Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in Mexico and Chile … Read more

Apr 9, 2018 Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in … Read more

Mar 27, 2018 This short video tells how a software system helps low-resource countries compile and analyze health data to improve services. Video by MEASURE Evaluation. DHIS 2 – A Workhorse for Health Information https://vimeo.com/257187268

Mar 26, 2018 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 26-28 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff … Read more

Feb 16, 2018 Cross posted from http://www.higheredworksfoundation.org/2018/02/college-pipeline/ WINSTON-SALEM – Under current trends, out of 100 North Carolina 9th-graders, 72 will graduate from high school in the next four years and say they intend to go to college. But only 53 … Read more

Jan 24, 2018 CHAPEL HILL, NC-One of the largest research awards made to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) just got bigger, making MEASURE Evaluation not only UNC’s largest project in global health, but the largest single … Read more

Jan 16, 2018 Every child born should have the optimum chance of survival. This story is cross-posted from here.  Although that goal might seem obvious, the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (SDGs) have placed new emphasis on newborn survival as … Read more

Dec 19, 2017   The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) recently released the data file for Wave V Sample 1. The file contains data from 3,872 of the Wave V Sample 1 respondents. The respondents … Read more

Dec 18, 2017 (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Dec. 18, 2017) – A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that black and Hispanic young adults from disadvantaged childhoods do not enjoy the same health-promoting benefits … Read more

Dec 4, 2017 This remembrance of Thomas Hall was published by Research!America and was distributed by APHA’s International Health Section. Hall was Acting Director of the Carolina Population Center from 1974-1975 and was CPC Director from 1975-1977. He was a … Read more