Jul 23, 2015 Carolina Population Center Fellow Barry M. Popkin received the 1st award for significant foreign contributions in nutrition from the Chinese government. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted this announcement about Popkin’s award: Barry Popkin, PhD, … Read more

Jul 21, 2015 The Carolina Population Center’s research projects generate data that are used by thousands of researchers and policy makers across the U.S. and throughout the world.  The published products of this research help inform others about social, behavior, … Read more

Jul 1, 2015 MEASURE Evaluation researchers recently attended the Measurement and Accountability for Results in Health Summit convened by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO). An increasing reliance on … Read more

Every summer, the Carolina Population Center welcomes undergraduate interns who learn about and conduct population research. To develop their research question and methodology, the interns work with CPC Fellows who are also UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members. A couple of the … Read more

Access the new Add Health Codebook Explorer (ACE) to search for questions administered in the In-School and In-Home Interviews Interested in browsing the Add Health In-School and In-Home interviews for questions related to a specific topic, or quickly discovering whether … Read more

Jun 16, 2015 Every summer, the Carolina Population Center welcomes undergraduate interns who learn about and conduct population research. To develop their research question and methodology, the interns work with CPC Fellows who are also UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members. A … Read more

May 27, 2015 Carolina Population Center’s researchers have decades of experience collecting, analyzing, sharing, and archiving big data sets of population research studies. CPC Fellow Barry M. Popkin is one of several CPC Fellows who are at the forefront of … Read more

May 20, 2015 Shoshana Goldberg was awarded a blue ribbon for her poster presentation at the 2015 Population Association of America Annual Meeting on May 2nd. Goldberg’s poster, “Does It Really ‘Get Better’? Suicide Attempts in Two Cohorts of Sexual … Read more

The core of the Carolina Population Center is the Faculty Fellows, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members who conduct population research, teach population-relevant classes, and mentor students who are preparing to research population issues. In 2014, six new Faculty Fellows were elected: … Read more

May 5, 2015 N. Krishnan Namboodiri died in April 2015. Namboodiri was a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow from 1977 to 1985 and was among the UNC faculty members who were affiliated with CPC when it was formed in 1966. … Read more