Apr 5, 2016 Addis Ababa meeting aims to expand impact of government-led cash transfer programmes A silent revolution has been taking place in Africa, with governments expanding investment in social protection and national cash transfer programmes. Direct, predictable cash payments … Read more

Mar 23, 2016 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held March 28 – April 2, 2016 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C.  Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC faculty fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral … Read more

Mar 21, 2016 Getting There: What does it take to care for mothers and their babies in remote Ghana? UNC researchers are evaluating systems in place to help some of the world’s most vulnerable women and children. CPC Fellows Kavita … Read more

Mar 21, 2016 Join us this summer for the Add Health Users Conference! Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the twelfth Add Health Users Conference to be held at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, June 20-21, 2016. The principal goal of … Read more

Mar 17, 2016 CHAPEL HILL, NC-A comprehensive review of secondary data sources has confirmed a long-suspected link between female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) and HIV infection for women in southern Africa. Researchers confirmed the link in Mozambique, finding that exposure to … Read more

Feb 24, 2016 The transition from paper-based to electronic health record (EHR) systems in low- and middle-income countries poses some unique challenges for privacy and confidentiality, security, and data integrity and availability. All of these challenges become more pressing with … Read more

Jan 28, 2016 Guinea has maintained its Ebola-free status for about one month. Although that bodes well for the country’s people, their protection from another outbreak rests in part on the availability of data for making informed decisions on health … Read more

Jan 6, 2016 March 14, 2017 The Carolina Population Center Data Portal promotes and highlights CPC’s original data collection efforts and enhances data dissemination. The CPC Data Portal has added two studies to the data now available for the research … Read more

Jan 4, 2016 Social networks as important as exercise and diet across the span of our lives UNC-Chapel Hill researchers show how social relationships reduce health risk in each stage of life (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Jan. 4, 2016) – … Read more

Dec 11, 2015 The most recent issue of Carolina Public Health highlights the work being done with MEASURE Evaluation‘s mHealth program: “UNC Gillings School researchers are harnessing Web-based applications and mobile devices to collect real-time data and deliver interventions to … Read more