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

Nov 20, 2015 Penny Gordon-Larsen recently received funding to study if there is a link between Western diets and cardiometabolic risk among Chinese people living in a rural area that is undergoing urbanization. She will use the China Health and … Read more

Nov 17, 2015 Data from the Add Health study is now available for researchers to access via Dataverse. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in … Read more

Nov 3, 2015 A new report from CPC’s Carolina Demography examines population trends to predict likely shifts in the nation’s political geography. Every decade, following the decennial Census, the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are allocated to … Read more

Nov 3, 2015 CPC’s Carolina Demography launched a series on reapportionment and redistricting on Monday, November 2nd. “Reapportionment and redistricting shape the political landscape for the 10 years between census and have profound impacts on citizens,” said Rebecca Tippett, Director … Read more

Oct 7, 2015 The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics & Disparities in 21st Century America website was launched on October 6, 2015.  Bob Hummer is CPC’s PI on this collaborative project, working with colleagues at the University of Southern … Read more

Oct 6, 2015 The Population Association of America announced the results of the recent election of its officers and Board of Directors. Robert Hummer is Vice President-elect and Amy Tsui is President-elect. Robert Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Professor … Read more

Oct 5, 2015 UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted an announcement about a recently published article co-authored by Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Barry M. Popkin. This is an excerpt of the announcement: More than 80 percent of … Read more