Mar 14, 2012 Barry Popkin sees the struggle against food policies and marketing practices that promote excess weight as nothing less than a battle for human rights. The Spring 2012 issue of On Wisconsin features an interview with Barry Popkin, … Read more

This past summer the Population Division of the United Nations projected that the world would soon welcome its 7 billionth resident. The date arbitrarily selected to mark the event was October 31, 2011. By happy circumstance, on October 31 Benjamin … Read more

Jan 9, 2012 UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health announced two new distinguished professorships, including one to CPC Faculty Fellow Margaret (Peggy) Bentley. Read an excerpt from the announcement: Two distinguished professors at UNC Gillings School of Global Public … Read more

Dec 20, 2011 Nathalie Williams, a Carolina Population Center Postdoctoral Scholar, is a recipient of UNC’s 2011 Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence. Williams is one of ten scholars to receive the prestigious award. All recipients received a plaque and an … Read more

Dec 15, 2011 Data from Wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) provide new insights on the living arrangements of young adults (ages 24 to 32). Compared to young men and women of 30 years … Read more

Nov 16, 2011 CPC Fellow Peter Coclanis co-authored an opinion piece for the News & Observer on a new UNC Global Research Institute report on growth in the South. The article focuses on “A Way Forward: Building a Globally Competitive … Read more

Nov 16, 2011 A recent CNN article focuses on how young people can be affected by television shows depicting teen sex. The article is in response to an episode of the Fox show “Glee” in which two teen couples engage … Read more

Nov 8, 2011 A recent article in Canada’s Courier-Islander discusses the negative health effects of sugar-sweetened beverages. Research by CPC Fellow Barry Popkin, an advocate for a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, is the focus of the article. The story examines … Read more

Nov 3, 2011 An article in the Daily Tar Heel describes the work of CPC Fellow Sudhanshu “Ashu” Handa and highlights his current research on cash transfer programs in Ghana, Zambia and Kenya. Within the story, Handa’s students describe the … Read more

Oct 31, 2011 With the world’s population reaching 7 billion, China recently announced that its one-child policy prevented around 400 million births and helped slow world population growth. However, CPC Fellow Yong Cai and other demographers believe China has highly … Read more