … Read more