Jessica Houston Su joined the Carolina Population Center as a Faculty Fellow in 2019. Department: Sociology, adjunct in Public Policy Hometown: Hinsdale, NH – a small town with a population of 4,000 people Tell us what projects you’re currently working … Read more
Faculty Fellow Robert Hummer has co-authored a new book on population health. Over the past 30 years, the life expectancy of people born in the United States has not kept pace compared to other large and wealthy countries. At the … Read more
Jul 10, 2019 Published by University Communications Article published by Maternal and Child Health Journal A new study reveals substantially higher risks of death between ages 1-24 for children living in families with lower levels of parental education, lower levels … Read more
Dr. Hargrove, an Assistant Professor of Sociology, looks at intersecting social inequalities and BMI trajectories from adolescence to early adulthood. CPC Faculty Fellow Taylor Hargrove has received a NIH Matilda White Early Stage Investigator Award and was honored at the … Read more
This text was originally published on the NC TraCS website. Allison E. Aiello, PhD, Director of the Integrating Special Populations Program at the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute and Professor of Epidemiology at the Gillings School … Read more
The “Strengthening Surveillance, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Malaria Control and Elimination (Malaria SM&E)” program just awarded for $36 million by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This piece was originally published on measureevaluation.org. CHAPEL HILL, NC—A malaria-focused program … Read more
The award recognizes “work of notable quality, potential, and/or likely impact on the field completed by a student in the population health sciences.” Iliya Gutin, a doctoral candidate in sociology and a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center, received … Read more
An interdisciplinary team including several CPC Fellows has received a UNC Creativity Hub Pilot Award to investigate the long-term impact of storms Climate change is generating more frequent and more powerful extreme weather events along the Eastern seaboard and Gulf … Read more
Obituary for Betty Cogswell: 1930-2019 Burlington, NC Dr. Cogswell was a Faculty Affiliate of the Carolina Population Center beginning in 1971. In 1977, when the Center began the Fellows Program, Dr. Cogswell was elected as a Faculty Fellow and would … Read more
May 7, 2019 The annual Demography Daze event is a collaboration between UNC’s Carolina Population Center and Duke University’s Population Research Institute. Demography Daze13 May 2019Carolina Population Center2002 Carolina Square 1-2:15: Bridget Goosby “It Takes a Village: What Interdisciplinarity and … Read more
