Aug 10, 2016 The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health project staff released a new Add Health Research Brief on Characteristics of Young Adult Relationships. Aug 2016, No.3 Characteristics of Young Adult Relationships https://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/news/add-health-research-briefs You may also sign … Read more
Jul 25, 2016 As of July 1st, CPC Fellow Penny Gordon-Larsen is chair of NIH’s study section on Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted this announcement: Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, professor of nutrition at … Read more
Jul 18, 2016 Using data from Add Health, researchers Donaldson, Handren and Crano examined the relationship between teens and their parents and parental effect on teenage drinking. Teens with parents who were more supportive and monitored their children were less … Read more
Jul 11, 2016 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Andrew Olshan has been elected president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted this announcement: Andrew Olshan, PhD, Barbara Sorenson Hulka Distinguished Professor in Cancer … Read more
Jul 11, 2016 CHAPEL HILL, NC-An estimated 225 million women in developing countries want to delay or stop childbearing but are not using any contraceptive method, in many cases because they lack access to products and services. Today, on World … Read more
Jun 28, 2016 A UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health epidemiologist whose research focuses on social and structural drivers of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa was an invited speaker at the United Nations’ 2016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, … Read more
Jun 7, 2016 On behalf of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, Demoscope and the HSE have prepared longitudinal files containing all years of data from 1994-2014, both for the individual data (adults and children) and for the household data. Each … Read more
May 24, 2016 By Kimberly Best, MEASURE Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill You’d think that on the roof of a six-story hotel located in a “quiet” district of town, street sounds would be somewhat muffled. Not so … Read more
May 20, 2016 The Carolina-Duke rivalry is arguably one of the greatest, but when it comes to academics, the two are often close collaborators and good friends. Only ten miles apart, faculty often share expertise and research with one another … Read more
May 11, 2016 Carolina Population Center Fellow Robert Hummer was interviewed by Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s On Point show. The topic is: Why Life Expectancy Varies Greatly in the U.S. Other panelists were former CPC predoctoral trainee Tyson Brown, … Read more
