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Paul Delamater featured on CBS17 about vaccine plateaus
April 26, 2021Faculty Fellow Paul Delamater was recently featured on CBS17 discussing vaccination rates in NC. Both Delamater and Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson were also interviewed for a piece in NC Health News about vaccine slow-downs.
Carolina Demography featured on NPR
April 26, 2021Carolina Demography's Rebecca Tippett was featured on All Things Considered in an interview about the 2020 Census count and deployed troops.
Research on college students’ mental health featured on podcast
April 22, 2021First-year college students are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety significantly more often than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study is based on the experiences of 419 Carolina students, and reflects the challenge faced by colleges nationwide to support student well-being. Researchers from the Carolina Population Center and the UNC School of Medicine published the study findings March…
A public health prognosis
April 22, 2021Alyssa LaFaro, Endeavors, Monday, April 12th, 2021 Graduate student Rachel Woodul spent two years researching what might happen to hospital capacity during a pandemic. When COVID-19 arrived, she compared what her model — and others’ — got wrong to improve how we react to public health crises in the future. On March 11, 2020, Rachel Woodul…
Jess Stanford featured on IIANC podcast
April 22, 2021Jess Stanford, Demographic Analyst with Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center, was featured on the Independent Insurance Agents of NC podcast discussing the soon-to-arrive 2020 Census data and what it's likely to show in terms of our state's growing and diversifying population.
Carolina Demography’s research featured in NC Health News
April 22, 2021Carolina Demography's report on vaccine hesitation in NC was featured in an April 21, 2021 piece on NC Health News entitled "Coronavirus Today – Apr. 21 — Most COVID restrictions to be lifted in June if two-thirds of adults are vaccinated."
Carolina Demography’s research featured in WRAL column
April 22, 2021Carolina Demography's research on the educational attainment pipeline in NC was recently featured in a WRAL column by Mary Ann Wolf, the president and executive director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina.
“Geography of risk” impacts analysis of racial inequities in COVID-19 deaths
April 22, 2021April 5, 2021 COVID-19 has placed a disproportionate burden on communities of color, reflected in the higher rates of positive cases, long-term health effects and deaths. While public health leaders analyze and quantify these inequities, a group of UNC epidemiologists is concerned that surveillance methods do not fully consider structural racism’s impact on the geographic…
Whitney Robinson featured in The New York Times
April 22, 2021Faculty Fellow Whitney Robinson was featured in a New York Times piece on how epidemiologists are planning to vacation with their unvaccinated kids.
Manish Kumar to particpate in PAHO policy workshop
April 22, 2021Manish Kumar, the Senior Technical Specialist-Health System Strengthening in the USAID-MEASURE Evaluation project, will be participating in the kick-off policy workshop organized by the Pan American Health Organization. He also recently participated in the IS4H conference organized by PAHO and attended by the countries of the Region of the Americas. The conference report titled “From…