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UNC to Lead $15 Million Statewide COVID-19 Surveillance Program Funded by NC Policy Collaboratory
August 2, 2021The surveillance program, led by UNC SOM’s Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Amir Barzin, DO, and Gillings’ Audrey Pettifor, PhD, will collect, sequence, and share data on SARS-CoV-2 samples from across the state, providing real-time information on variants circulating in North Carolina. CHAPEL HILL, NC – A team of researchers at UNC is leading a surveillance effort…
Chantel Martin quoted in USA Today
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Chantel Martin was quoted in USA Today on the US life expectancy decrease.
Mullan Harris testifies at Senate Committee hearing
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Kathleen Mullan Harris, the James E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina and Chair of the Committee on Rising Midlife Mortality Rates and Socioeconomic Disparities, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on addressing disparities in life…
Carmen Gutierrez featured on Pod Save the People
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Carmen Gutierrez was featured on the podcast Pod Save the People, where she discussed health insurance complications for previously incarcerated persons.
Cassandra Davis in Greensboro News&Record
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Cassandra Davis was interviewed in the Greensboro News&Record about homeschooling during the pandemic.
Data Release: Polygenic Index Inventories
August 2, 2021The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers. Polygenic Index Inventories Polygenic scores computed by the SSGAC consortium for anthropometric traits, cognition/education, fertility/sexual development, health/health behaviors, and personality/well being. N=5,689 Current Add Health investigators can log in to the CPC Data Portal and use the “Request More Data” button to order this…
Paul Delamater talks coronavirus geography on CBS17
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Paul Delamater was interviewed on CBS17 discussing coronavirus transmission and geography.
Justin Lessler quoted in Washington Post
August 2, 2021Faculty Fellow Justin Lessler was quoted in a Washington Post piece on the summer coronavirus surge.
Meet the Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellows elected in 2021
August 2, 2021The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected seven UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program in 2021. There are now 78 faculty fellows who sit across 16 academic departments. Fenaba Addo, Public Policy Fenaba R. Addo is an associate professor of public policy. Her recent work examines debt and wealth inequality with a…
Elizabeth Frankenberg in The Conversation
July 6, 2021Elizabeth Frankenberg co-wrote a piece in The Conversation looking at what has been learned about recovering from the Boxing Day tsunami.