Aug 24, 2015 A recent study by Kathleen Mullan Harris and her co-authors found that there is a causal connection between a person’s polygenic score and the years of education they achieve. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of … Read more

Aug 17, 2015 CPC Fellow Linda Adair is now leading the Social Sciences and Population Studies ‘A’ Study Section for NIH. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted a news story about her new role, this is an excerpt: … Read more

Aug 11, 2015 Post-Ebola, ask the right questions By Antigone Barton on August 10, 2015. The following is a guest post by Kathy Doherty of MEASURE Evaluation The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa exposed the weaknesses of national health … Read more

Aug 3, 2015 UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted a news story about CPC Fellow Audrey Pettifor and her presentation at the recent 8th International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention. This is an … Read more

Jul 23, 2015 Carolina Population Center Fellow Margaret (Peggy) Bentley was recently elected one of two new faculty directors of the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted this announcement about Bentley’s new role: Margaret … Read more

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