Jul 21, 2014 Male circumcision has been proven to be an effective HIV prevention strategy and in 2007, UNAIDS and WHO recommended the scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa. Harsha Thirumurthy tested one scale-up approach with uncircumcised … Read more

Jul 11, 2014 UNC Global released an announcement about recent research conducted by Krista Perreira. Perreira is a Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and a UNC Professor of Public Policy. The Color of Health in Latin America: Individuals with Darker … Read more

The United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Global Health awarded MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Population Center and its partners, Futures Group, ICF International, John Snow Incorporated, Management Sciences … Read more

Jun 30, 2014 Two of fourteen Science and Technology Pioneers Prizes were awarded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Science and Technology to the MEASURE Evaluation project, implemented by the Carolina Population Center. The prize … Read more

May 5, 2014 Carolina Population Center Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Harris is the James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the … Read more

Apr 22, 2014 The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) announced the results of a major global study that could “upend conceptions of how forests, people interact.” CPC Fellow Pamela Jagger co-authored two of the five papers that are part … Read more

Apr 14, 2014 Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Margaret E. Bentley was recently elected to the board of directors of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted an announcement about this honor … Read more

Mar 7, 2014 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held May 1-3, 2014 at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC faculty fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate … Read more

Mar 3, 2014 Linda Adair, PhD, nutrition professor at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received the American Society of Nutrition’s Kellogg Prize for International Nutrition Research. The award, sponsored by the Kellogg Company, is given to a member … Read more

Jan 27, 2014 In October 2013, the Carolina Population Center launched a new service for communities throughout North Carolina. Called Carolina Demography, this program translates demographic data into specific, usable information about population change to inform decision making, planning, and … Read more